I wish 2g and 3g weren't being dismantled. I want to go back to using my old razr

The weight scale is misrepresented, though.

"we" = "they"

Anyone remember when Steve Jobs said in response to adding video support to the iPod that "nobody wants to watch videos on a handheld?" And then just a few months later, iPods got support for images and videos?

Porn, this meme used to say porn! Why do we keep self censoring?

By stuff you mean animated GIFs of big breasted horse hung transgender anthropomorphic lions being violated by giant alien tentacles, right?

Just say porn

We didn't "realise" we could watch stuff; we got touch screen technology, wifi and mobile data became cheaper as we got 3G, 4G and 5G. The we *could *watch stuff, and browse the internet - this was always the obvious course of phones even in the 90s when bricks were still around. Meanwhile battery tech hasn't moved forwards much, so these big screen, wifi, Bluetooth & 5G connected,video playing devices need bigger batteries to keep going all day. Ironically a bigger device - even with a bigger screen - will have a longer battery life because you can physically fit a bigger battery in.

Also this chart stops at 2015 - and thats still accurate. Mobile phone tech has plateaued. Time was, iPhone launches each year were a big deal because Apple was good at bringing previously out a of reach tech into the mass market. Now all the changes are minor and phone launches are dull. iPhones are now just popular because they're iPhones. Chips are getting a bit more energy efficient pushing the capabilities a bit; but cameras, screens, storage and connectivity are probably as good as they're going to get for now beyone incremental changes.

We're now probably in the enshittification phase where companies try to justify ever increasing prices but can't - iPhone prices have been largely static for 5 years because Apple can't find a compelling reason to increase them. Whether there are stupid notches in the phone display, or expensive accessories like wireless headphones or now trying to up-sell people on software / services - ultimately a phone is just a phone now. The manufacturers latest hope is that somehow AI will allow them to charge more but it's looking like AI in it's current form has little value to consumers. Apple has delayed it's changes to Siri because it's struggling to make something that isn't basically just another unreliable overhyped LLM.

Realistically the next real leap in phones will probably only come if and when battery tech improves; if smaller high energy density batteries come then that really will unlock a new revolution. The AI bubble doesn't look like it's going to deliver.

Look at all that screen real estate. Utterly wasted on ads and super tall fonts.

I think a lot of the reason phones are getting bigger is because of battery life. You can absolutely make a small phone with a big battery, but then it would be thicc and people (read plebs) don’t want little bricks, they want big slabs.

So for the few of us that want little bricks, we’re just entirely fucked. There are the Jelly phones, but they run Android, and I’d rather have a slab that spies on me a little less than a perfect brick filled to the brim with Google spyware.

I’m waiting and hoping and waiting and hoping that Linux phones get to the point where I can daily drive one.

Would love a slightly thicker phone with a huge removable battery

I have small hands and I hate how few small phones there are now

This graphic is missing the (de)evolution in phones when manufacturers unnecessarily started putting holes and notches in the screens.

#StopPuttingCutoutsInMyFuckingDisplays #BringBackBezels

and the battery life 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

The modern 170 g is larger than the older 170 g, what a crock of shit

From this graph we can say the Razr was peak

More like corporations realized that people with larger screens tend to browse more content and spend more time in their phones, so they made it the only available option, whether you like it or not.