Smaller Phones Preference

Users lament the large size of modern smartphones and express a strong desire for smaller form factors like the iPhone Mini or SE, highlighting benefits for pocket fit, one-handed use, and hand comfort.

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Sample Comments

mickotron Apr 7, 2022 View on HN

I can’t deal with phones that physically big :( if pixels were the size of the mini I would have bought it.

w0ts0n Sep 10, 2025 View on HN

I want a smaller phone, not a thinner phone.

mitchty Apr 7, 2014 View on HN

Yep, prefer the iphones smaller width to be honest. Not everyone has huge hands.

69Represente Oct 6, 2022 View on HN

you are not the only one. my pixel 4a has the perfect size in my hands and fit in my pocket.there was a project about making a smaller phone that got #1 in HN a few months ago. wondering what is the progress on it.

oblio Oct 20, 2021 View on HN

Was wishing for a smaller phone :-(

jghn Jan 28, 2020 View on HN

I find the contemporary "smaller" smartphone form factors to be too large already.

system2 Jul 14, 2024 View on HN

As in smaller or bigger? People are asking for a small phone, not bigger.

SllX Jan 7, 2019 View on HN

Some people like smaller phones. It’s not that hard to understand.

Khaine Sep 11, 2019 View on HN

I want a smaller size phone as well. Give me something the size of the original iPhone.

JohnJamesRambo Sep 3, 2019 View on HN

I wish they made something like that in an iPhone SE size. Every phone is just so huge these days.