Manufacturers don’t make displays under 6 inches available for purchase, with special cases (such as the iPhone Mini) being made under exclusive contracts. The best lead they have so far is to try to use displays designed for the front part of a foldable phone, but they’re yet to strike an agreement.

TIL that display manufacturers are also part of the reason why we aren’t getting small phones and why it’s probably even harder for manufacturers like Fairphone to make them.

  • helenslunch@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    They’re all phablets. People used to make fun of my Note 4 endlessly but it’s practically tiny by modern standards.

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      I had an og Dell Streak when it first came out. It absolutely blew people’s minds when they saw it back then.

      Looked up some old reviews of it and can’t beleive it was a 5" screen. In my mind, I remember it being so much bigger.