I considered getting a new phone today, with the stupid sales and all. My Pixel 4A is 3 years old and it developed a column of dead pixels a few weeks ago. I've already replaced its screen once, so it feels like its time.

Cue me realizing that smallish phones are, yet again, extinct.

Why does the phone industry have to through this giant phone crap all the time???

The one somewhat small phone (yet still bigger than the 4A) is the Asus Zenfone 10 and it's ridiculously expensive

I am old man yells at cloud but phones have been black mirror screens for 15 years now and the perfect form factor was figured out about 12 years ago.

I've been trying to get to a Nexus 4 experience for a decade, and the Pixel 4A was quite close. Why did they have to go and ruin it all over again. I don't even have small hands. How do people use these giant phones???

@mejs Is it possible to find old models that aren’t used (or are lightly used)? My iPhone 6 is still working, but I’m not sure for how much more. Why don’t they make smaller ones and just make them cheaper (I’d accept lesser performance, only one camera...)