• 👁️👄👁️
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    462 years ago

    People have been saying this for the last 5 years and will continue saying this for the next 5 years. They make less smaller phones cuz people don’t buy them

    • verysoft
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      372 years ago

      That will be a side effect of them locking abitrary features behind the bigger and thus more expensive models, if there was feature parity smaller phones would probably still be the norm.

      • @nexusband@lemmy.world
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        112 years ago

        Yeah, I only got the Pixel 6 Pro because of the zoom lense…i would not have chosen it otherwise. It’s too big…

      • @ayyndrew@lemm.ee
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        2 years ago

        There are some features that just can’t be equal between a bigger phone and a smaller one (or would require gimping the bigger phone) like a bigger screen (obviously), bigger battery and more size for larger camera sensors

      • Amilo159
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        02 years ago

        There is simply less space inside smaller phones to add same features and battery as a larger model.

        And then they can’t justify small model having same, high price as pro versions, so they cut features to go along with reduced price.

      • @HughJanus@lemmy.ml
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        02 years ago

        Not true. Many of the smaller phones on the market have additional features that the bigger ones don’t. Or at least they used to when they existed.

      • hiddengoat
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        -62 years ago

        If you can figure out a way to cram all of the shit in a 15 Pro Max into a form factor the size of an iPhone 4 not only will Apple suck your dick in the form of a well-earned half million dollar salary but you’ll likely get a Nobel Prize for breakthroughs in quantum computing and also making atoms smaller.

          • hiddengoat
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            -42 years ago

            Are you that dense?

            It’s a very realistic example of what you would have to do to cram all of the shit from a large phone into a small phone. The features that are cut aren’t fucking “arbitrary” unless you want to classify every feature difference as “abitrary” thereby making your definition of arbitrary meaningless.

    • @amelia@feddit.de
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      2 years ago

      As a woman: I’d love to use bigger phones - as soon as they give me pockets I can fit them into.

      It’s one of the reasons I find foldables so interesting. The Google Pixel Fold has the perfect form factor. If only it wasn’t so expensive…

    • cannache
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      12 years ago

      I feel like hopefully with a potential paradigm shift, maybe one SIM card and number shared between several devices, one large phone or tablet for work or movies and a smaller feature phone for on demand urgent communications, we’ll hopefully see the market for OEMs open up a bit wider and allow for further competition/collaboration across the whole portable electronics sector