I’m sorry, but small smartphones aren’t making a comeback

It’s probably no secret to anyone who’s been shopping for a smartphone in the past few years that compact smartphones have all but disappeared. It depends on how you define them, of course. For my purposes, though, I’m referring to fully-featured devices with a display under six inches, and those are a rarity. Even Apple — whose co-founder Steve Jobs once insisted that you should be able to reach every corner of a phone one-handed — no longer sells an iPhone under 6.1 inches. Its biggest model, the 6.9-inch iPhone 17 Pro Max, can feel more like a tablet.