The 12 mini is not a successor to the original SE in neither concept nor positioning. The idea of the original SE was to reuse an old form factor and old produ

The 12 mini is not a successor to the original SE in neither concept nor positioning. The idea of the original SE was to reuse an old form factor and old production line to make a bottom tier low cost phone with newer internals. The iPhone 12 mini was a new design that made no compromises compared to its larger iPhone 12 cousin. Exact same hardware, camera, screen tech, etc, just a smaller size battery. I strongly disagree that “everything else is a phablet.” After shrinking some bezels the current iPhone lineup is very similar size to the iPhone 6/6S/7/8. The iPhone 15 is 5.81 x 2.82 x 0.31 inches The iPhone 6S is 5.44 x 2.64 x 0.28 in I realize that fractions of an inch make a big difference on mobile devices but that’s still not a whole lot of change. Under 10mm of additional height and under 6mm of extra width.