iPhone 16 Plus review: Apple’s battery beast https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/22/iphone-16-plus-review-apple-battery-beast #Mobilephones #Smartphones #Technology #Phablets #iPhone #Apple

@kev I've recently switched from a #Pixel 4a to #Pixel8.

The 8 is considered a smaller sized smartphone (compared to too many others) but it feels huge and really heavy compared to my old #Pixel4a which doesn't get any support any more.

I guess the current trend stays in favor for #phablets, whose definition changed over time because almost all #smartphone models would be phablets these days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phablet

@Swede1952 @ety @x00001 I'm serious...

In fact such "#FWT" or "Fixed Wireless Terminal" adaptors are actually quite common, as they basically allow folks to keep their beloved phones - espechally those with hearing aid compatibility or additional functions like a wireless emergency button - and just transition from (sadly discontinued and) expensive "basic landline" to cheap pay-as-you postpaid or prepaid plans.

• In some cases they even allow people to port their landline number to some providers, so that i.e. seniors can retain their decades-old number and in return get like good reception because most FWTs come with an option to plug in an external antenna...

OFC those boxes exist in various forms, from something akin to a Router like the Fritz!Box LTE series to the more commonplace "Trashcan"-esque cylinders for #5G-#MIMO. Sadly most don't include like a batter backup but there are also "#GSM #DeskPhone|s" that are basically #StupidPhones (some absurdly expensive ones are just bulky #smartphones, #Phablets if not #Tablets) with dedicaded physical buttons and aside from being able to send/recieve #SMS and potentially offer a #WiFi hotspot as well as almost always have a prominently large antenna sticking out the back, they look like your average Desktop Phone from an office...

I bought a new phone, Google Pixel 7a, the screen’s 6.1″ diagonally and it’s featured on lists of the smallest, most compact smartphones available…

and I remember how, years ago, I had a Motorola Milestone (aka DROID1), 3.7″, and my friends used to make fun of me saying I was “carrying a television in my pocket”

#android #smartphones #pixel7a #phablets

Remember when phablets were a thing? Used to see people with those stupidly large tablets that they were trying to use as phones. I never owned one but had a sneaking respect for anybody that had one.
I had hoped that we'd have flat scroll type displays by now that would expand or roll up as requiref. Not those worryingly fragile golding phones.
#phablets #technology #thoughts

@izaya +9001%

I want #smol #Smartphones that ain't huge-ass #phablets...

Something more akin to the original #iPhoneSE in form factor...

I'd even accept a 1080p or 720p screen for a 3" device...

Im Jahr 2011 kam mit dem Samsung Galaxy Note das erste Phablet auf den Markt. Es hatte ein 5,3 Zoll großes Display. Das mit Abstand kleinste Smartphone, welches in der Mittel- oder Oberklasse heutzutage angeboten wird, ist das iPhone mini mit 5,4 Zoll.

Die durchschnittliche Bildschirmdiagonale liegt mittlerweile bei ca. 6,5 Zoll. Warum das so ist, versuchen wir in einem #pyngumagazin Artikel zu erläutern.

https://pyngu.com/magazin/design/phablets/

#Phablets #ScreenSize #Design
#pyngurocks