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As an iPhone mini user. Small phones need a comeback

As someone who works in a phone shop, a LOT of people wish there were more options that were on the smaller side 🤷🏼

I have smaller hands, so the smaller screen was a big selling point for me. Being able to reach all the way across the screen is so much more comfortable for one handed use

I think we should appreciate the fact that someone still cares about compact phones and still manage to cram up all the good things in it. I love compact phones the likes of which were felt in Pixel 3 a, and it was a lighter phone too, making it minimal to carry and gives it minimal aesthetic altogether. I know people have forgotten about Light phone 2, but its such form factors that makes us forget we are holding or carrying a brick. And use it less.

I used to be the big size phones guy since the first Galaxy Note but recently I switched from iPhone 12 Pro Max to 13 mini and I’m loving it!

The fact they have fixed every problem I recall from the Zenfone 9 is incredible. They also didnt mess up anything people loved (like the headphone jack and compact design). Really listening to the feedback and im all for it!

I have an Asus ZenFone 10, and I'm really happy with it so far! I was actively searching for a compact phone. I don't like big and heavy phones, they are uncomfortable to use (at least for me and ny small hands), but i didn't want to compromise performance, because I use my phone as a work aid and i like gaming. This little guy is powerful and has actually a good battery, it could charge a little faster but I'm okay with it, I charge it at night when I'm not using it. Other than that, wonderful smartphone 😊

Been using the Zenfone 9 for more than a year now and it hasn't let me down a single time - a real work horse. Keeping my Zenfone 9, and getting a Zenfone 10 for my mom for Christmas. I'm sure she'll love it.

As someone who works at tech sales, a lot of people wish they had proper options for small phones. The Zenfone 10 is pretty much a perfect phone in regards to what I would want from a phone. And judging by the amount of questions I get regarding smaller phones, if they made like a Zenfone 10 Lite with some reduced specs at 599 or 499, that phone would sell like crazy. But extreme kudos to Asus for keeping up with the Zenfone series and keeping it small when everyone else is going bigger.

Small phones are criminally underrated tbh

I as a seller, always sell small devices. Just a few days after we stock up with small phones, the sell out quickly.

Your video editing team is absolutely insane with all the panning + action shots, I enjoy it but I have to de-stimulate and look at a white wall for a few minutes after 😅 thanks for the review + addressing this topic!

As a pixel 4a user, can't get enough of it. Very handy phone. Good for day to day activities. 5-6 inches is the perfect phone size.

Im definitely in that shrinking demographic of not wanting a phone over 6 inches or so and its been an utter nightmare!! Im glad there is a last refuge for us out there lol

Right... To put it simply for you: Any guy who is physically active and likes to exercise a lot absolutely hates carrying around a big ass phone. Needs to be in the pocket, portable, light, easy and fast to maneuver with one hand, while you're listening to music on it often times, or shopping your next supplements.

A really fun video! Way better than a bunch of review channels I've seen on here I just want a smaller phone so I can easily use it, but one that's not credit card sized

I've been looking for a smaller smartphone that isn't crazy expensive for years. I miss those times when it was easy to carry it in my pocket.

oh god the charger from my nightmares at 1:57

I had a Sony Z3 Compact back in the day (9 yrs?), and I loved it. I am looking forward to checking this phone out.

That's one very good phone!! I absolutely love the OS options when setting up the phone! Even that I'm not used to small phones , I can imagine myself dailying this flagship!

Asus also had really good Gcam support, allowing for usage of full sensor resolution etc. That is something to keep in mind as even the Pixel benefits greatly from a good custom GCam!

I would 100% buy a small phone if I could afford one

I appreciate his clever way to have us watch his sponsored part of video by recording it on the product he's reviewing. brilliant way

I love mini phones went out my way to buy a mini 13 when it came speced out to the max one of the most durable iphones ever had and its taken a beating

Azus was never into catering the mass market. They have their small and loyal fan base with the Zenfones and their ROGs. It's rare to see such brands in the world who are trying something different than others where literally every other company is trying to make generic smartphones with generic specs for the mass market. I love Asus. If you know,you know.

The Zenfone Series was always amazing. It's kinda sad that not many people consider it 😅

Asus is my favorite tech company hands down! They create actually good and practical hardware with lot’s of research and development put into their products. Their Zenbook Notebooks with touchscreens, gaming hardware and smartphones are among my absolute favorite possessions.

Nobody buys them because nobody makes them. And the reason people go for bigger phones is that companies make you buy it. If I, for example, want to have more than 512gb of memory, I need to get a bigger phone because they don't have such option in their smaller phones. AND THERE IS NO option to expand memory with an SD card as it used to be. So my answer is - companies MAKE you buy bigger phones!

I wouldn’t consider 5.92 inch a small phone. But then again, I’m using the iPhone 13 mini and think this is the perfect size on a phone. This is the first phone in my life that I don’t want to sell and buy another one. This is the one I want to keep for many years and hopefully buy it again if Apple should decide to use it as a future SE phone.

Small phones are great, there really should be more of them. Love the vids!

Smaller cellphones are really good to handle, I think the perfect cellphone size is around 5.8" to 5.9" (S10e size or ZenFone 9/10 size)

Nice review as usual! Super informative. Just a point of correction on thermals. I believe there is no "airflow" in a phone since there are no fans (in most phones. The asus ROG phone is the only phone I could remember having an actual fan). At a hardware level, the phone dissipates heat by conduction through the use of heat sinks in most scenarios.

I don't usually comment here but I think you really dropped the ball with this one. With the influence you have, you could have objectively reviewed the phone for what it is (a compact device that doesn't have most of the drawbacks of a compact device which is a marvelous engineering feat by Asus). But it feels like you already had a generic script for "Why small phone are bad" and you were waiting for any small phone to come on the review desk to talk about that and this just happens to be this phone which does not have any small phone problem (thermal performance and battery life) unsurprisingly this shows a disconnect between the points you are making and the objective reality of this product.

I really like small compact phones....I don't want to put a whole slab in my pocket......but companies doesn't produce small phones that much

I switched from the iPhone 14 Pro to the iPhone SE. I love the form factor of the SE and it was partly a philosophical move - that I’m going to stop being tempted by the next shiniest phone. If Apple makes a foldable yeah okay I’ll buy it.

I bought it because I really wanted a smaller phone after 4 years with a Huawei P30 pro. The battery life is outstanding and it's so fast I can hardly keep up. I went for the 16Gb/512Gb.

Arun's editor spitting facts at 2:11

0:37 Kitten is so adorable.....I kept replaying that few seconds just to re-watch it trying ti bite the phone....lol...

I love my iphone mini and wish they made a comeback! the normal iphone gives me hand cramps when I use it for too long. However a lot of people tell me that they bought the normal iphone because the mini was the same price with less battery life and they thought it would also be missing other features even though it's pretty much the same as the normal iphone

I think the Zenfone might be a good option for me. I want a smaller phone than most brands are making, I want a 3,5mm jack, I don't mind the charge time at all, I don't care too much about cameras, and I don't play games or multitask a lot on my phone. It has most of the features that I want, while most of it's drawbacks aren't big issues for me

I have the ZenFone 9 and I love it. It's probably the best phone I've ever had. And I've gone through quite a lot. I really hope they keep doing their thing for some time longer

Headphone jack? I'm sold. I'll buy one sight unseen, lol.

How does he always balance his reviews? I've always wanted to see all the sides to some devices and this guy always does a good job at it👍

Bought an iPhone 13 mini a month ago instead of the Pixel 6, which is even smaller than the zenfone (5.5 inches vs. 5.9) and I've never been so pleased with a smartphone. I can reach anywhere on the screen with my thumb, the smartphone feels great in my hand, and the performance and cameras are uncompromising. If you are tired of modern smartphones, then try compacts.

I miss smaller phones. Yeah, big screens are nice but one handed usability and fitting comfortably in a pocket is more important to me. Plus, the screen is usually the biggest power user of the phone so having a little bit smaller battery isn't as big of a deal. Especially since phones actually don't actually use as big of batteries as they could.

Agree, there are still small amount of compact sized phone nowadays compared to ultra size phones.

I still have the iPhone 8, which I think is the perfect size. It fits comfortably everywhere, still thin, and I can hold it one hand and reach most of the screen (with the double light touch feature). It’s great for people with small hands 😅

If I hadn't bought an S23 Ultra in February, I would have bought the Asus Zenfone 10 right away. The S23 Ultra is a super cool device but then too big. But since I'm not someone who constantly changes devices, I'll be using the S23U for a few years now. My next device will definitely be a Zenfone 12 or 13. I hope that this series of devices will still be around in 2-3 years.

Pretty much everything is on point...except the battery life. Yes, it's smaller, but they've optimized it wonderfully. It gets the same battery life as a Samsung S23+ (of the reviews I've seen so far). Impressive to say the least.

I love small phones but the sad fact that you can't get a large battery in a small phone has caused me to give up my iPhone se 2020. I loved that little phone and will miss it.

Love your videos

I specifically bought a 2nd gen iPhone SE since I don't use my phone too much (it just needed to work and be reliable) and I wanted something small enough that I could fit in my pocket (and women's pockets generally don't hold much more than a small phone if they're real pockets at all). The iPhone Mini 13 would probably be my preferred size when I need to upgrade.

I personally shifted from a big big phone to much smaller phone and I love it. Much more convenient to hold. And I`m pretty sure that more and more ppl will shift to smaller phones in near future.

thanks for the perspective. I have a different set of criteria that makes me choose smaller form factors and am very upset about the end of the iPhone mini....

I'm still rocking the 8, might upgrade when the 12 comes out

I was crazy with the phones getting insanely bigger, and fortunately Apple decided to bring the new mini series. Since then I was looking for a chance to switch to the mini versions, and finally got an iPhone 13 mini. Honestly speaking, it feels so good to use this phone and I am loving it. Thinking to keep it as long as possible because sadly, Apple decided to discontinue the mini series.

I was never a fan of bigger phones, there's been alot of updates for the Zenfone 10 & it's been working great for me, i use the 512gb version with 16gb ram. Battery lasts a full day or more when used occasionally. Only downside it has which i agree with is the camera. It does take great pics but at a certain lighting and before the 2x zoom.

I think that the best size is the average modern iPhone size / S23 base size: 6.1 inch screen diagonal. It's slightly larger than the Zenfone but it allows to pack much more stuff inside the phone while still keeping it reasonably more compact than the average 6.6+ phones

Zenphone 9/10 have been the two phones that showcase you can have a small phone with major flagship specs while it not having have to be so big. I personally love a smaller phone. Far easier to travel with, super quick to top off (generally due to smaller size), and in this years case wireless charging. If I didn't have an S23 Base, I would of definitely grabbed this instead.

I have mad respect for Asus for believing in the right thing. How consistently they’re trying to innovate compact phones. I use an iphone 13 mini and words don’t do justice to my user experience. It just feels right. My girlfriend has an iphone 13 pro and its battery backup is almost similar to mine. Also, her battery health is falling faster than mine although I abuse my phone when it comes to charging habits. It is so funny to me when someone says bigger phones have bigger screen for details. Sure, a movie formatted for an IMAX screen looks exactly same and detailed in a 7 inch phone but if you scale it down 1 more inch it’s a disaster 😂 As per this logic 8 inch phone will have better display, camera and battery. 10 inch one will be even better. Go bigger! Sure a bigger screen has benefits but at what cost? A phone has become already an extension to human body these days, and let’s make them as big as possible to immerse ourselves into the black mirrors.

loooove the small phones, the Zen phone was too expensive, so I bought the Sony Xperia V something for 400$ and while it's not great (the camera is trash) the battery (by far the best I ever had) and the size is so so perfect. When someone hands me their big phone I just can't see myself using one again.

As a Zenfone 9 owner, this is the smoothest Android experience I ever had and it's finally a smartphone that meets its primary use-case: Being comfortable to use while mobile. It's only the 4300 mAH battery that I don't really feel at all - although turning off 5G seemed to massively increase my battery life. Since I'm keeping my phones alive as long as possible (my OnePlus 6 is great again after flashing Pixel Experience onto it), I hope my Zenfone 9 at least stays my reliable companion at least until 2026.

After seeing the practicality of it, my heart really breaks that we might not be getting compact smartphones from current manufacturers in the future too.😩

I buy small phones! All of the cons you list on this video are either non-issues or not cons for me. I just much prefer having a small device that is comfortable to hold/use, mainly because it's a communications device or gets used for randomly checking something online, basically I don't consume content on my phone - I have a computer or TV for that. The only thing that concerned me from the launch event was their talk of AI image retouching to make skies bluer and grass greener - that is probably the biggest con on this phone for me

My main phone is s22+, but my work phone is an iPhone 13 mini and I love it! My aunt also has one as her phone, there always needs to be small phones available! For preference but also people w mobility issues

I guess we have come a full circle now. In early 2000's every company including Nokia and Siemens competed who can make a smaller phone.

Last year I upgraded from 4.6inch Sony Xperia XZ1 to Asus Zenphone 9 and I find this phone to be an absolute limit to what I would consider comfortable to carry around. It's a really good phone overall, maybe just a little to big for my taste :) Screen is large enough for every day use like practical internet browsing and watching youtube video from time to time. I much prefer it siting relatively comfortably in my pocket, than some flat screen TV reminding of it's existence there all the time. If Asus won't follow others and will keep this route, most possibly my next phone will be Zenphone 11 or 12

I remember when the HTC HD2 was considered ridiculously large with a 4.3in screen. The main difference between large and small phones is use. If the phone is primarily for communication then a smaller, more portable phone is great. If the phone is an entertainment device then the larger screen is the primary feature.

Small phones ain't small, r just the right size!!!!🗿🗿🗿

I tried small and big phones but always end up with the biggest screen size, I find it way more practical to see more information

Mini as SE is for specific people. It is so much convenient to have a smaller size phone. People forget how screens used to be. The idea of having a phone that can fit in your pocket no matter what is amazing

i own a Zenfone 9 as a daily driver and i couldn't be happier! it's an awesome, reliable machine in a compact size.

I would buy the Zenfone 10.... but it's not available where I am. Not officially at least.

The little "that's what she said" blurb made me lol

i will cherish my iphoneSE1 forever. the 5s’ classic design, touch ID, headphone jack, great cameras, ios15, and clear screen. it’s everything i need and i can actually use it one handed and carry it in my pocket without it feeling like a brick. i love “small” efficient phones.

Finally, someone who understands the struggle of small phone enthusiasts! It's frustrating how manufacturers keep pushing for larger and larger screens, assuming that everyone wants a phablet-sized device. As someone who prefers compact phones for their portability and one-handed use, I truly appreciate the points made in this video. Let's hope phone companies start recognizing the demand for smaller form factors and give us more options! 🙌📱 Edit: Thanks For The Likes! ❤️

If I want a tablet, I get a tablet. A phone needs to fit in a pocket

am sporting a Doogee S Mini (very small rugged phone) as a daily driver. If i need something bigger, I would use my huge (relative to the Doogee) Infinix phone. Both are serving me very well especially when travelling.

Asus phones have terrific longevity. My Zenfone Max Pro M1 still survives after 5 years even after I broke the display twice and now my father uses it. It's the same size at 5'9" but that's how big phones used to be back then. Now 6'5" is the standard.

Good stuff man. Pixel 7A Is a baby too.

I tend to disagree with you. There are people that prefer smaller phones. Mine is an iPhone SE 2nd Gen. I chose it only because I did not pay the extra cash for the newer small versions. This is enough for me and still get the same updates as the newer models. Also, I needed a phone for my daughter. Being a child, she has small hands. I wanted an Android, but I found nothing that fits her hands. Eventually I bought a phone for her. But she can't even use it with both hands, for more than five minutes. She needs to prop it somehow. So I miss the smaller phones, that can comfortably fit in a pocket and can be used with one hand.

because people who buy small phones are not going to buy another one when a new one comes out

I've been using an iPhone 13 mini for almost a year and a half by now and I absolutely love it. I wish more companies would make small flagship phones but as you mentioned there are plenty of challenges manufacturers have to face in making one. Maybe one day there would be a Google Pixel mini? Or another iPhone SE with the same body as the 13 mini? Who knows, awesome video BTW!

Not that 5'11.5" right when Arun said "6 foot" 💀

I have xperia 10 IV since was released, best battery on the market , small size but I would like to see my next phone even smaller...

When all companies are pushing to bigger screens and folding features, I think they are forgetting that weight and size are also an aspect. Take iphone 13 pro max, it's big and it's edges cut into your hand, carrying it in a trouser pocket you can feel its weight pulling on your pants, while a bigger screen can be good I think a smaller phone is easier to carry around and do everyday tasks, and zenfone is packing both the astounding performance with a smaller and sleeker look. Honestly its just amazing how much they can pack in that.

I loved iphone 13 mini it was amazing, I really miss it. Hope it returns after iPhone 15.

I still use iphone se 1st gen, which is very small and outdated. But it still fulfill my needs for a day to day smartphone! Love the brands that's trying to keep small phones around.!

I want a smaller phone. About a solid 5" screen size. One-handed use is precious to me, and not to mention a more comfy, less-bulky pocket.

I actually liked this zenfone 10. My last phone was a motorola one, it's size was just perfect. I like phones that I can use with one hand. But the problem was the battery, as usual, last year I bought the umidigi power 7 max, giant phone, with ridiculous 10000 mAh. The only downsize with my actual phone is it's size. I miss operating my phone with one hand. I can see myself easily using this zenfone 10 without a problem, even with the "small' battery compared to my actual phone...

2 months ago I went to an iPhone 13 mini after 10 years on Android (all Samsung). I bypassed the S23 Ultra and literally left the ecosystem to get a small phone that wasn’t garbage with short security update cycle. I’m 6’ tall and on my phone a lot, I would be fine with a slightly smaller phone. I don’t miss a larger screen at all.

6.55 inch & I really feel comfortable with this. Not too big or small! Thanks

My first smartfone was an Alcatel Zenfone . I loved it for the compact size , decent battery life and a headphone jack . I want to get a 10 .

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I have a slim phone, and I personally find it hard to type on it. My fingers just aren’t cutting it for me. The Zenfone 10 looks utterly incredible with its small but not terrible design.

As a small phone user, i dont like to have bricks in my pocket, im used to the battery limitation so having a smaller and handier phone is what i look for when i need a new device.

this is why i really love my samsung xcover 5. because its not to big , but it can handle a lot of the things a regular customer needs in their daily life.

Yes, there are perks in a bigger phone but I'd personally choose a smaller phone. Still rocking with iPhone SE 2016 and it's a conversation starter! Would use it as long as it is functional

Having used many phones, one of my favorites is the iPhone 13 mini. I had 2 of those before and I am STILL drawn to it. Im currently using the Pixel 7 and Im seriously considering to try the Zenfone 9. But if small phones were to make a come back, Samsung needs to be the one to introduce them (since Apple has given up on the mini. Maybe an S24e like the old S10e, but one can only wish for it.