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I complain every day that there are essentially zero android phones that fit in my one hand any more. Everything is larger than 6" these days

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You should check out the pixel 4a. Small phone (which I strongly prefer), very cheap, and just a very good Android phone overall.

I just wanted to second the recommendation for the pixel 4a. I do a lot of work on my phone so it ended up being a bit too small for me, but it was definitely: inexpensive, had a nice camera, and was very portable. Also Google Fi has been really helpful for someone like me who takes a lot of overseas trips, really removes the headache from having to hunt down a sim without a working phone in a foreign country.

Has been impossible to buy new in my geography for 6 months already. I had my old one stolen in September and now doomed to the >6" life it seems.

The pixel3 is decent and the beta version of the new android 12 can be installed easily enough.

It's already nearly halfway into its pretty short support lifetime though

Diagonal screen sizes are not directly comparable since screens have been getting taller.

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.

I was thinking this too (and have the same complaint you do), but I think the parent was talking about nobody complaining about the thickness of the phone, not about the other two dimensions.

The thinner it is and the larger it is, the easiest it is for the phone to slip from your hands and the screen to break.

Got to keep people spending money.

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