People donāt care. They buy whatever marketing tells them to buy. Lines around the block for the first iPhone when it was vastly inferior to the other phones of the day. Couldnāt even use custom ringtones. Knew then that people really are sheep.
I am never buying an expensive Smartphone again. Just something that works for emergency calls and 2FA and lets me buy a ticket for public transport. I am not gaming on it, I rarely listen to music with it, I only have about 6 apps on it in total. Give me a long lasting battery and let me replace it. The only thing that I need is a big screen, because I am handicapped and have bad eyesight and it is easier to see and use the software if it isnāt too small, otherwise I would prefer a smaller size and I give a f*ck how slim or thick the phone is or how water proof, non of my phones ever got even a tiny bit wet. In the 7 years I own my current phone I have taken about 50 pictures and 48 got deleted shortly after. I also do not need a lot of storage.
Smartphone manufacturers, if youāre reading this:
I spent 6 hours on google to find a phone with a screen smaller than 6 inch. I did find none (except an old iPhone, but I want android), so I had to buy one 6 inch. It is too unwieldy. I am annoyed.
There is a serious market for people like me. Do not look away. Somebody will buy these phones.
Also, by the way, itās not bad if the phones are a bit thicker.
Small phones donāt sell, thatās just the thing. Asus tried for a few years, it didnāt work and now the Zenfone 11 is going to be big again. Iām personally on the other end of it, Iām never going smaller than my current phone (Edge 30 Fusion) because I really like the big screen.
The thing is: Asus phone where never small.
I still use my Nokia N9 from 2012 daily as second phone. It has 117 x 61 x 12 mm. The Asus Zenfone 8 has 148 x 69 x 9 mm. Thats 25% higher (And also 25% heavier)
If you like big screens thats fine. There are plenty of offers for you and the market caters to you. I like small screens and device, because I tend to use complex Apps which require me clicking all over the screen. This is a hassle even with the Pixel 5 which I now got to use apps required (Banking, and so on) I have no options to buy such a device for year. Yes there are very few sometimes popping up like the Unihertz Jelly Star Star, but they all lacked features I consider essential.
(In this case update support, no OLED and Android apps can not deal with the low resolution display) Other features I miss but by now do not even dare to dream of: Real Multitasking, ability to fully customize the lock screen and menus (e.g. to red fonts for stargazing), weeks of standby time in flight mode and a single week in GSM mode, ability to work fine in 2G too because no copious amounts of data are sent in the background without asking you.
So yes there are plenty of options for the standard user, all with minimal differences. But for users like there are many in this thread, there are none.
I love it when uninformed troglodytes complain about a hole in the screen. They didnāt add a hold in the screen. The hole was already there. They just wrapped your screen around it for more screen. š
For me itās the small size. They are so big now I canāt fit them in my pocket or use them with one hand.
