Re:Apple Set to Cut iPhone Production Goals Due to Chip Crunch
by diggan on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @07:57AM
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I'd love it if manufacturers could go back to try to make mobile phones smaller again, at least for those with smaller hands (like me). It's almost impossible to find a feature phone that I can use with one hand and reach everywhere with my thumb. Latest phone is a iPhone 12 Mini, but CarPlay is so horrible (and important for me) that I'm looking for a good Android phone again (Android Auto is miles ahead of CarPlay), with the same size and good performance. But it's really hard to find good ones.
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Re:Apple Set to Cut iPhone Production Goals Due to Chip Crunch
by wffurr on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @07:58AM
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Apparently the mini versions of the iPhone sold poorly enough that they won't produce a mini version of the iPhone 14, and instead will push the SE as their small sized phone.
At this point, backing Kickstarter projects is likely the only way to get a small phone made.
Re:Apple Set to Cut iPhone Production Goals Due to Chip Crunch
by iSnow on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @08:06AM
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Same here, and now that my Sony Xperia Compact is now on life support, I will have to switch to iPhone. There is no Android phone maker left that produces something between the ultra-small Atom and what used to be called phablets.
And even Apple seems to have a hard time selling smaller phones.