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Close, but 2000s had some very intrusive and malware ridden advertisements. Popups everywhere, aggressive banners, malware and random browser toolbars being installed to your system. Complete wild west of unrestrained advertising. Online ad blocking didn’t start with Ublock Origin, the first tipping point was in the 90s and 2000s, where famously clean and effective search engine Google swooped in to “save us” with their Chrome browser blocking popups by default, and their own concept of ‘ethical ads’, which were mostly unobtrusive and text-based (what happened there?). Which was nice for a while before Google exploited the popularity that bought them to turn into an inescapable ad monster.

The vanishing of the small high-end smartphone (www.smh.com.au)

Manufacturers don’t make displays under 6 inches available for purchase, with special cases (such as the iPhone Mini) being made under exclusive contracts. The best lead they have so far is to try to use displays designed for the front part of a foldable phone, but they’re yet to strike an agreement....

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ZenFone is the same size as an iPhone or an S23, pretty sure there is no lack of people buying phones at that size. But also I would consider that a standard size, not ‘small’.

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They still will.

What are some alternative to soulless videogame franchises?

What I mean is… sometimes people are very loyal to a videogame franchise or a company because they loved a game they released years ago (Silent Hill/Konami with Silent Hill 2, Blizzard/Bethesda with their respective golden eras, some could argue this happens too with Pokémon and Final Fantasy, etc). Ethical/consumer reasons...

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Pretty random list off the top of my head:

Hyperlight Drifter, Sayonara Wild Hearts, Ruiner, Grim Dawn, Rime

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From the thumbnail i thought the phone was wearing a puffy jacket.

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But there is the possibility they could capture almost the whole small phone market, instead of competing against titans for a piece of the big phone market. I also don’t see how this is not still a big market that is being ignored. So many random trash phones that must be getting pitiful sales numbers, but they can’t make anything in a small size, like they used to do in huge numbers just half a decade ago?

I get that the Mini might not reach numbers acceptable for Apple, but for some random Android manufacturers, those same numbers would be huge, and they have basically no competition right now. The first company to offer something decent in that size bracket would have that whole market to themselves.

But no, i think they all just dream that they might beat Google and Samsung for the same 6.3-6.8" market and be rich.

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As a UX designer, EU please save us from Adobe!

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Same experience when i was using the Jelly 2, people loved it when i pulled it out to pay with NFC.

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It’s not so surprising they all have +6" phones, since there are no smaller options available, irrespective of price.

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ZenFone isn’t small, it’s the same size as a regular iPhone/Pro, not the Mini, so I can’t see it proving anything about small phone demand that couldn’t equally be applied to a regular iPhone or S23 etc. It also isn’t discontinued.

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I agree with everything you wrote, except as a designer I wanted to point out that the lack of scope limitation is not usually due to design, but rather product and marketing who drive new features, because their job is to increase new customers, and improving life for existing customers is a far second – only so far as potential new customers may be impacted (reviews, comparisons with competitors, or churn). So long as they can mostly keep existing customers they will always fight against spending development time on improving their experience, when they could add a new point to the feature list for marketing.

The issue is the drive for infinite growth is counter to a human-usable quality-focused UX (with a focused scope and focused target audience).

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If you’re used to Google Assistant in 2023, the bar for being amazed would be pretty low.

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Would be better if it were optional. The little key in the status area is more than enough indication for me. A persistent notification is not a notification, it’s a hack.

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Can someone turn that front screen into its own separate phone?

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Lameness is the most important part of the Google Assistant experience.

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And i just want a tab bar on Android tablets/foldables like every other browser.

Ecosia adds Microsoft Clarity and optional Google search results and advertising (www.ecosia.org)

Ecosia adds “contractually forced” Microsoft Clarity tracking (learn.microsoft.com/en-us/…/about-clarity | privacy faq : learn.microsoft.com/en-us/clarity/faq#privacy), which will record the behaviour of users on the website. Recording clics, size, and more....

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I’m trying out Kagi atm, but it’s not free. The alternative is basically “pick your poison”. I think any “free” service will inevitably end up in the same sketchy shit all companies large enough are drawn into.

Still not sure where I land at the end of the trial; the cost is really pushing the limit of what I could justify paying for online search.

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Pixel 8 is still too big for me. If they would release a Pixel 8 Mini I would love to buy that, even at the same price. Even at the Pro price if it had the same features.

Instead I’ll keep holding out with my current phone.

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At least you have that option.

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There’s not any current flagship phone with (significantly) smaller dimensions, which is my main complaint.

My phone is an S22, for the singular reason that it was literally the smallest (Android) flagship phone available at the time. But it’s still too big.

However my actual phone is irrelevant, even if it would be a ZFold the point is that i will not change from it until I see a proper small option.

For me “small” would be 4-5.5", and i don’t consider the iPhone 15 Pro (or Pixel 8) to be small. I consider that to be a “standard” size these days (6"), where everything larger is “large” and anything in the missing segment of smaller would be “small”.

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Sure, but those are tradeoffs that are necessitated by the size, so it just comes down to a consumer deciding if they value more the larger battery, or smaller size. Personally i put a lot of value in the smaller size, so would be very accepting of reasonable tradeoffs to achieve it.

I also hope Google (or any major manufacturer) finds its way to include a smaller option in future lineups. :)

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No one is saying gender is the only point of discrimination, but this specific event is focused on gender issues.

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The content from Twitter, but you don’t have to log in to view it.

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The only reason i don’t buy it is because it’s too big. Particularly for a phone i would commit to for a longer lifespan, the physical design needs to be without compromise, and i know that the moment someone releases a half-way decent mini Android phone, i will drop whatever phone i have and buy that instead.

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That’s the same size as an iPhone 15 or Galaxy S23, not “mini”.

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I fear that too. But so long as my current phone holds out, there’s no point buying into another compromise upfront.

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The smallest I’ve seen Sony recently releasing was the Xperia 5 V, which is 6.1". Similar to iPhone 15, S23, ZenFone and Pixel 8, just i think taller and narrower. I tried it in person, but it still felt ‘big’.

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Luckily if you are looking for an even larger phone for a scaled up keyboard, you have plenty of options. I don’t have the same struggle with the keyboard, and would happily use a 4" screen phone if one were available.

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You can change it to men, but most of the results are intersex(?) or outright women anyway. I guess the training data is heavily weighted toward examples of women.

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Would be great if they could instead move the whole physical top of the screen closer to my thumb for the next Pixels.

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Is there any chance it’s a compact (<6") size?

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I’ve thought about doing this, but I’m worried about banking, payment, stocks (and other similarly picky) apps flipping the table when they notice it’s a rooted device.

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I target the Shorts container row element with uBlock, so it’s removed permanently from the grid.

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On Android tablets, most non-Firefox browsers support a tab bar, and tablet optimised UI. Firefox is just a giant stretched phone layout. I like to use the same browser on all platforms so I can sync tabs, so Firefox being crap on my tablet rules it out for my other devices too.

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I’m really happy with Vivaldi for now, but I’ll have a look into Fennec anyway and maybe give it a spin. Thanks for the info!

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Galaxy S23 is the same size though?

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If they would have committed to the “small phone” thing and made it significantly smaller, it would have differentiated it from the competition and I (at least) would have bought it immediately. Instead it competed against S23, iPhone, Xiaomi, Pixel 7a with nothing to really set it apart, except for more questionable software support.

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I agree. I was pointing out that losing ZenFone doesn’t mean anything in terms of “no more one handed phones”, since it a) wasn’t one, and b) other phones still exist at the same size anyway, so it’s not the last of… whatever it is.

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I know a smaller screen would mean a smaller battery, and I am completely fine with that, since I value the ergonomics and portability more highly. My phone rarely drops below 50% as it is. Would be good to have even a single option like that on the market.

Alternatively, I wouldn’t mind it being a little thicker to compensate a reduction in face size.

Sci-fi books which don't involve too much space travels and massive world builds?

Don’t really know how to explain this. I like sci fi and would love to dig deeper into it. Am avid reader and enjoyed Project Hail Mary (though set in space, this book is just amazing), Dune, short stories by Ray Bradbury and TV shows like Raised by the Wolves, Westworld, From (love From!). But e.g. Foundation I really...

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Those three books are called the Broken Earth trilogy, starting with The Fifth Season, and it’s probably my favourite trilogy. (Not correcting, just adding detail so they are easier to find). The magic system here always feels very specific and ‘grounded’ (heh), so it doesn’t feel like the fluffy magic of more “high fantasy”, and maybe connects more with sci-fi sensibilities? Anyway, i agree that it’s excellent.

OP could also look at Ursula Le Guin. The Earthsea books are amazing, very low-key and character focused. More in the fantasy space too though, but so is Dune pretty much. She also has Left Hand of Darkness, which was great and more on the sci-fi side (no actual space travel or other planets, aside from references), particularly if they have any interest in a kind of meditation on cultural differences and gender.

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I’m considering moving to Apple just for a “mini” phone, and i know it would be supported for a good few years yet. Android has no comparable phone.

But I prefer pretty much everything else about Android. Not just prefer, actually I really dislike iOS, the way it’s organised, the way it handles “Back” gesture, etc.

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I want to swipe in from the right edge of the screen though, where my thumb already is…

Plus it doesn’t even work consistently, some apps use different “back” swipe direction, depending on where in the app you came from to the screen you’re on. I hate it.

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Not sure how recently you mean “recently”, but i last tried (for 6 months) iOS last year, and it was still exactly as you described.

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Yes, but it’s not small imo, it’s the same size as the iPhone 14 (regular/Pro, not Mini) or S23, etc.

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I can’t sideload, but looking forward to trying the Play Store release eventually!

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Those people need to check their ego and recalibrate to find contentment. Or double-down on their preferred alternative reality.

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Why not both?

I’m not sure why your response is so hostile against my support of the idea, or why you make so many unfounded assumptions.

How do you know I don’t raise my voice against those views in public? And I never said anything about such spaces being “zones out of sight”, that was your addition. I didn’t say that this article’s idea was the limit of what I support.

Sure it could be “even better”… literally any idea could be even better. But if you attack everything less than perfection, we will never get anywhere.

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I interpreted it as directed at me and my comment, because you wrote it as a reply to my comment, rather than a reply to the article.

The rest… i will leave you with that. I still disagree with your perspective.

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