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It's amazing that last year when I was looking for a new phone, the one I bought was one of the smallest I could find - asus zenfone. Same physical size as my precious sony, just a few grams heavier. I'm super happy with it and ny other phone seems super huge in comparison.

God I loved the Nexus 4, I had iPhones from iPhone 3G to 4 moved to a Galaxy S3 which I absolutely despised due to the bloatware.. sold that on eBay and bought a Nexus 4 16gb for £280... Had Nexus/Pixel branded phones ever since.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

But for gadget enthusiasts like me, Google had other plans: it’s arbitrarily pushing buyers to the ginormous Pixel 8 Pro instead, bragging about how its larger handset can handle niftier features even though both phones have the same cameras and chips.

Plus, Samsung doesn’t actually let you use it like a small phone by default — you’ve gotta jump through hoops to use apps on the outer screen.

It’s called Unihertz, and its Jelly line is tiny and has nifty features like a BlackBerry keyboard or programmable buttons and extra LEDs.

The project hasn’t had a meaningful update in five months, and team leader Benjamin Bryant admits he had to pause to look for consulting work on the side.

“Samsung Display US is willing to champion us; the challenge will be convincing the Korean HQ that we are a viable enough project for them to invest time and resources into,” Bryant tells me.

Bryant admits that, in general, the small phone outlook is “bleak” and that some of his prospective customers “will be forced to upgrade in the coming year.”

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Haven't thought of small phones in a while, unless you look into dumb phones, like Nokia 3310 reboot.

Great little phone, but does not have smart features that smart phones have.

Nice to see the sizes being compared, I was not expecting it, but wow have phone become huge.

I wonder if Pine64 or similar would create a small phone, they have launched phones before...

Currently in the process of switching to a degoogled OnePlus 5 which is only taking a long time because I'm having to find the right combo of system apps and replacements for googles apps which I've all but done.

Seriously if you're trying to make a google free phone try LineageOS microG. It's a spin on Lineage that gives you replacements for a lot of core apps like a location provider, and a load of other stuff you wouldn't realise wasn't in pure android.

Now all I need is a new battery and I have a FOSS( bar firmware, blobs, and magic earth, because no FOSS map app works well in the UK for me) phone.

But honesty I love this phone it's just the right size and it still has touch buttons for home, back, and recent apps instead of on screen ones( which I kinda hate). Paired with dual cameras and a gorgeous 1080p OLED display.

And you want to know the best part?

It only cost me £50!

Seriously if you're sick of modern phones and yern for the good old days this is a pretty great middle ground.