I miss compact mobile phones and I think I’m not the only

Recently, when I remembered how I liked Nexus 6, I realized that until the second half of 2010, the “Rule” was that cell phones had screens below five inches. The iPhone 5, so in 2012-2013, must have been my daily cell phone, had a 4-inch screen! This explains why 6 inches Nexus 6 seemed amazing.

But, as the years have already passed, surprise became an everyday life and ultimately lost its charm. I think about the mobile phones that I examined in recent years, and I would say that the standard in the screen is 6.7 inches. If I want to have a compact cell, then I need to go to models such as the iPhone or Galaxy S “Basic” (input models such as the iPhone 16 or Galaxy S25) to have a “small” screen 6.1 or 6.2 inches. How do we get to this?

Standardization of 6 inches

How to view the evolution of the main Android models can mean some methodological difficulties, I decided to consider the evolution of the iPhone. Well, the iPhone 5 had a 4 -inch screen, which, although, undoubtedly, it would not be the most suitable to see Netflix on the phone, I remember how good the text is. Two years later, in 2014, the iPhone 6 increased the size of to 4.7 inches, the “standard”, which remained for three years until he introduced the iPhone X, which, as I remember, sold Apple as the most remarkable evolution in the history of the iPhone (of course, the same thing is said about the iPhone 16 and will say something similar with iPhone 17), and well, well,, well,, well,, well,, well,, well,, well,, well,, well,, well,, well The screen was 5.8 inches. In 2016, Apple again increased the screen size of her phones to reach 6.1 inches with the iPhone 11, the size that supports on the iPhone 16.

Creating numbers, Apple increased the iPhone screen by 2.1 inches in seven years. This increase, obviously, was associated with an increase in the sizes of the iPhone and “standardization” of larger screens.

Now I want to clarify that Apple continues to have “compact” phones and next to the Galaxy SX (from the Galaxy S10 screen for 6.1 inches), The mainstream compact phones. Look at it yourself or at yourself, almost all the phones that you can buy in 2025 have 6.7 -kilogram, fantastic screens to see a tickte or Netflix to read It reads for a long time belonging New York Times Or my loved ones SubstrateBut it is terrible to keep them in the pocket pocket. Even worse if you are a woman and want to keep them in pantsField

I know that this is frivolous, perhaps the problem of the first world, but is valid from the point of view of a user like me. I enjoy almost 6.8 inches of my Realme GT 7 Pro, but I can’t send it to see 4.7 inches of my old iPhone SE. How I would like 5.5 -kilogram Android with the same force as my Realme. I know that the batteries for 6500 mAh and three modules of lenses require space, but OK can be with a small battery and two lenses (obviously, you need to be Telefoto). The only thing I could not sacrifice was power: Snapdragon 8 Elite or Dimallly 9400, no less.

I am not the only one who wants something like that. It turns out that in Japan a rocket – something, as well as the Japanese Amazon – produces phones with a 5 -inch screen. Perhaps this would be the worst merchant in the world, but with such a large number of phones, so similar, is it really for the production of the compact middle -rank -a frenzied idea?