Comment by MetaWhirledPeas
9 months ago
> The hard reality is that there is no PAYING market for such a device
Show me the tiny Android flagship from the past 5 years that didn't sell well. (You can't, because there wasn't one.)
9 months ago
> The hard reality is that there is no PAYING market for such a device
Show me the tiny Android flagship from the past 5 years that didn't sell well. (You can't, because there wasn't one.)
> Show me the tiny Android flagship from the past 5 years that didn't sell well. (You can't, because there wasn't one.)
Yeah, because in the 5 years before that, the much MUCH more diverse Smartphone industry tried to make it work for several YEARS and failed.
Of all companies, Sony had the longest stamina, releasing 5 generations of 'compact' flagship devices.
If there would have been a sufficiently sized market for that, they would have continued and grown. In reality their business decreased every year.
Today the Smartphone is dominantly a media-consumption device, the only viable answer to "tiny Android flagship" is now a foldable like the Galaxy Flip.
https://www.androidauthority.com/asus-zenfone-10-review-3334...
According to this article
> The ASUS Zenfone 10 is a compact flagship Android phone from ASUS. Sporting a little 5.9-inch display
Though you have to argue it's not tiny. (Don't think it sold all that well, though, at least not mainstream.)
Look at the actual measurements. The Zenfone was roughly the same size as the standard Galaxy S series and iPhones at the time. Definitely not tiny, not even compact.
https://www.gsmarena.com/asus_zenfone_10-12380.php
https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s23-12082.php
https://www.gsmarena.com/apple_iphone_15-12559.php
It's not tiny, and it's also ASUS. They are relatively niche to begin with.
If we're counting 5.9" we might as well count the Galaxy S series at 6.1". (My choice of phone, incidentally.)
i was waiting to buy one until they fulfilled their promise of allowing unlocking the bootloader, which they never did...
Great phone though. Headphone jack. Great battery life. Fingerprint sensor. Minimal bloatware