I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone

Re:I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone by ako on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @04:44PM (#31416075)

No bad. I don't want those iritating headphone wires. Also a phone that doesn't mind being dropped in water, so no headphone jack please. Notch is not really an issue, front facing camera is useful for video-calls. And i don't have a camera bump, that's solved by the case. Also, no idea what i'd do with memory cards, there's plenty memory in the my phone.

The iphone 13 mini works well for me. No idea if this represents anybody elso on HN...

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Re:I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone by bscphil on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @04:52PM (#31416152)

> Also a phone that doesn't mind being dropped in water, so no headphone jack please.

People have somehow managed to forget this, but phones have been waterproof since ... basically forever without forgoing a headphone jack. I could link probably half the phones made between 2012-2017, but this phone is actually linked by the site itself: https://www.theverge.com/2015/10/16/9549247/sony-xperia-z5-r...

Honestly, I'm not sure what the issue is supposed to be here. I've literally never, in 12 years of owning a smartphone, dropped it in water. I have no clue how that's even supposed to happen short of it falling into a river.

Since this is a small phone, I suspect most people will probably not be using a case that adds significantly to the size. Just a guess on my part though. I can live with a camera bump if I have to, I just think a lot of us miss the candy bar designs of ~2014-2015.

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Re:I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone by ricardobeat on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @12:51AM (#31419336)

Some might want to do it on purpose… like recording videos in a pool or lake. I’ve done it with a 6S, it survived just fine.

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Re:I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone by qq66 on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @02:21AM (#31419780)

The most common way that a phone gets into water is that a woman has the phone in her pocket and it falls into the toilet. Most women's clothing has extremely terrible pockets that cannot securely hold a modern-size smartphone.

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Re:I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone by vladvasiliu on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @08:39AM (#31422011)

I've never dropped a phone in water either, but what I did do was ride a motorbike in heavy rain with the smartphone as GPS and no case around it.

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Re:I want an iPhone Mini-sized Android phone by tastyfreeze on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @04:56PM (#31416187)

I am typing this from a waterproof phone with a USB C port and headphone jack. Yes, I have put it underwater. There were plenty of waterproof phones with headphone jacks before flagships dropped the port.

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