> I find smaller phones annoying. I’m never quite sure if the mic can pick up my voice if the earpiece is near my ear. I’m also much more likely to drop the smaller phone.

This is funny because I feel like mic quality has only gotten worse since the days of the Nokia candy bar phone where the mic fell about mid cheek.

Maybe it has something to do with the way you had to hold those phones and your hand naturally cupped from the mic around to your mouth.

Or the miniature mics in modern phones and thier reliance on noise cancelling with multiple mic arrays.