Farewell iPhone mini

I am a big fan of the iPhone mini. Ever since iPhone 5, I missed that size when I had an iPhone 6s and I really held out for a long time for a new phone, maybe too long.

When the iPhone mini came out - I ordered it right away. I love the small screen and full spec guts. It’s the best of both worlds, why don’t small phones sell more??

Well, one thing about small phones, they display less. As I age, I notice my vision, especially anything arms length, is harder to focus at. As a person wearing glasses, I found myself taking my glasses off to focus on things, even my watch!

As a small displays less, there’s a natural hunger for more information. My own desktop setup has two displays: an external monitor and the laptop display. I would have more if my laptop could support it!

These trends just set back the small phone market - there’s hunger for more information AND vision gets bad naturally.

There’s also a third trend I did not realize.

Small phones are harder to engineer!

The face that iPhone mini has the same guts as its larger sibilings, the amount of engineering to squeeze those guts into a smaller package is hard! This video does a great job explaining that.

As the iPhone mini line disappears - I will hold on to my current iPhone mini as long as I can. Maybe until the next small form factor personal communication devices comes.

What could that be? Flip phone? Headsets? Projected displays??

Either way - I’ll be there.