The vanishing of the small high-end smartphone
The vanishing of the small high-end smartphone
The ASUS Zenfone 10 claims to be a pint-sized flagship, but the truth is there have been no truly small and powerful phones in 2023.
Manufacturers don’t make displays under 6 inches available for purchase, with special cases (such as the iPhone Mini) being made under exclusive contracts. The best lead they have so far is to try to use displays designed for the front part of a foldable phone, but they’re yet to strike an agreement.
TIL that display manufacturers are also part of the reason why we aren't getting small phones and why it's probably even harder for manufacturers like Fairphone to make them.
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Mainstream ruined everything. Like it always does.
You mean corporate greed? Yes
LOL, by "mainstream" you mean market demand? People use phones as computers now, people that want small phones are the 1%, Apple bought back small phones remember? The 1% loved it, the rest didn't. No money to be made = it won't get made.
Same as people who want unreliable SD cards and wired headphones jacks, by far the statistically insignificant minority. What people want as a whole is what influences production, not fringe cases.
Even I used to believe that there is a good demand, but sadly it's a very small minority.