Compact smart phone?

[Ambleton]

My wife and i dont change our phones all that often.

What we've done the last few times (and seemed to work well) is to keep our phones for 4 years, each of us getting a new phone on a 2year stagger.

I have a 2yo galaxy S24 which I'm perfectly happy with and is just fine, i'll switch it over to a SIMO plan and it'll last me another 2yrs hopefully. (I previously had a Pixel4 and wasnt THAT impressed. I found it heavy and a bit cumbersome)

My wife is now due a replacement but everything is now absolutely massive, even bigger than my S24.

Her current phone is an iPhone 13mini. She'd prefer an iPhone but shes also annoyed with the Apple tax so not too precious about it so long as photos and albums can be transferred over without too much hassle.

I dont want to go too mad on budget.

I know whatever, it'll be bigger than the 13mini. Is there anything around thats not massive and/or heavy?

[durbster]

It's tricky to find smaller phones these days isn't it.

GSM Arena is a good resource for this because it lets you filter phones by all sorts of things, including size:
https://www.gsmarena.com/search.php3

[Tymb]

I have a iPhone 13 mini, I hope full updates to be available for at least another couple of years so I’m going to be keeping it as long as possible. I think the only slight annoyance for me is it does not have usb c, it’s got face id, magsafe, 5g and the camera is good enough for what I need, for me I cannot think of any tech I’m missing. I get the impression Apple really tried to make a fully loaded small phone with the 13 mini so even a few years later it has stuff that some of the current lineup doesn’t have.

Doro do some small phones but I think they are more basic. As, when my 13 mini dies I’ll probably look at a iphone air but second hand as the current prices appear to have gone bonkers.

[danb79]

Not smaller, but much lighter - the iPhone Air

It's a great device

Unfortunately no one does small phones any more, they're not wanted, so not produced

But they are getting lighter and thinner

[Greenmantle]

danb79 said:

Not smaller, but much lighter - the iPhone Air

It's a great device

Unfortunately no one does small phones any more, they're not wanted, so not produced

But they are getting lighter and thinner

Does that mean it is more fragile?

[danb79]

Greenmantle said:

danb79 said:

Not smaller, but much lighter - the iPhone Air

It's a great device

Unfortunately no one does small phones any more, they're not wanted, so not produced

But they are getting lighter and thinner

Does that mean it is more fragile?

No; very solidly built - plenty of thin, strong cases out there for it too

I tend to keep mine in its Otterbox magsafe case; but have a very thin Aramid case for it as well

[sgrimshaw]

I prefer smaller phones too, as does my wife.

We both have Sony Xperia 10's and have been using them for many years. They are starting to creep up in size, but are still smaller than most

[Pebbles167]

Fold/flip phones that fold horizontally are pretty small.

I had a recent Motorola Razr that had a good camera, good screen and was relatively cheap. Was thicker than a normal phone when folded but still pretty slim. My girlfriend was amazed as she could get it in her jeans pocket.

[Craikeybaby]

I'm still running an iPhone 12 mini, because I don't want anything bigger.