• avater@lemmy.world
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    fuck you apple, I will use the mini until it dies and then I will replace its fucking battery and will continue to use it! Never ever will I buy another bigger phone than the mini.

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      I’m reading a lot of this and most of my friends got the mini. I wonder why it didn’t sell well? Seems like a lot of tech enthusiasts actually care about one-handed usability – but nobody else cares.

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        For most “normal” people, the phone is the only device they use nowadays.
        If your phone replaces a pc and a tablet, a bigger screen makes sense.

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        That seems to be the case: Ars Technica, Reddit, even this forum, are in favor of the minis. But the thing is most of us are tech enthusiasts who’d rather use our computers and tablets for a larger screen over the iPhone, so most of the population who would be drawn to the minis are concentrated there.

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        Not me, count me as an enthusiast who wants bigger phones. My ideal is a 2340x1080 screen at 6.7" or even 6.8".

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      Because those phones don’t sell. People that want small phones are generally a small group of tech enthusiasts, and those are not nearly enough to drive companies to design smaller phones

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        Capitalism: Where you have the freedom to choose to buy whatever you want, so long as it is what everyone else is buying, too.

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        My sister is definitely not a tech enthusiast and she still wanted a new sub-$400 phone she could use with one hand (even if it compromised thinness) and that had a 3.5mm jack and a good camera. After an extensive search, I needed to fail her one-hand requirement.

        I’ll wait for the Unihertz Atom L to come to the second-hand market but I’m afraid its users will be too happy with it to pass it on.

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          The mini’s only ever accounted for single digit sales percentages, so they never made any sense to sell once the terrible sales were realized.

          And then there was the generally mediocre user experience. It just puts a bad image on iPhone as a whole so apple is quick to drop it. I’m surprised they released a 13 mini, but there must have been some sort of break even they wanted to achieve.

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            Small phones don’t need to have a worse UX, a 16:9 5" screen, considered small by modern standards, is still wide enough for a one- or two-thumb keyboard. They just need to be thicker for the same performance and battery life, which is a sacrifice Apple didn’t want to make but Unihertz did. They basically integrated the corners and bezel of a rubber case (which most people would buy anyway) and instead of wasting the rear space on another layer, they filled it with the battery. Also, comfortable bezels, large tactile buttons, inherent waterproofness (IP68 even with headphone jack!) could make the Unihertz Atom L’s UX pretty good. It is also very powerful for the price point and display resolution so I think it will not become obsolete anytime soon, assuming Android 11 will continue to be supported or you can install one of the existing custom ROMs.

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    I’d rather have a smaller phone than the 13 mini, but the original iPhone SE is a bit too deprecated.

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    I know it’s no iPhone, but for all the Android small phone lovers out there, I can really recommend the Xperia series. Small package, headphone jack, SD card slot, decent camera and water resistant

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      I love the Xperia line but even the 5 series is almost an inch taller than the iPhone mini. It’s massive by comparison.

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    I assume they will roll another one out in a few years, I think everyone who buys a small phone hangs on to it for a long time. Before I bought a 13 mini my previous phone was the original SE (also small) so obviously I’m not upgrading every year.

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      That’d make sense, since it’s only a small group of people who’ll get it. Probably a phone they’ll release every 3 years or so.

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        It was 4 years between the original SE and the 12 mini, they released the 13 mini right away but I think that might have been because battery issues with the 12. Maybe the ghost of Steve Jobs begins to haunt Cupertino after a few years of Apple not releasing a smaller phone

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      I’m still running an iPhone 8; my partner’s broke so she upgraded to the 13 mini about 6 months ago, and now I have regrets that I didn’t as well.

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    It makes me so sad. As a certified short king it makes me sad that I’m gonna have to deal with the annoyance of giant phones in my little baby hands again sooner rather than later as it’s no longer supported…

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    I’ll keep my iPhone 13 Mini for as long as I can. After that, perhaps I’ll look for an alternative phone to iPhones. Thought about biting the bullet and getting myself a 15, but I’ll be honest, it feels like it’s going to be a point of regret for me.

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    I went from a 5S (first phone) to a X, to a 12 mini. The “standard” size still feels like the outlier to me. However, my eyes aren’t getting any better, and some apps don’t bother to scale as well on a mini, so I don’t think I’ll mind ending up with a slightly larger phone in the future. I want to wait until the non-pro iPhone lineup gets the ability to take “spacial video” first, though. I think that’s a feature I’d make frequent use of.

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    I’ll probably be gang buttraped by the Apple people but I heard the new (and last) Zenfone is nice and compact.

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    There are many good small phones from other companies, those small phone lovers aren’t exactly left in the lurch, they’ve got options, thankfully.