I don't think anyone argues that bigger phones shouldn't exist, that they don't have plenty of good uses, or even that they shouldn't be more popular than small

I don't think anyone argues that bigger phones shouldn't exist, that they don't have plenty of good uses, or even that they shouldn't be more popular than smaller ones. I can think of more advantages of a bigger phone (for users in general) than disadvantages. What's irritating is just not having the choice, and especially not having the option to get an updated version of the thing you were already happily using. I grumble about this a lot myself (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10764713 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10764713). If typical mainstream phones are designed & built with a lead time of a year or more, & if a company was planning to release a small one soon, & that company was less secretive than Apple, we'd surely know about it already. There are rumours about Apple, and if they turn out not to be true, then we maybe have to conclude that no new small single-hander smartphone (as we know the device now) will ever appear again.