The market simply isn't there to be a viable option to manufacture both size screens. Unfortunately, you're the minority and your needs aren't important enough to change their manufacturing process.

It would require a lot to mass manufacture both sizes at the pace these factories pump these things out. It would effect their bottom line and there's not enough ppl that want small phones to make it worth doing.

I hate that for you and others. But it's just how it goes.

And the price. Small phones are cheaper too.

flip phone owner here! I love my razr+/40 ultra. the small screen is entirely reachable by my thumb, and is plenty big enough to read emails, messages, etc. i even use it to play passtime games, like into the breach, or attach it to an 8bitdo zero with a 3d printed case to use as a Gameboy.

Some people, like myself, prefer small phones because they are easily pocketable. I don't have any problems operating a larger screen but I don't like carrying around a larger device all the time, especially since I've cut back on usage significantly and it spends a lot more time in my pocket. Flip phones are the modern solution to this problem.

There's two main reasons to want a smaller phone. A smaller overall physical size so it fits better in a pocket, or a smaller screen so it's more reachable when used with one hand.

I suppose the new flip foldable phones might satisfy the first but not the second.

In my hand, currently.

Seeing the headline I was expecting to see Unihertz Jelly Star too! I'm really curious about the experience of a 3-inch phone

Unihertz rarely mentioned in discussion about small phones. I wonder why.

Putting the Pixel 7a or 8 side-by-side with a P5 or a P4a really goes to show how big "small" phones have become. I really loved the size of those devices...

"Nice" is subjective, but the 7a is objectively not a small phone. It is very thick and heavy, and much larger than true small phones.

Hello there. With Graphene OS, will you lose camera quality?

Stop comparing it by screen size. Bezels are waaay smaller now than they used to be.

I see a lot of people saying "small?! How could this be small, the screen is X inches! My phone from 2014 was only Y inches!" while completely ignoring that slim bezels mean the phone is about the same size.

Comparing the S24 to the S5 from a decade ago, the S24 has a frontal area of 10,437mm², and the S5 is 10,366mm². The newer one is marginally smaller.

You wouldn't think that comparing screen sizes, though. You'd look at the screen size and say "Omg it's over an inch larger, this phone must be MASSIVE!"

Granted, if you go back to like the iPhone 4 era and earlier, phones genuinely were smaller. But phone sizes haven't really changed much at all in the past decade, yet people act like they get larger every generation.

Having trouble finding links to back it up, but I think the Pixel Fold 2 is unfortunately rumored to be quite a bit taller/larger than yours :( I too thought that the smaller outer screen of the first gen was a nice selling point