• shitescalates@midwest.social
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    9 months ago

    It’s still significantly bigger than the zenfone 10 or the iPhone and screen size matters more to some of us than the overall size.

    Call it a not huge phone or something. Compact should mean something.

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      9 months ago

      It’s still significantly bigger than the zenfone 10 or the iPhone

      Umm… sorry for bringing facts into the discussion but…

      Xiaomi 14: 153mm x 71mm (10,863mm² frontal area)

      iPhone 15: 148mm x 72mm (10,656mm² frontal area)

      Zenphone 10: 147mm x 68mm (9,996mm² frontal area)

      It’s less than 2% larger than an iPhone, which you purport to be compact. Is 2% larger really “significantly bigger” to you?

      It’s about the same as a 10 year old flagship phone. Stop looking at screen sizes and thinking “wow this phone must be HUGE!”

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        9 months ago

        6mm taller is a lot when you’re looking for a small phone, especially using one handed. 3mm is a lot for width too. Now compare it to a true compact like the iPhone mini or Sony compact series and it’s huge. Personally I would not call any of these compact, and if you are going to include a phone with a 6.3" screen, then it loses all meaning.

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          9 months ago

          Mate come on you’re moving the goalposts now. First an iPhone is compact now it’s not? Make your mind up!

          The iPhone mini is long gone and the Xperia compact series is long gone too. Nobody bought them.

          And no, the 6.3" screen doesn’t make it lose meaning. If the bezels shrink and the screen grows but the phone is the same size… then the phone is the same size.

          My laptop, thanks to modern slim bezels, has a 14.something inch screen in a space that traditionally would’ve had a 13 inch screen.

          Is it less compact because the screen is larger? Your argument is that the laptop has grown, despite the dimensions staying the same.

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            9 months ago

            Bezels stopped mattering a long time ago. The overall height of this phone is 6mm taller than the zenfone and 5mm taller than the iPhone.

            You’re saying if ford discontinued all models except for the F350, we could call the short box version a compact truck.

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              9 months ago

              It’s 2% larger than a phone you happily called compact.

              Stop moving goalposts.

              Bezels do matter. Their shrinking has allowed for large screens on phones without increasing the size. Comparing compactness of phones by their screen size rather than actual size is misguided.