The smallest new Android phone you can buy isn’t small at all

Where are the new phones that aren't the size of a compact car?

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[caseyjohnston]

superfob[/url]":46d73teu]What are the scenarios where a user doesn't have access to both hands?

For me, the most common is driving or walking while carrying something in the other hand. Both instances where I'd benefit from not using the phone.

For me it's mostly situations where I'm standing... holding a subway pole, carrying something else, holding a drink, or else riding a bike (with significant clearance of other people and obstacles), pointing at something, letting my arm swing free, eating cake or other foods. I have needs.

 

[caseyjohnston]

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Maybe the fact that women, who fill out more of the small-hands demographic, stereotypically don’t know or care what a powerful phone is plays a role here.


Aagh! More sexism!

No idea why you were downvoted into oblivion for stating the truth.

I could say that asians tend to have small hands, and yet when I see a Note 2, it's usually in the hands of some small asian girl.

See how neither "asian" nor "girl" mattered there?

Exactly.

(a) clearly neither of you "got" the sarcasm inherent in Casey's remark.

(b) obviously neither of you read the linked article to make any sort of connection there.

Hence the downvotes.

"Stereotypically" is the operative word there.

 

[caseyjohnston]

pavs[/url]":31ze1xxw]Very minor complaint about the article:

phones have settled along a two-dimensional spectrum: huge, expensive, and unwieldy, or small, inexpensive, and mediocre.

A two-dimensional spectrum would typically leave you two separate choices and could be partitioned into four quadrants: small&cheap, small&expensive, large&cheap, big&expensive. The problem is, then, that the spectrum is effectively one-dimensional, everything is along the small&cheap to big&expensive axis.

I think what I was trying to say was there is a two dimensional spectrum (large to small, high-quality to low-quality) and now phones plot along a line rather than scattering across the space. But I take your point, will make the necessary changes. Thanks!