alt Hacker News47% percent of voters wanted a ~6" phone, and 12% of voters a ~7" phone.
I guess me and the remaining 41% of voters are still left wishing for 5" phones to make a comeback.
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lvspiff • today at 4:55 PM
What about those of us that were expecting an earpiece and glasses with AR for calling by now?
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nikanj • today at 4:59 PM
Every now and then some phone manufacturer mistakes online sentiment for actual demand and gets burned making a mini phone that won’t sell
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Supply chain has left us.
Since there's no new development happening with small phones, we'd have to settle for "older spec" screens (IE, new stock iPhone 5 screens, with none of the colour accuracy, frame-rate etc improvements from the last 10 years).
People don't like "old spec", so they'd probably not buy those devices.
If you're a small player, then you're downstream of the supply chain, you don't make the rules.
Chicken and Egg problem.
Ironically people think there's no market for small phones due to apple making a "small phone" which had a larger screen size than an iPhone 6.. which was when phones started getting too big for me, and many people I spoke to.
So, you make a small phone that isn't actually small, it sells like poop so you presume that people don't want small phones..