I hear you, man. My dad (gen X) is like that, even today he still prefers the size of the iPhone 4. He’s got a 14 now, but laments the larger size quite often 😅
My personal daily is the Pixel 9 Pro XL, and my work phone is a bog-standard iPhone 12. I will absolutely concede the fact that the larger Pixel can be difficult to use with one hand, but IMO - with the keyboard’s one-handed mode and Quick Cursor installed - the benefits of the larger display far outweigh the difficulty of one-handed usage. Although with my work phone, I can whip it out with one hand and shoot a message or email to my coworkers far quicker than similar work on my Pixel… Though there are other difficulties with iOS in general that I can’t justify (such as the complete inability to scale things down to fit more content)… But that aside, the physical size of my iPhone 12 is quite nice for its intended purpose.
There is something to be said for the physical battery size in a smaller device, especially where battery life is a huge selling point these days. Having two flagships where size is the only difference, the smaller one is going to suffer in battery life. The iPhone 13 mini has the exact same specs as its larger non-Pro sibling (except a slightly lesser resolution, but retaining a slightly higher ppi), and its battery life just doesn’t hold up as well. That may not matter to some people though, and these things do charge pretty quickly, so I guess that’s subjective.
All that said - Unfortunately, we’re stuck in a world where profits reign king, and small phones (even with top-tier specs like the iPhone 13 mini or Zenfone 8) just don’t sell very well because companies have convinced people that bigger = better.
I hear you, man. My dad (gen X) is like that, even today he still prefers the size of the iPhone 4. He’s got a 14 now, but laments the larger size quite often 😅
My personal daily is the Pixel 9 Pro XL, and my work phone is a bog-standard iPhone 12. I will absolutely concede the fact that the larger Pixel can be difficult to use with one hand, but IMO - with the keyboard’s one-handed mode and Quick Cursor installed - the benefits of the larger display far outweigh the difficulty of one-handed usage. Although with my work phone, I can whip it out with one hand and shoot a message or email to my coworkers far quicker than similar work on my Pixel… Though there are other difficulties with iOS in general that I can’t justify (such as the complete inability to scale things down to fit more content)… But that aside, the physical size of my iPhone 12 is quite nice for its intended purpose.
There is something to be said for the physical battery size in a smaller device, especially where battery life is a huge selling point these days. Having two flagships where size is the only difference, the smaller one is going to suffer in battery life. The iPhone 13 mini has the exact same specs as its larger non-Pro sibling (except a slightly lesser resolution, but retaining a slightly higher ppi), and its battery life just doesn’t hold up as well. That may not matter to some people though, and these things do charge pretty quickly, so I guess that’s subjective.
All that said - Unfortunately, we’re stuck in a world where profits reign king, and small phones (even with top-tier specs like the iPhone 13 mini or Zenfone 8) just don’t sell very well because companies have convinced people that bigger = better.