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> People keep saying that and time and time again it's proven wrong.

Surely you agree there is an upper bound, though?



Sure. 27" is just too big to be practical for most.

What I was specifically saying is that people here keep calling 5"-6" phones "too big" yet the mass market keeps buying them, in huge numbers. I'm not sure if you can walk into an Apple Store and pick up an iPhone 6 Plus off the shelf yet or if they're still sold out.


Aren't we getting to the point where you don't have a choice, if you want a new phone? The market wants phones, not necessarily with a strong preference for the sizes being offered. I recently bought a new phone, and found my options getting quite limited if I wanted less than 5" screen size, and SD card. If I compromised on SD card, maybe there's more options, but all the main choices seem bigger in general.


There was a point where the market had a choice, much like when phones still came with physical keyboard. There was a long period where you could buy a phone with a keyboard and a phone without. People bought the phones without keyboard. There was a time when you could buy the phones with 3" screens, and people bought the 4". Then when 5" screens came along, people bought those. Then the 5"+ screens.

The people who want physical keyboards, SD cards, smaller screens, and removable batteries are not numerous enough to sell $600-$700 phones to, not with competitive specs. I live in the US and I would love a mid-size diesel truck-based SUV. Toyota even makes the 4Runner that meets those exact requirements, sold overseas. But I am massively in the minority in the US, so I Toyota won't sell me one.

It sucks, it does. But much like we don't say we have a "big screen" or "flat panel" TV anymore (now it's just a TV), a phone the same size as the iPhone, the Galaxy, the Moto X, the One M8, etc isn't really a big phone anymore. It's just a phone.


Agree, there's no choice. Everything you find today below 5" is budget phones that are so slow and have such a bad screen that they could almost make you vomit. It can't be impossible to make smaller phones fast and with high dpi, a few years ago all phones were like that, take iphone 4-5s, nexus 4 or htc 1S as example. I've been thinking it's better to buy a high end old phone than a small new one because there simply aren't any high end small phones to buy. And by small i don't even require super super tiny, just finding something slightly below 5" is very hard.


True; wanting a decent-DPI screen and fast CPU, while having a "small" screen, was also restricting my options.




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