I’m using a Sharp Aquos Wish from 2022, because it’s 5.8 inches tall. It just barely fits in my pocket, but honestly is a bit uncomfortable. I wish I had a phone about 5.5 inches tall. Ideally with the latest android OS, a good battery, and wireless charging.
NOTHING like that exists! The closest is maybe the Unihertz Jelly Max, which is Android 14 instead of 15, and doesn’t support wireless charging. It’s also made in China, and comes preinstalled with spyware.
I could use GrapheneOS if I got a Google Pixel, but Google doesn’t have a line of small phones. They even developed foldable phones so they could make a smaller foldable phone if they wanted, but instead they created the abomination that is the Pixel 9 Pro Fold, which is a gigantic 6 inch phone when folded, and unfolds into a tablet-sized device. For the love of god, WHY!???
The whole point of foldables was to make phones smaller, not make them twice as big! Who was responsible for this?
I don’t know what to do. At this point I think I may never upgrade my phone. I’ll be using my Sharp Aquos Wish 10 years from now, and then abandon phones entirely when the network stops servicing Android 11.
First and foremost: nobody buys them. Manufacturers would build smaller versions of their flagships, but many would be severely limited or use lower-spec parts compared to said flagships. Or, the models that were high-spec like their larger siblings would cost almost as much, and so the average person will just get the bigger one because to most people, bigger = better.
It may not make sense to those of us more familiar with tech, but that’s not the point.
Also - nobody has heard of Sharp Aquos phones. I’ve got one of their TVs (from 2007 lol), but even I didn’t know they made phones until this post.
I mean, a bigger screen is objectively better for consuming content, plus the speakers are often more powerful. As a person with bigger hands I much prefer larger phones. I have the S21 Ultra and I really like the size.
They also typically have a larger battery and are able to fit in more features (like the S pen which I love, but they had to remove in this generation)
I wouldn’t say nobody, they are familiar to people living in Japan or SEA. If you’ve visited one of the countries they are sold in, you might have come across them (I saw them in a Tokyo department store).