It was in 2013 that I acquired my first Apple Mobile, an iPhone 4S. Yes, I know that that year, the iPhone 5S would be launched, but why an excuse invented me: at that time, I did not work and my budget was limited, so the acquisition of a model that was released a year and a half was more practical. However, there was another reason for weight (literally) and it ended up falling in love with: The size.
Of course, being my first experience with iOS, I also started to fall in love with the virtues of the Apple operating system. However, that he had barely 3.5 inches made me love him at a time when phableThis term so forgotten now was gaining ground.
Today, I have manipulated with an iPhone 16 Plus, which with its 6.7 inch is far not only from these 3.5 of the iPhone 4S, to the Galaxy Note 3, one of the launchers of the time of the big phones and with its 5.7 inches felt gigantic. Consequently, having recently analyzed the Google Pixel 9a for Xataka made me Feelings found.
“What most cuca”
It was literally the sentence that I released Jose García, my partner and analysis director in Xataka. It was my first reaction after receiving the Pixel 9a at home and getting it out of the box. I accompanied it with another revealing sentence “I forgot what it was to use normal -size mobiles”. And stay with this “normal”, that I will tell you the reason why you use this term and not “small”.
I will not talk about the virtues of Pixel 9a and the rest of the elements that won me when I try it. I have already done so in the aforementioned analysis that I recommend reading if you are interested. In Ppplesfera, I wanted to count How much I enjoyed going from a large to a normal terminal. There have been resignations, of course, but compensated by the advantages.
If it is true that I was lost to enjoy more comfortable videos, I won in comfort. Managing a 6.3 -inch terminal like Pixel 9a is a delight Even with one handSomething almost unthinkable with my iPhone 16 Plus, despite the tips that damage it. I'm not even telling you how much I could even in the small pockets.
I have reconciled with a more natural way to interact with the mobile
To this, we add a weight of only 186 grams. Are 13 grams less than my iPhone And perhaps written, it seems small, but I guarantee that it is a difference that is seen.
And then there is the theme of prolonged use. It is surprising to know how much the experience changes when you spend an hour to read, navigate or write messages on a lighter and more compact device. With Pixel 9a, I did not feel this doll fatigue which appears with the iPhone 16 Plus after a more intensive time of use. It is as if, suddenly, I had reconciled with a more natural way to interact with the mobile.
This is not the first compact mobile that I have tried in recent years, it's true. In fact, some have crossed my hands to analyze in Xataka Mobile or Xataka Android. However, there were many more than 6.5 inches. Therefore, the use of the Pixel 9a assumed me a meeting with the feelings that I thought I was overcome.
Which prevents me from acquiring a small iPhone
Soon that you know the iPhone catalog, you wondered why if I like small mobiles, why I did not opt for terminals such as the iPhone 16 or iPhone 16 pro, with screens of 6.1 and 6.3 inch respectively. The answer is easy: The battery.
The iPhone of these sizes has improved a lot of autonomy in these latest generations. However, They are still light years of “pro max” and “more”. They will never equal them or not at least at least their counterparts of the same generation, but the difference in my experience was so great that it made me impracticable to use them. It is something that with Pixel 9a that I did not feel, that thanks to its combination of software and hardware, in addition to a 5100 mAh battery, she gave me for a day and a half.
Maybe it changes in the immediate future. In fact, he started to change. The even recent iPhone 16th 16.1 inch, stands out, in particular in autonomy by offering up to two hours more than a standard iPhone 16 and all thanks to its C1 chip, Apple's first 5G modem which gives it better energy efficiency and which aims to reach the iPhone 17.
Accept the octopus as a business animal
If you remember it, a few lines have spoken of Pixel 9a as a “normal” size terminal and not small “. However, it is not really small or normal. Not at least if with” normal “, we want to refer to what abounds on the market, on which The majority of mobiles today, in any range, are about 6.5 to 6.6 inches. And climb.
The term phable He ended up dying when 5.5 inch terminals were already usual and more when This size has become ridiculous for a mobile of our time When the diagonal increases thanks to the reduction of front frames. The best proof of this change is also in Apple; The iPhone 6, 6s, 7 and 8 Plus had 5.5 inches being the biggest terminals in Apple's history until these moments. Today, its smallest terminal is 6.1 inches (the largest, 6.9 inches).
Small mobiles do not exist. And those who catalogs as compact to compare them to the standard are injured in death. They are no longer really compact phones and even Apple has surrendered. The Californian firm was the one that continued to bet on them, with terminals such as the iPhone 12 Mini and the iPhone 13 Mini. There was no more.
We have the fault. All in general, although none in particular. Many, and here I include myself with the first person, we fill our mouths by often asking for compact mobiles with those who move away from almost 7 years of madness. We love them, but we don't buy them.
And if …
IPhone 17 pro Mobble based on filtration (image: kdctweets)
… My next iPhone is not a big iPhone? No one knows that September will last, so close and so far at the same time. But if the thing does not change too much, everything indicates that I will be part of those who will be presented in the first iPhone. One of the new ones that occur then, of course. It will be my birthday whim.
However, I must admit something (and since you imagine). I was very clear that the iPhone 17 Pro Max was going to be my next phone. However, I think I changed my mind and I am more clear than ever The size counts, but not as I thought.
After my recent experience, I rediscovered Less can be moreThat day-to-date comfort weighs more than a few centimeters of screen, and it may be time to stop thinking so much about the specifications and more on how we really use the mobile. Choosing a large iPhone no longer seems to me the most obvious choice.
Image | Assembly with photography by Álvaro García M. for Applesfera and Mike Lau in Flickr
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