I don&#x27;t think anyone argues that bigger phones shouldn&#x27;t exist, that they don&#x27;t have plenty of good uses, or even that they shouldn&#x27;t be more popular than smaller ones. I can think of more advantages of a bigger phone (for users in general) than disadvantages. What&#x27;s irritating is just not having the choice, and especially not having the option to get an updated version of the thing you were already happily using. I grumble about this a lot myself (e.g. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10764713" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10764713</a>).<p>If typical mainstream phones are designed &amp; built with a lead time of a year or more, &amp; if a company was planning to release a small one soon, &amp; that company was less secretive than Apple, we&#x27;d surely know about it already. There are rumours about Apple, and if they turn out not to be true, then we maybe have to conclude that no new small single-hander smartphone (as we know the device now) will ever appear again.