For instance, would you carry an iPhone the size of a shoebox if the rest of the space was a battery? Would you even be willing to carry one of the 80s phones that had a satchel?
if it doesn’t fit in my pocket, i won’t carry it. i do not accessorize.
Considering how hard it was for me to find one small enough last time, we’ve already gone past it years ago
I mean, when Lethal Weapon came out this was a real state of the art cell phone people were thrilled to have
In times of old, giant cell phones and lengthy, expressive saxophone interludes it was all anyone ever needed. It even came with a carrying strap for added convenience. Where’s that attention to detail now?
Was the carrying strap in case you needed to perform a lengthy, expressive saxophone interlude WHILE making a phone call?
I think 7" phones are already pushing it, large phones are inconvenient for one-handed use. A shoebox-sized iPhone is just an iPad …
Oh, no, I mean full shoebox volume. Like 20lbs of battery with a phone glued to the smallest side.
I think you need only look back at the first mobile phones in the 1980s to find your answer to that.
The first mobile phones and I mean prior to the first Nokias were undesirable at any price level due to consisting of overly heavy nicad batteries. As another mentioned: 1987 Lethal Weapon showed this issue. The only other niche market they could squeeze these stupid huge shoesized battery phones was in cars.
Anything bigger than the current trend of phones is too big and there’s plenty of comedy skits like these demonstrating the ridiculousness of it all.
Happy TV from 2000:
I don’t mind a large phone as long as it fits in my pocket. My first phone was the original Galaxy Note, which people thought was extreme at the time but now looks normal. My current phone is the Pixel Fold, which has smaller dimensions than most of my other phones but is twice as thick due to the folding aspect. Unfolded it’s a small tablet bigger than any phone I’ve had, but folded it’s actually pretty compact if you get over the thickness.
As long as it has backpack straps, I’m good.
Really it’s about constraints yeah?
- Needs to fit in pocket
- Needs to be convenient to hold up to your face for phone calls
- Needs to be small enough to be holdable in one hand (highly individual)
- Needs to be big enough that you can use the touchscreen effectively (highly individual)
So really you can just use the size of an average pocket and hand as a guide and go from there. Once it stops fitting in pockets and hands, it has to go in the bag, and typing becomes very difficult as you have to prop up the device, which means people won’t use it as much and get annoyed with it.
If it’s just battery life, you can get bags and such nowadays with convenient rechargable battery packs in them. You don’t need to change the device at all. If you want more screen size as a bigger person, there’s XL versions of phones. Other than that there’s no reason to get a bigger phone
I just want a smallish 5-6 inch screen with a 4:3 ratio and a decent camera.
I mean, people carried these by their convenient handle back in the day. The lead-acid battery just built character.
I know people who had them or similar versions. Not a single person carried them around. They took them from their house to their car to their office. Sometimes then never left the car. They didn’t get moved around like a current cellphone.
Has to fit in the faraday bag
about the size of the one in this music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3_drgbsLRE
has to fit in the old prison wallet.
Adding a single layer of 18680 cells to my phone would increase battery capacity six times at cost of extra 300g in weight and +18mm in thickness, perhaps less if we’re removing regular battery and reorganizing internals. This would allow it to be charged every 10-15 days, perhaps more, and it’s still reasonably sized
Literal brick sized phone would increase battery capacity 30-50x which would be good for charging once per two to three months, that’s probably more than enough, and taking it abroad plane would be prohibited
Shoebox sized battery pack (33x21x13 cm) would fit 378 18680 cells, which at 18.9kg and 1200€ would be 1320Ah, which should be good for two years or more on a single charge, and it stores more electrical energy than 4kg of TNT releases when exploded
We’re getting close. This is an oldy lol.
My pocket.
