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you have to compare the actual phone sizes, not the screen sizes. bezels have gotten smaller.

the article's "small phone" benchmark with a 5.4" screen is almost the same size in every dimension as your benchmark of the HTC 8x

https://www.phonearena.com/phones/size/HTC-8XT,Apple-iPhone-...

>>notato+(OP)
>you have to compare the actual phone sizes, not the screen sizes. bezels have gotten smaller.

This is true, and it's hard to fully assess without a tool like you linked, which is pretty neat.

>the article's "small phone" benchmark with a 5.4" screen is almost the same size in every dimension as your benchmark of the HTC 8x

But as mentioned, I don't consider the 8X to be small. It's a standard-sized phone in my eyes.

>>notato+(OP)
For me, screen size is what matters. Because I'm using screen. Small bezel is very bad thing, because it registers accidental touches now. Best phone in the history of mankind was iPhone 4S. Perfectly balanced. It's all went downhill since then.

>>notato+(OP)
Plus, the diagonal measurement doesn't reflect the width of the phone. Phones got taller/narrower probably about the same time as we started ditching physical buttons below the screen, so the screen size numbers went up without making phones wider, even if you keep the bezels the same size.

People comparing old smartphone diagonal screen measurements to modern ones as if they're equivalent is a huge pet peeve for me. Diagonals are a horrible way to measure screens.