• Virkkunen
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    910 months ago

    Because those phones don’t sell. People that want small phones are generally a small group of tech enthusiasts, and those are not nearly enough to drive companies to design smaller phones

    • Kichae
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      10 months ago

      Capitalism: Where you have the freedom to choose to buy whatever you want, so long as it is what everyone else is buying, too.

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech
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      210 months ago

      My sister is definitely not a tech enthusiast and she still wanted a new sub-$400 phone she could use with one hand (even if it compromised thinness) and that had a 3.5mm jack and a good camera. After an extensive search, I needed to fail her one-hand requirement.

      I’ll wait for the Unihertz Atom L to come to the second-hand market but I’m afraid its users will be too happy with it to pass it on.