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Good to see there is a market for tiny phones. That gives me hope there's a market for sub 5 inch screen phones as well. Or something not bigger as a Samsung Ga
by Narretz 6y ago
Good to see there is a market for tiny phones. That gives me hope there's a market for sub 5 inch screen phones as well. Or something not bigger as a Samsung Galaxy A3 2017.
- lcnmrn 6y agoSony should bring back XZ1 Compact form factor. I use XZ1C daily, it's perfect for everything.
- zola 6y agoAgreed, the size is perfect and I find it sturdier then Z3 Compact. Aren't there more people like us to justify compact line?
- rospaya 6y agoI'm putting off buying a new phone because nothing compares to Z3C. Compact plus good battery life isn't rare anymore, it simply doesn't exist.
- cannam 6y agoI have an XZ1 Compact. It's great, works really well, appealing design, every feature I need - decent screen, headphone jack, camera button, fingerprint reader, feels fast, battery lasts for ages. It's an almost perfect phone. Just one problem: it's too big. Not by that much, but it definitely is. It's too big to use well one-handed, and it doesn't fit comfortably in a lot of pockets, especially since the corners are pointy. The perfect phone form factor - and this must surely have been plain to anyone who ever held one - was the Nokia Lumia 620, a Windows phone with 3.8" screen and a curvy back with exchangable double-shot plastic covers. It was a bit like an iPhone 3GS in shape but lighter and with a marginally bigger screen. The phone itself was a bit crap in various ways, but how strange that we should collectively ignore the obvious rightness of this design and go on making them worse and worse for years afterwards. (I'm being flippant, but somewhere in my head I am puzzled by it all)
- lcnmrn 6y agoXZ1 Compact dimensions with an edge to edge screen makes a lot of sense to me. I need some screen real estate to read stuff. For you maybe a Nokia N9 with edge to edge screen would work because it's smaller. I read and wrote this from Opera on XZ1C.
- eloisant 6y agoI don't know. All I want is an Android between 5 inch and 6 inch, something the size of a 2016 iPhone SE. But all I see is either gigantic phones, or 3 inches phones like this one so tiny they're barely usable as a smartphone. At that point why not just buy a dumb phone?
- happymellon 6y agoIt works better as a hotspot for the laptop when I need a bigger screen?
- hkt 6y agoThere are smart-dumbphones with features like hotspots. The Nokia 8810 has WhatsApp, 4g and WiFi hotspots, as well as lots of other features previously only found in low end bonafide smartphones. Added bonus with the Nokia I mention is that KaiOS (formerly Firefox OS) probably doesn't ship telemetry to Google.
- TomMarius 6y agoNo dumb phone has usable car navigation nor taxi and food apps
- MagnumOpus 6y agoThe 8110 has Google Maps as well as Uber. And food sites work just as well through their mobile web sites.
- happymellon 6y agoI did not know that. Thank you, most dumb phone also exclude high speed connections because they are cheap and this isnt a normal usecase.
- scarface74 6y agoIf battery life is only 9 hours for music playback, I can’t imagine how bad the battery life is when using it as a hotspot.
- nikanj 6y agoWe don’t know if there’s a market yet, the product has only just been launched
- MiddleEndian 6y agoThe phone was released in 2018. I have one and I've never met anyone else who has one, nor even talked to anyone online who has one. People in real life who see my phone are amused, but have no idea what the device is. So unfortunately, I think the market is small (although I also think they fucked it up by releasing it as a locked down "companion device" and only walking back on that half a year later).
- ezconnect 6y agoFor me the IPhone 7 was the perfect size at 4.7, my only wish is that they made it a bit fatter so it will be easy to grasp and not slippery and that also would increase the battery capacity.