I used the Jelly for a while, mostly it worked very well, only a couple apps had layout issues. I think it was just slightly too small at 3", and 3.5 - 4" would resolve basically every app layout issue I had with it. My biggest problem with it was actually that the camera was awful.

No, I want the smaller bezels to enable a smaller physical device that keeps a ~4" screen. Ideally not exceeding the dimensions of the OG iPhone.

It’s the smallest option, so doesn’t really matter.

I just want the return of the Mini. Upgrade the display to 4".

Then it will go out of fashion again, and teeth will be the new tribal tattoo that people are stuck with, and the following generation will be all about smooth gums.

Imagine junkies of this drug would look like tarkatans.

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They still will.

From the thumbnail i thought the phone was wearing a puffy jacket.

But there is the possibility they could capture almost the whole small phone market, instead of competing against titans for a piece of the big phone market. I also don’t see how this is not still a big market that is being ignored. So many random trash phones that must be getting pitiful sales numbers, but they can’t make anything in a small size, like they used to do in huge numbers just half a decade ago?

I get that the Mini might not reach numbers acceptable for Apple, but for some random Android manufacturers, those same numbers would be huge, and they have basically no competition right now. The first company to offer something decent in that size bracket would have that whole market to themselves.

But no, i think they all just dream that they might beat Google and Samsung for the same 6.3-6.8" market and be rich.

I get it, and i guess the fault is on Google for not providing an alternative for such apps. Still a hack though, because such things don’t belong in the user’s notifications.

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I meant the actual physical screen part that they are producing, to use that same part for just a tiny phone.

Can someone turn that front small screen into its own separate phone?

If you’re used to Google Assistant in 2023, the bar for being amazed would be pretty low.

Would be better if it were optional. The little key in the status area is more than enough indication for me. A persistent notification is not a notification, it’s a hack.

Lameness is the most important part of the Google Assistant experience.

And i just want a tab bar on Android tablets/foldables like every other browser.

Sure, but those are tradeoffs that are necessitated by the size, so it just comes down to a consumer deciding if they value more the larger battery, or smaller size. Personally i put a lot of value in the smaller size, so would be very accepting of reasonable tradeoffs to achieve it.

I also hope Google (or any major manufacturer) finds its way to include a smaller option in future lineups. :)

There’s not any current flagship phone with (significantly) smaller dimensions, which is my main complaint.

My phone is an S22, for the singular reason that it was literally the smallest (Android) flagship phone available at the time. But it’s still too big.

However my actual phone is irrelevant, even if it would be a ZFold the point is that i will not change from it until I see a proper small option.

For me “small” would be 4-5.5", and i don’t consider the iPhone 15 Pro (or Pixel 8) to be small. I consider that to be a “standard” size these days (6"), where everything larger is “large” and anything in the missing segment of smaller would be “small”.