Yeah, I can reach top to bottom but it involves balancing the phone on the end of my pinkie and maneuvering it. It comes naturally now, but it was probably an issue when I got it. It’s been a couple of years so I can’t remember now.
Shorter phones really are few and far between, but they do exist. Here’s a search that shows any 140mm or shorter, released in the past couple of years and still available: www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?nYearMin=2021&n…
The Pixel 7a is 152mm tall, this search shows anything 140mm tall or shorter. So phones about half an inch shorter than the Pixel 7a (not screen size, but the actual height of the phone top to bottom). There’s nothing in that list that stands out as one often recommended, popular phones are all big these days.