Small Phones are Dead and We Killed Them

More of a rant than anything. Small phones are dead and we all killed them

Phone provided by Asus for review.

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[SalemTechsperts]

For someone with tiny raccoon like fingers, I will keep my 13 mini going until it turns to dust.

[ashish_sunny]

Marques is the type of person who builds a custom coffin for a phone just to make a statement.

[jimv]

"Reachable from corner to corner and doesn't require huge pockets".

That's what I really miss. 😢

[mattsains]

The irony is that it’s really hard to find these phones on the secondary market because people are desperate to keep them

[awesomnessq]

I also think there's a correlation between people who get small phones and people who don't upgrade their phone very much.

[labibsafwan]

Marques: I’d like to order a coffin. (1.5 X 0.75) feet
Coffin shop: But for what?
Marques: It’s complicated

[Haru]

Marques got an excuse to use the coffin (casket) again lol

[Juliett-A]

As a woman with small hands, I did not ask for larger screens. My favorite phone I've ever had was a 5" screen with a slide out keyboard that I had in 2011.

[TarekMidani]

I'm proud to be one of the 5%. It's not that we have tiny hands. It's that our hands didn't get any bigger since 2014

[Sythemn]

Apple, Samsung, and Google, should release a mini like every 3-4 generations. And make it publicly known ahead of time that that's what they're doing.
Then it should actually sell enough to make financial sense and still provide the niche market an option.

[aaronlarson]

As a current 13 mini user, I’m sad. They should bring them back every like 5 years or something so once our current ones get really old and start dying we can get a new one.

[Andi]

The weird thing is that they invented foldable displays and didn't use them to reduce phone sizes. Instead these phones have the size of a small tablet when they are opened.

[laurence]

I’m a 6 foot 3 man with large hands and won’t give up my 13 mini until there’s a same size replacement. It’s still a gem.

[timosk]

Still rocking the 13 mini and won't 'upgrade' until its dead dead.

[seekittycat]

I'm a wee Japanese lady and work requires me to communicate using their app. Big heavy phones are killing my hands it's so tiring to communicate this way 😭

[pilcrow]

As a 13 Mini user, it pains me that we'll never get great small phones ever again... 🙁

[TechHunterOfficial]

Finally found another use for that coffin 😂😂

[HowMoneyWorks]

I'm still holding onto my 12 mini. I love it and my next phone will probably be the 13 mini (if I can find a new one on ebay). I personally love the small phones and I'm really sad the rest of you don't
😥

[Flackon]

Small phone lover here - I can’t help but wonder if the problem is they’re bringing out new small phones *every year* - I know my journey has been iPhone 5s, original iPhone SE, iPhone 7 for a month or two, and I’m now on the SE 2020. I don’t need all of the bells and whistles, so upgrades are more “when necessary” than “when the next shiny thing comes out”.

Maybe if a phone maker just did a new mini phone every 3-4 years, it would see higher sales?

[murtazazaidi]

This video feels like an actual funeral to me.
Small flagships will always be near and dear to my heart.
The world was cruel to you, minis...
You'll be missed, dearly...
I could just cry rn...