• YeeHaw@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Not sure where you got the aliens conclusion.

    I mean, almost complete disappearance of smaller phones is kinda puzzling? The difference in screen/battery size between a 6" and a 6.8" phone isn’t that big, yet one will fit pretty much any pocket, while the other one won’t. I still find it counterintuitive that most people would put that much priority on gaining screen real estate over mobility. Another interesting thing is that these smaller sized phones are still present in flagship releases, so they’re kind of a premium feature now.

    • Gyoza Power@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      I mean, almost complete disappearance of smaller phones is kinda puzzling?

      Yeah, my bad there, I understood the previous comment as somewhat of a “Well I don’t understand how people can like big phones”.

      My guess is, as with many other things, corporations pushed towards a certain thing (big phones in this case) enough to make it the default and then the bigger audience just stopped caring as a result.

      It is interesting indeed, but I guess that’s just it, aside from the obvious fact that the bigger the space, the easier is to design stuff (my previous comment + better heat dissipation + more space for cameras), so probably a mixture of all of these things together and a couple more.