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[–] espentan@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago (26 children)

Perhaps the perfect opportunity to stop buying Apple products?

[–] magic_lobster_party@kbin.social 73 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The options on Android aren’t much better, unless you go for some obscure manufacturer who won’t support the phone with updates 1 year after its life cycle.

Apple was for a while the only remaining flagship manufacturer who actually provided mini models. Ironic, because Android is supposed to be the alternative providing more options.

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[–] aksdb@feddit.de 39 points 1 year ago (9 children)

As if there are equivalent and small phones with Android.

[–] KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i wish fairphone filled that market gap, and throw in a headphone jack as well.

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[–] SeducingCamel@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My pixel 5 was awesome but then they started making their phones big again

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[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It's probably not gonna happen but maybe they'll fill that gap with the next iPhone SE

[–] xts@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sadly I think the latest rumours were that they’d use the Xr/11 chassis for the new SE. hopefully not because if they use the 12/13 mini… oh boy it’d be great

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[–] appel@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm hoping against hope that Google copies Apple and turns the Pixel 5 into a mold for the Google version of Pixel SE. I know it's not happening, but that phone is close to perfect for me, it's still my daily driver. Just give me a P5 SE with updated guts every two or three years.

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[–] pavnilschanda@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)

As someone with tiny hands and tiny fingers, I've been thinking long and hard about this and in the future, when my 13 mini lets out its last breath, I'll probably just go with a regular-sized iPhone and use Voice Control to swipe right and "go back" when I use it one-handed, since reachability doesn't address how I struggle to reach the far end of the screen with one-hand (I even have to struggle a bit with the mini). Sucks that I'll have to use voice control as a workaround, but I mostly bought an iPhone for the Apple Watch anyway.

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[–] mojo@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

Have you tried just getting bigger hands

[–] 2fat4that@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ll never part with mine!

[–] ares35@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

not to worry, forced obsolescence will take care of that for you.

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[–] ForestOrca@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd been using an iPod Touch 4G thru 7G, for my everything pocket computer. Apple killed the iPod Touch, so I migrated to iPhone 13 mini just over a year ago. Sorry folx, they prolly killed the 13 mini cuz of me. Any other Apple products you'd like me to latch onto, so Apple will kill it? :-(

[–] BertramDitore@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Lol I feel like this happens to me too. You like the fit of that T-shirt? Discontinued. You like the shape of those eyeglasses? Discontinued. You want a new car that starts up without 5,000 microchips? Haha too bad. You like buying phones that you can’t use without physically hurting your hands? Cool, enjoy the new 16 inch iPhone, it’s the smallest available. You’ll never leave it in your pocket or bag, because it doesn’t fit in either one. Oh and you need a speaker adapter to hear things without earbuds. That’ll be $2,500.

Sent from my dying iPhone SE 2020.

[–] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Android welcomes you brothers and sisters

[–] Drusas@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Android also has no small phones anymore.

[–] Asudox@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

There's Asus's ZenFones.

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[–] magic_lobster_party@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Which android phone is as small as iPhone 13 mini?

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[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The solution is obvious. Don't buy another goddamn iPhone.

[–] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There aren't that many Android phones that actually are smaller.

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[–] MrCharles@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Why? Why do they make so few small phones? We have the tech, and people like me really prefer it over the behemoths of the modern day. WHYYYYYYY?

EDIT: That gif came out WAY bigger than I expected. Apologies to your eyes, my friends.

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[–] GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I feel lurched.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can see the appeal of these little phones, but I think the batteries weren't as good as the other counterparts... so that aspect alone made me pass them.

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[–] misterundercoat@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I posted this from my galaxy s23 while wiping my butt with my other hand

iPhone 15 is just 1 mm larger than S23

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