Google Pixel 3 small size

[Almeuit]

Man I remember one CEO of a major Cellphone manufacturer proclaiming 3.4" as all you needed.

To be fair -- I remember people saying "You will never need 2 GB of RAM on a PC!" or "You will never need more then 100 GB on a hard drive!" -- Obviously tech keeps going .

 

[Kalvin Kerns]

Was it Microsoft? - oh wait - you said MAJOR manufacturer - my bad.

Lol

 

[Golfdriver97]

To be fair -- I remember people saying "You will never need 2 GB of RAM on a PC!" or "You will never need more then 100 GB on a hard drive!" -- Obviously tech keeps going .

As HDDs are rapidly approaching nearly a quarter of a Petabyte

 

[legion125]

Looks tall but narrow. It's actully narrower than an iPhone 6/7/8 series. I'm going to Best Buy this weeking to check one out. Was told they should be on display by Friday.

 

[Kalvin Kerns]

Looks tall but narrow. It's actully narrower than an iPhone 6/7/8 series. I'm going to Best Buy this weeking to check one out. Was told they should be on display by Friday.

Again, with a case on it won't be too small/narrow.

 

[Robisan]

Again, with a case on it won't be too small/narrow.

Yes, but the case isn't going to increase the width of the keyboard. That's a real problem with narrow screens.

 

[Dean Liensdorf]

I had an iPhone 5s and loved the form factor. For work I use an iPhone 6s and it's ok. My personal daily driver is a pixel 2 and I like it cause I like being able to use it one handed. I have an Android phone with a 5.5 inch 16:9 and it's not really friendly to one handed used.
It depends on how you want to use your phone and interact with it. If one handed use is your thing then the narrower device allows for that imo.

 

[Kalvin Kerns]

Yes, but the case isn't going to increase the width of the keyboard. That's a real problem with narrow screens.

I haven't considered that. Good point I guess.

 

[ctk4949]

I thought the whole point of smaller phones, was to use it one handed. How small are your hands if you cant comfortable hold it in one hand?? Using swipe texting is going to be ezpz with this phone.

 

[sulla1965]

I actually can't go back to 16:9 phones. I tried going back to the pixel XL and found it too bulky and brick like despite it's small 5.5 screen. The s9 has ruined me for going back to the older style phones. The pixel 3 looks, feels like a ever so slightly smaller s9 which is a very good thing IMO.

 

[Manoj Vemuri]

It looks cute and is a perfect fit for my hand anyway.

so pixel 3 wins it for me in its size range

 

[DJCBS]

To me it's already too big. OEMs should provide a 5" tops as the "small" (which I call "normal sized") option. I don't need a dinner tray in my pocket.

 

[ChuckG73]

I had the Sony Xperia Z3 and loved the size of that phone. There is no way the Pixel 3 is too small.

 

[1901Madison]

It wasn't all that long ago that a 5.5 size phone was the largest you could buy and was considered huge and unwieldy.

Wasn't the first ever Note 5.3"?

 

[sunburned]

I prefer a smaller form factor, I think the XL size phones are ridiculous and unwieldy. I should be able to mostly use my phone one handed, and the bigger you make them, the more likely we are to drop them when trying to stretch a thumb across the screen. Plus they don't fit in pants pockets, they don't fit in running armbands or cycling jersey pockets, and they look ridiculous on car mounts.

Why are people complaining about the small size of the normal Pixel when you have the XL option??? If you want a giant phone, buy the giant phone and let the rest of us buy smaller ones.

 

[raqball]

I remember when the HTC EVO came out.. People were saying it was ridiculously large sized and it had a 4.3" screen... LOL

 

[ChuckG73]

I still ha e the Nexus One and talk about a small phone

 

[mikekazz]

No.

No, No, No, No, No, No.

It's my opinion that that phones are too big. I like phones that actually fit in my pocket and that I can use with one hand. I don't understand why everyone insists on oversized phones. They look good on display at retail stores, and may impress your friends, but in day-to-day use they are annoying to use. Thankfully, Sony makes their Xperia "Compact" line of phones.

 

[Topweasel]

To be fair -- I remember people saying "You will never need 2 GB of RAM on a PC!" or "You will never need more then 100 GB on a hard drive!" -- Obviously tech keeps going .

Yeah most of those are out of context and heck the last spindle drive I got was 10TB, but still people even with a well bloated Windows 10 install could get away with using a machine with only 100GB. The closest to an actual statement was Microsoft saying you didn't need more than 640KB of ram. But that was missing the context of the time. Their OS wasn't multitask capable and was really a 8bit OS at the time, so no application could actually address more than 640KB of memory making people selling systems with more pointless.

Job's on the other hand basically allowed the growth of Android by deciding almost unilaterally that they had found the perfect form factor for smart phones and that they were not changing. The context for that statement was recognizing a push for bigger screens and growing sales for those phones, that they were refusing to change because it's all people needed. The truth could be buried in there, that they didn't want to have multiple production lines for different sizes along with different storage, that they figured a person wanting larger would settle for smaller as long as it was "iphone" but that wouldn't work the other way. But he was pretty clear of what he meant and why he was saying it.

 

[Jeremy8000]

No.

No, No, No, No, No, No.

It's my opinion that that phones are too big. I like phones that actually fit in my pocket and that I can use with one hand. I don't understand why everyone insists on oversized phones. They look good on display at retail stores, and may impress your friends, but in day-to-day use they are annoying to use. Thankfully, Sony makes their Xperia "Compact" line of phones.

There's a demand for both. Back in the 'old days' people would have a phone with, by today's standards, a very, very small screen that was perfect for almost everything one would want a phone to do, and then a separate tablet with a much larger screen for media consumption and longer sessions of browsing, etc.

Now the tablet market has largely dried up from its glory days, with the two categories having to a great extent merged, meeting in the middle to afford a single device that is less easily pocketable but provides an all-in-one device functionality that can do nearly everything. I had had a separate tablet and phone, upgrading one or the other annually, until the Nexus 6 came out with its "ridiculously large" 5.96" screen, at which point I appreciated a device that struck the balance. Budgeting to enjoy upgrading a single device rather than two has its obvious advantages.

I do think it's great that we are retaining 'smallish' devices, but I think a lot of people get hung up on looking at a screen size as defining portability which is a flawed criteria, as the ratio of screen-to-body has continually climbed.

This is just the reverse of the trend in the early 2000's to see just how small a phone could get