Comment on I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand

Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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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  • idunnololz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This is not true at least not anymore. The pixel 8a is almost the same size as the pixel 8. If anything it’s a tiny bit bigger and heavier

    www.gsmarena.com/google_pixel_8-12546.php

    www.gsmarena.com/google_pixel_8a-12937.php

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  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’d probably have a Pixel if I didn’t have a habit of dropping my phone off the top of a ladder.

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• Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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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  • AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Here I am on my zenphone 10 wishing it was a little smaller

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    • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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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• PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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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  • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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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    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Do you carry a landline phone in your pocket whenever you leave the house?

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    • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      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

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• __nobodynowhere@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Still to damn big

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• mesamunefire@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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