iPhone SE 2020 is proof that Apple won’t actually bring back the little phone

After more than four years, Apple announced its new iPhone SE back in April, and I imagine that fans of small phones jumped for joy upon hearing the news. The iPhone SE, which looks like a iPhone 8 but it presents the iPhone 11is powerfull A13 chipsetIt also has a 4.7-inch screen.

Apple claims it is a “small” phone. Cast is the smallest (and cheapest) iPhone currently available in the Apple lineup. It is also relatively compact by today’s telephony standards, and compared to, for example, the popular Galaxy S20, which has a 6.2-inch screen. But at 4.7 inches, the iPhone SE 2020 is about 20% larger than the original iPhone SE, which had just a 4-inch screen.

If you were expecting something really small, the iPhone SE 2020 doesn’t work on that front. Apple’s decision not to build a new 4-inch phone is telling. Indicates that the company will probably never bring back the small iphone, no matter how badly people crave it.

Personally, I agree. Because we are in 2020 and I want a big phone. And because big screens simply offer a better and more immersive user experience. For me, “portability” is secondary compared to those benefits. From making credit card payments and joining Zoom calls to follow a banana bread On YouTube, I spend more time than ever in front of my phone, for better or for worse.

And if I’m using my phone for hours, I want to enjoy using it. Or at least, I don’t want to have to struggle to see my screen while doing more unpleasant tasks (like paying a credit card bill, for example). Big phones can do that for me.

But my perception of what is big and what is small in terms of phones has evolved over the years. I wasn’t always that big a fan of big screens, nor did I subscribe to the axiom “bigger is better”. In fact, I used to love my 4.7-inch iPhone 8, which I held on to for years. But when I upgraded to iPhone X In 2018, it was almost a punishment to go back to something smaller.

Every time I use my iPhone 8 It feels like it’s been transported back in time, and not in a good way, as I can feel my eyes tighten as I try to navigate its interface, which now seems disturbingly messy to me. Reading news and watching videos on iPhone 8 had become an unpleasant experience compared to iPhone X. Either way, I think there is an upper limit to how these phones should grow.

Phone manufacturers have been offering increasingly larger phones as the years go by. They know that screen size is one of the most important pictures of a phone. But the giant phone trend For real started in 2011 with the first galaxy note. Samsung took a risk and released the 5.3-inch Note, which looked huge back then, or as one analyst put it, as a “dork flagThe Note ushered in the big phone craze, and it’s one of the reasons Apple finally produced my beloved 5.8-inch iPhone X in 2017.

Now the phones are even bigger. Just take a look at the 2020 phone season so far: Within the Galaxy S20 family of phones, the S20 Ultra It has a massive 6.9-inch screen. Oppo released its 6.7-inch super premium Find X2 Pro, and Motorola unveiled the 6.7-inch Edge Plus in April, its first true flagship in years. There is also leaking rumors that Apple will launch an iPhone 12 Pro Max That could also be as big as 6.7 inches. Sorry, fans of small phones, it’s clear that the trend for big phones is here to stay.