Article 62XHS It’s settled: 6.1 inches is the ideal smartphone screen size

It’s settled: 6.1 inches is the ideal smartphone screen size

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I come to you today with good and bad news. The bad news is that small phones are dead. Apple is all but certainly killing off the iPhone Mini this year, and the smallest Android phone I've used all year is the 5.9-inch Asus Zenfone 9 - quite a bit larger than the 5.4-inch Mini. But that's what passes for small" now.

Here's the good news. We can at long last lay to rest the debate over what's the right size for a phone because I just made up an answer: 6.1 inches. All phones henceforth shall adhere to the new, entirely reasonable standard I have invented and come with a 6.1-inch screen. Take the Google Pixel 6A and its - you guessed it - 6.1-inch screen. Next to the 6.4 and 6.7-inch Pixel 6 and 6 Pro, it's downright tiny. It fooled me...

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