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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      Yea the a series is supposed to be the small, cheap and good line

      The non-a but not the Pros are smaller, but “affordable flagship”

      Pro series are the big premium flagships or Foldy phones (until el Goog changes their mind (again) at least)

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      the A series is smallish, the last small android phone was probably the Asus Zenfone 10, then Asus axed that line and merged the Zenfone line and ROG phone line and followed the ROG phones size. A phones however aren’t flagship so theyd fail the check.

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          hence why i kinda wanted to put “small” in emphasis, because small today isn’t the same as small before. its still small enough that it can be used in one hand though, just on the edge of it. Almost everything else is larger than it.

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      6a is pretty good and will be supported for a bit. Wish they were more repairable though…

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      Yep, just bought one the other day and it was about 1/8th" shorter than my previous phone

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      The phone on the left is a pixel 7 pro.

      So, yes, by modern standards.
      But no, as you can see by the comparison to the phone next to it.
      And that’s kind of the point I’m making.

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        So, yes, by modern standards

        My wife’s P7 and my P8P are both roughly the same dimensions as an old landline handset would be (my phone is maybe half an inch thicker than the landline at my work)

        Cell phones of the 00’s were small by phone standards, modern phones are closer to old landline handset sizes than 00’s cells, so I’d say the 00’s cells are the ones off the standard

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          That’s pretty clearly not the grievance I was complaining about, I’m pretty sure you’re intentionally missing the point so that you can be contrary