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Larger phones have better battery life time.

Screen power draw and battery capacity scale as the square of the linear dimension. They largely cancel out.

However, all the other hardware are a fixed size so proportionally large phones have longer battery lives.

>>mouset+(OP)
Also panel manufacturer will not run limited run 5.4in panel just for a niche market and if they did cost would be super high.

Like internal component can be rearranged to an extent, and battery is a tradeoff, but the panel need to be one on the market, no demand, no panel

>>mouset+(OP)
Chinese manufactures has been using silicon carbon batteries with larger densities for long time, for example 6.3" vivo X200 FE has a 6500mAh battery which should solve small phone-smaller battery problem

>>coolg5+tt
Ya but manufacturers believe, rightly, that folks will always prefer battery life to pocket confort.

I say this as someone who clung onto his 1st gen SE until I got my current 13 mini