The hero image with (what I can only assume is) an NBA player's mammoth-sized hands holding this absolutely not-compact phone really shows the dichotomy between wanting to sell a small phone but not wanting to actually make one.
there used to be a time when choosing a phone depended on its intrinsic value. But nowadays, the value you get from your phone depends on external factors, such as the cloud provider, the synergy between the phone and the rest of your computer setup, and the overall support you get from the company. I think this is the part where all android manufacturers get wrong: they focus so much on the intrinsic value of the phone without working on its extrinsic value within an ecosystem.
Whatsapp / iMessages and iCloud Password are even worst.
https://support.google.com/photos/answer/10502587?hl=en
There are also apps that allow you to use Android phones as a webcam, but no it won't be as seamless as Continuity Camera.
Android and mobile linux phones can do this with KDE Connect with Linux computers. I think you can do this between two computers too. Maybe KDE connect also exists on Mac?
Maybe I'm an outlier, but "ecosystem integration" for me means that my phone displays a google calendar and I have access to a non-gmail IMAP account. Phone is never paired with a computer and as far as I remember I could access photos in iCloud via a browser without a mac...
Yeah, that’s a normal sized phone.
Remember talking about All old using models with small hands to make the original iPhone look bigger? Nothing ever changes. Heh.
https://www.phonearena.com/phones/size/Asus-Zenfone-10,Apple...
Zenphone 10: H: 146.5 mm W: 68.1mm D: 9.4mm
It's basically the same size as an iPhone, ignoring screen size
For the record though, if you actually want a small phone, the Unihertz Jelly 2e came out recently, I've been tempted by that