Just finished watching MKBHD’s video “Small Phones are Dead and We Killed Them” yt indivio

I’m wondering, why is it that people buy big phones. Is it a conscious decision? Something that just unconsciously happened while selecting a phone? A lack of choice? What?

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    8 months ago

    To me, it’s always a lack of choice first, budget constraints second. I personally despise a lot of design choices of smartphones, such as touchscreens (they’re battery drainers), lack of physical keyboard and a “make it as flimsy as possible” mentality

    A Moto Droid 3 with more up-to-date insides (a midrange spec from 2018 is more than enough) would be an instant buy for me.

    I currently have a Galaxy S8, I find it stupidly and needlessly big, but I got it used for cheap and I use the camera a lot, which was the main reason I bought it. Before that, I was using a Xiaomi 6X (MiA2), which was pretty much the same size as the S8, until the USB port got fucked up