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

• RedditWanderer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Each fleet has its flagship lol all companies are flagships.

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  • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    And no phone manufacturer has ever called their small phones their flagships, so for to OP to say they miss them, is them not actually knowing what the term is.

    Can you provide an example of a phone that fits OPs definition as being sold as a “flagship”? Because OPs arguing for something that’s never been done before.

    Flagships CAN be small, but it’s never been done in history before, still waiting for an example, I’ve asked twice now. Because OPs barking up the wrong tree. That’s the issue here.

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    • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Minimal company’s flagship phone is the minimal phone

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• PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Lol who said I wanted “the smallest and most compact”

  You’ve lost the plot here, take the L

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  • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Does “fit in your hand” not mean small and compact?

    I’m not the one using the term flagship to mean a non flagship phone. You’re trying to change established definitions and conventions.

    You want a fancy small phone, no phone manufacturer has ever called a phone that fits that description as a “flagship” so to say you miss the. Is just straight up bullshit and you being an idiot and not using established definitions correctly.

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    • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Not only is that laughably not true

      But even if it was true, it wouldn’t mean anything because being a flagship phone isn’t about size, it’s about showing off your tech.

      But like I said, I don’t have to get hypothetical, because phones this big weren’t considered flagships in the past, they were considered “notes” and “tabs”

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• sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You aren’t wrong, and I’m not sure why the other person is arguing with you. Seems like that Monty Python sketch about arguing.

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  • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    He is wrong.

    I’m asking for small flagships.
    They used to make small flagships.

    Flagship doesn’t mean biggest, it means best.

    If settle for a small non-flagship phone with a flagship camera pod and display tech. But they don’t make those either.

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    • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They used to make small flagships.

      When, you keep saying that, but flagships have always been large and fancy. Can you provide an example? Because what it seems from every explanation you’ve made in this thread, you just don’t know what the term flagship means…

      Sounds like you just need to learn words properly, the only one wrong here is you using an established term incorrectly and are conflating a small phone as a “flagship” which has NEVER been the case. Please provide an example of a flagship being small and compact, I would love to see how you came to fuck this well established term up so horrendously.

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      • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        dude just Google “flagship meaning”

        the best or most important thing owned or produced by a particular organization.

        Theres a company called The minimal company, their best and most important product is a small “minimal phone”. That’s their flagship phone. It’s not hard to understand

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      • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Let’s compare the current day top dog, Galaxy S 25 ultra, against 5 flagships from different brands in 2012, including Samsung’s own:

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        Some of these had bigger phones like the Galaxy note, but these were flagships for their brands. These were the poster boy devices each brand trotted out to show off their capabilities. These were flagships.

        And this is just Android phones, I’m not even considering iPhone or windows phones.

        So get fucking wrecked. When they made phones as big as modern day flagships 15 years ago, they didn’t call them phones, they called them “notes” and “tabs”

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