At the beginning of 2020, we published an article titled ‘Advocating small mobile phones’. At that time, almost all of the models that retained a certain manageability in the market had disappeared. Especially in the Android market the standard was already well over 6 inches. Especially if we don’t want to settle for a low-end terminal.

This increasingly hard-to-find manageability featured two models over the next three years: the iPhone mini, which lasted for several generations; and the Asus Zenfone stays under 6 inches.

Neither one nor the other survived.

A slow pass with a steep drop

In the collective imagination, there was room for a small terminal among Apple’s customers. But they launched the iPhone 12 mini in 2020 and it was a commercial failure. Already during this course, numerous reports have surfaced mentioning low commercial production, which prompted Apple to consider canceling.

A year later the iPhone 13 mini arrived and A priori fixed the main shortcoming of its predecessor, autonomy. That shouldn’t be enough either.or maybe the decision has already been made and there is no mini model in the 2022 catalogue.

Asus model Zenfone 10, the latest model of which was announced in the past months, was quite convincing and had a wide angle or little difference from the previous model. But that shouldn’t be enough either.

Now we know thanks Technews Taiwan It is stated that Asus is going through an internal restructuring process and as part of this process, some departments have been downsized. And the Zenfone division would be shut down so employees could go to other departments or directly to ROG, the ongoing phone line.

The number of phones released under the 15-centimeter psychological barrier is decreasing every year. From the 200+ annual models we saw in 2016 or 2017, we went below thirty last year. And this year has been particularly bloody: we’ve only seen four of them in eight months.. Galaxy S23, Asus Zenfone 10, Blackiew N600 and Nokia 106 which is a basic phone.

Maybe out of nostalgia, maybe out of pocket, maybe because of manageability, maybe because of an old personal habit, but Whatever the reasons put forward so far for seizing a small cell phone have been left out of the question.. Or outside the market.

In a business as commercial as the smartphone industry, every neighbor’s son does whatever it takes to increase his market share, no matter how many words he eats; we have seen only four mobile phones smaller than this limit This is a sign of the absolute indifference of the consumer. I’m sure there are people who pay to buy a sequined phone, but luckily not that much.

On the horizon was the promise of foldable devices, which have been around for so long for almost five years, that there will be doubts about whether they will one day become more than just a promise or continue in a marginal role. .

And so are we with increasingly larger luggage mobiles. Some already exceed 7 inches as a preview of what’s to come (Lava Z2 Max, Vivo X Note). Platforms where video is at the forefront, the development of mobile networks and the ubiquity of video-on-demand have ensured that only the big screen is present in the market.

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