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> The hard reality is that there is no PAYING market for such a device

Show me the tiny Android flagship from the past 5 years that didn't sell well. (You can't, because there wasn't one.)

>>MetaWh+(OP)
https://www.androidauthority.com/asus-zenfone-10-review-3334...

According to this article

> The ASUS Zenfone 10 is a compact flagship Android phone from ASUS. Sporting a little 5.9-inch display

Though you have to argue it's not tiny. (Don't think it sold all that well, though, at least not mainstream.)

>>neogod+T
It's not tiny, and it's also ASUS. They are relatively niche to begin with.

If we're counting 5.9" we might as well count the Galaxy S series at 6.1". (My choice of phone, incidentally.)

>>neogod+T
i was waiting to buy one until they fulfilled their promise of allowing unlocking the bootloader, which they never did...

>>MetaWh+(OP)
> Show me the tiny Android flagship from the past 5 years that didn't sell well. (You can't, because there wasn't one.)

Yeah, because in the 5 years before that, the much MUCH more diverse Smartphone industry tried to make it work for several YEARS and failed.

Of all companies, Sony had the longest stamina, releasing 5 generations of 'compact' flagship devices.

If there would have been a sufficiently sized market for that, they would have continued and grown. In reality their business decreased every year.

Today the Smartphone is dominantly a media-consumption device, the only viable answer to "tiny Android flagship" is now a foldable like the Galaxy Flip.

>>neogod+T
Great phone though. Headphone jack. Great battery life. Fingerprint sensor. Minimal bloatware

>>neogod+T
Look at the actual measurements. The Zenfone was roughly the same size as the standard Galaxy S series and iPhones at the time. Definitely not tiny, not even compact.

https://www.gsmarena.com/asus_zenfone_10-12380.php

https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s23-12082.php

https://www.gsmarena.com/apple_iphone_15-12559.php