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It’s 5.9”. An iPhone is… 6.1”.

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.

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It’s even sillier than that, it’s the exact same size as an iphone:

https://www.phonearena.com/phones/size/Asus-Zenfone-10,Apple...

So not only is it not smaller, it must have thicker bezels.

iPhone 14 : H: 146.7 mm W: 71.5 mm D: 7.8 mm

Zenphone 10: H: 146.5 mm W: 68.1mm D: 9.4mm

It's basically the same size as an iPhone, ignoring screen size

The 3.5mm width is some difference.

They are wasted by the mobile UI anyway. /s

And this particular metric is not a percentage increase in comfort or speed of operations, on the modern phones it can be above/below usability threshold. For example I have a droid phone with a width of 74 mm. But I can't reach with my thumb to the opposite side of the screen, and seems that making phone narrower by 5-6 mm would just about solve this. Thankfully droid OS doesn't require me to do this, but on the other hand I read that in iOS this is a key, most important gesture - "back". And UI button for this operation is in the most unreachable spot on iOS, in the top left corner usually. So users practically forced to do a gesture which is hard to do on a bigger phone.

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