I vacillate between "This is just sexism at work making phones for men's hands" and "This is just capitalism at work, making phones so large they're easily dropped and broken, necessitating new purchases."

Probably both

Also bring back mandatory 3.5mm headphone jacks.

Phones need to stop being 20:9 and 22:9.

The "size" is measured by the diagonal, and the width stays the same while the height gets longer, because increasing the height does more for the diagonal than increasing the width does. The keyboard hasn't gotten any bigger; in fact it feels smaller.

You need to choke up on the phone and stretch just to open the toolbar (with the size of my hands, if I have to do it, everyone has to do it). Holding the phone, it always wobbles because it's not balanced in your hand, the center of mass is past your fingers. You even need to glance up and down to look at the whole thing. At a certain point the folding phones in folded mode will be the only thing that feels reasonable and proportional to use.

But hey, "everything is scrolling now". Everyone buys the long phones, so naturally that must be what the market wants. I guess you can consume more scrolling content and spend more of your time swiping just to feel like you're moving towards what you want. Oh and everything is video now. It's just the new codexes that we need to accommodate. Ultrawide. If it's not optimized for ultrawide it's not modern. That's why we make sure there are unused black bars on the side of each and every video because the phone is so long. Bezels. We've got to make the bezels finer.

16:9 devices were the peak. Every year we stray further from God's light (the golden ratio).

I just miss having a physical keyboard on my phone. Not like a blackberry, more like this phone I had with a slideout keyboard like 14 years ago. That shit was so dope, dude. It had arrow keys and a big round enter button, it was easy to play ROMs with.

But no everything has to be a fucking touch screen now. Even the fucking bedside lamp I have uses touch buttons instead of actual buttons, which only work half the time you press them and are super easy to hit accidentally.

I wish even 6" was an option, these days 6.3" is considered small. I would've pogged up for the Zenfone 10 if the software support wasn't so decroded

How about: we need a selection of phone sizes?

i had to get a new phone recently (old one died, rip prince of 5+ years), and I got one that was a couple years old partially because they got bigger with each release (and partially bc it was cheaper). like, how r they gonna continue the trend of increasing the size with each phone... just buy a tablet if you want a huge screen....

Since phones are used more and more for streaming video content, we're never going back to small screens because they believe everyone wants a miniature movie theater screen in their pocket

I have yaoi hands and love my gargantuan pixel 8 pro

Samsung Galaxy S4 was the perfect phone size. Just make it a little bit thicker for a bigger battery/camera and put a modern chip in it and it's perfect.

Well, good news for you! They now fold in half.

The phone I had before my first smartphone, a Motorola Razr V3, was 2.1 × 3.9 × 0.54 inches

I remember thinking that my first smartphone, the iPhone 4s, was enormous at 4.54 × 2.31 × 0.37 inches.

The current iPhone is 5.81 × 2.82 × 0.31 inches.

But at least the least important dimension keeps getting fractionally smaller I guess?

You can't have bigger battery life but a smaller phone. That's the whole reason they're bigger!

Some phones*

I need my XL models.

-Sincerely, someone with large hands.