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It is very hard to find small and powerful Android phones nowadays. Post new phones are at least 5.5" which I consider already too big. I eventually bought an
by elcomet 7y ago
It is very hard to find small and powerful Android phones nowadays. Post new phones are at least 5.5" which I consider already too big.
I eventually bought an old Galaxy A5 2017, which is slow, but has a confortable small screen.
- vesinisa 7y agoIf it's just about the fact that larger phones generally also have very high dpi (text is too small and hard to read), you can use Android's native dpi scaling to make the phone screen "smaller". I personally can not use newer M-XL size phones on factory settings because the text is too small to read. But then I just scale the display to lower the dpi to a comfortable level in Settings.
- freehunter 7y agoThis is an important thing to note and I'm not sure designers take it into account often enough. I know I'm guilty of designing an interface that looks good on an iPhone 5s, SE, 6, 6+, and X with default settings, only to watch someone with an 8+ have their scaling turned way up and blow my user interface out of the water. Alternatively I had an app that worked well on all screen sizes, but one of my friends showed me it wasn't working because they had increased the size of their keyboard and the extra-large keyboard was covering one of the buttons.
- G4E 7y agoExactly. I had high hopes for the sharp r2 compact, which has current high performance specs in a small form factor, but sadly it won't be available in western market. It looks like there is also a demand for small size smartphone on the asian market, so we might see some new ones soon ?
- pmontra 7y agoSony Xperia X Compact here (2016). A little too thick but lightweight. Newer models weigh more.
- sjustinas 7y agoI'm on the same boat: a year ago, I bought a first-gen Pixel. Back then, Pixel 2 was already out and even Pixel 3 was on the horizon, but 5" is the absolute maximum size I can comfortably operate using one hand. Hell, I would even take a 4.5" phone with decent specs. My old Moto G was incredibly comfortable.
- shawabawa3 7y agoI held off upgrading from pixel 1 to 3 for ages because I didn't want the phone to be bigger Turns out that while the screen is bigger, the phone is actually slightly smaller. It just has a longer screen and less bezel
- duxup 7y agoThe Pixel 3a is admittedly just outside your size limit, but it's a capable phone at a good price. Personally I find it right at the limit of a "taller" format phone that while still big-ish, is quite manageable.
- scurvy 7y agoSony? Their entire existence seems to be around making compacts with flagship specs (even if the latest iteration skips a compact model).
- ojagodzinski 7y agoSamsung S10e and others from: https://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?nYearMin=2018&nHeightMax=150&nWidthMax=72&nThicknessMax=8&fDisplayInchesMin=5.1&chkUSBC=selected&sOSes=2 https://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?nYearMin=2018&nHeightM...
- butteroverflow 7y agoWhich is 5.8"? Here's the correct search filter: https://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?nYearMin=2018&nThicknessMax=8&fDisplayInchesMax=5.5&chkUSBC=selected&sOSes=2 https://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?nYearMin=2018&nThickne...
- robertoandred 7y agoThe S10e is the same size as an iPhone X. Not small at all.