I know I have small hands but c’mon. Flagship phones these days are strait up small tablets, not even what we’d have called on phablets 15 years ago.

I know it’s what people buy, but I’m still sad that if I want a phone that small then I have to deal with camera and display a couple gens old

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    Well, yes.

    However I do feel that top vanilla Samsung (S2x) and iPhone (normal Pro, especially since the 16 has the good snappers like the big model) at least still fit the bill of being natural one-hanged-phones.

    Even Sony ships of flags (1 … of which “1 IV” runs Lineage OS!) while big arent as wide and much more handy.

    But, I cannot help myself thinking that there must be some market sense in like actually small but premium phones. Something like a 4.2" slab with a 4" screen (thin bezels) and proper cams.

    Since shitty versions exist, it must be just less profitable for the big brands to get in to (and phone startups can’t make much difference until Linux phones come of age to handle the software side of upgrades and security/privacy).

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      No way. I have an S24, and this thing is huge compared to my S10. Which was already bigger than I wanted. The last phone I’ve had that I liked the size of was the S6.

      I definitely would love a 4.2" slab.

      I thought about the 1 IV, because it still had a headphone jack. But there was a deal going for the S24. That’s how they get ya.

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        Yes, Sony phones are a bit expensive.

        I’m not sure what are you taking about the size difference between S10 & S24 tho … they are the same size (if anything one could say S24 has gotten smaller)?
        Did you per change purchase the vanilla S20 but the plus S24 model? :)

        Via gsmarena.com/size-compare-3d: