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Thinking about the behavior in the mobile market drives me insane. When the tech is hard to make small, we go for the smallest possible devices. When it's easy

Thinking about the behavior in the mobile market drives me insane. When the tech is hard to make small, we go for the smallest possible devices. When it's easy to make small we go for the biggest possible devices in the name of screen size. When storage is finally pennies per GB with super small media, we loose removable media slots and accept paying $100 per storage tier and then pay even more to store everything in the cloud. I'm hoping eventually we'll hit a cycle where 4" screens, removable batteries, removable SD and hardware keyboard comes back in style and is available in an unlocked phone that can run Cyanogenmod. If that happens, I'll buy 3 of them with a life time supply of batteries.

marcosdumay 10y ago
My current phone has the optimum width and height to fit in a pocket. I wouldn't look for any one with a very different size. Although it could be thicker if it comes with some gain, making it thinner wouldn't be of any use for me. I also would loss nothing if it weighted twice as much. By the way, it has a removable battery and SD. I'd get a hardware keyboard only if it did not reduce the screen. But that is me. My wife, for example prefer smaller phones because she does not carry it in a pocket. Outside of the Apple realm, phones have some diversity. And while manufacturers completely refuse to offer some features (like big batteries) for reasonable prices, one is able to get approximately what he wants.