So I did a deep dive, long story short, when Gorilla Glass makes a stronger glass, the phone makers make the screen thinner, so we are back to square one.
I don't remember anybody ever complaining about the size of their phone. And although I have literally never heard it, I could in theory believe a small minority of people might want a thinner phone if competitors were able to do it.
I don't buy that the phone manufacturers couldn't work together and agree to release "thicker" phones with reasonable battery though, as they do on just about every other industry feature.
I assume it's just an excuse for them to further close the abilities of right to repair where serviceable or otherwise reasonable batteries would lead to less new phone sales. Exactly the same situation as the screens, I'm sure. Just keep quiet about these things though when marketing this.
Got to keep people spending money.
The 16:9 Galaxy S6 was 5.1 inches. The S22 has a 6.2 inch diagonal screen, despite being wider by only a millimeter than the S6.
While mid-rangers have been getting larger, only the actual display has grown larger on the flagships, and not the chassis.
Id prefer a slightly thicker phone with a slightly smaller screen, the better to actually fit in my pants pocket.
And on weight, I find the 13 pro to be ok but the 13 pro max was too much. So what they have now is the limit of what I want the weight to be.
Give me a notched phone roughly the size of a SE, ~2x as thick with a slide keyboard and i will go back to android... basicly bring back the moto droid line!!
> I never use the phone on the table anyway so it's no issue.
Just like when Apple never seemed to test how left handed people use phones, no issue to you isn't really the point.
It's the best phone I've ever had.
With a 512GB SD card, and a built-in fat battery, I never have to worry about running out either of storage or power. It's liberating.
And the camera is good enough that the storage does fill up.
The casing should simply be built in so the cool coloring, texture or material the phone offers can actually be seen
While there are more sophisticated models in this space, for something of a budget oriented phone (which i'll probably use until the battery degrades, seeing as unfortunately it doesn't have a removable one), it's both usable and feels rugged enough.
No longer do i have to worry much about things like dust/sand or even splashes of water and such. It actually fell once from about 1.5 meters out of my pocket and on stone bricks, while i was doing pull ups. I'm sure that the situation would have been worse if it had landed screen down, but even after landing on its corner, there was no visible damage afterwards.
Plus, after using it for a while, i've found that the larger form factor doesn't bother me in the slightest, so i'm not exactly sure why modern phones are so obsessed with being thing. Then again, i also enjoy the form factor of ThinkPads, while there are people out there who call them ugly and too bulky.
This year alone, I have had 3 phones slip or drop 2-3 ft(< 1m), from my pocket or hand, onto carpet and sand, and all came up with cracked glass, one with a screen that no longer lit up.
Elegant fragility is the engineered intention, IMO For truth in advertising, they should rebrand it "Fragile Flower Glass"©.
From the outside, it looked like it should be pretty tough, yet when it fell off of a table and on the floor (not even hardwood, i think it was linoleum), it just straight up died.
I bet that the thicker plastic frames of those old phones still absorb impacts better than most of the modern thin ones, yet a proper rubberized frame/case will almost always be even better.
Plus, IP68 (which was described in IEC 60529 in 2001, a few years after that first phone came out) now being available in consumer hardware at an affordable price point is pretty nice!
So it's mostly a matter of supporting the manufacturers who create the devices that you actually want. Maybe shopping around for a phone with a removable battery AND the aforementioned ruggedness would be a good move on my part.
My wild theory was the key was an aluminum (alloy) and it corroded creating corundum since there was no way a key could scratch the screen. I was just trying to console myself that I wasn't stupid and careless there were bigger forces at play.
I picked it up dreading a shattered display but there wasn't a scratch on it. The steel bezel was damaged though.
Gorilla glass 1 with the thickness they used was indeed awesome.
Making glass thinner would actually make it less likely to break as it allows a little more flex to the glass. Making it thinner might compromise some other property of the glass so I’m not sure why they don’t use super thin glass.
Most phones have screen protectors which more than double the thickness of the screen glass - that said, screen protectors are cool in that they are disposable in the event of scratching.
But I would much prefer a Pixel phone that's thicker if that means it has better battery life and reception. The Pixel 6a THIC.
Complaining about phones getting thinner is a bit odd when iPhones haven’t gotten thinner in ~5 years.
6.8” display, 20.8mm thick, 492 grams, 13,200mAh battery.
https://m.ulefone.com/power-armor-13.html?PageName=specs
My iPhone 7 battery lasts about two hours of mixed use browsing / app use. Will get the battery replaced when the tank arrives, I’m just over Apples lack of options with regard to battery size at anything like a reasonable price.
Friend of mine was really happy with his Ulephone, great value if it works for you.