<story><title>Bring Back the SE</title><url>https://avc.com/2019/09/bring-back-the-se/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dijit</author><text>Every year I wait on bated breath at the release of a similarly compact phone to the SE. I even recently bought a new one right before they removed them from the store, so I have 2 year apple care+ for it to tide me over.&lt;p&gt;Ordinarily I would vote with my wallet, but there are no compact Android phones either.&lt;p&gt;Ironically I still own a Oneplus One which is quite old by todays standards; and I distinctly remember it being called a &amp;quot;Phablet&amp;quot; due to it&amp;#x27;s obtuse stature in comparison to its contemporaries. However it would not look out of place today, in fact in comparison to my friends iPhone Xs (not max) it hardly seems at all larger!&lt;p&gt;I would merrily slam down 1K+ EUR for a real flagship phone at a size I can actually use.&lt;p&gt;(also, I wonder how women get on, since generally they have smaller hands than men.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aczerepinski</author><text>I wouldn&amp;#x27;t even call the SE compact. It&amp;#x27;s just normal. It&amp;#x27;s the size that Steve Jobs said fits comfortably in your hand, and since hand sizes haven&amp;#x27;t changed, it&amp;#x27;s still true today.</text></comment>
<story><title>Bring Back the SE</title><url>https://avc.com/2019/09/bring-back-the-se/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dijit</author><text>Every year I wait on bated breath at the release of a similarly compact phone to the SE. I even recently bought a new one right before they removed them from the store, so I have 2 year apple care+ for it to tide me over.&lt;p&gt;Ordinarily I would vote with my wallet, but there are no compact Android phones either.&lt;p&gt;Ironically I still own a Oneplus One which is quite old by todays standards; and I distinctly remember it being called a &amp;quot;Phablet&amp;quot; due to it&amp;#x27;s obtuse stature in comparison to its contemporaries. However it would not look out of place today, in fact in comparison to my friends iPhone Xs (not max) it hardly seems at all larger!&lt;p&gt;I would merrily slam down 1K+ EUR for a real flagship phone at a size I can actually use.&lt;p&gt;(also, I wonder how women get on, since generally they have smaller hands than men.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sramsay</author><text>A thousand times this.  My absolute number one requirement (after things like, um, the ability to make phone calls) is that it fit in my front-left pocket.  I didn&amp;#x27;t upgrade to the last model for this reason and no other.&lt;p&gt;But I can only assume that Apple does plenty of market research on their products, so I assume people aren&amp;#x27;t checking off &amp;quot;the thing is too damn big&amp;quot; under &amp;quot;reasons I didn&amp;#x27;t upgrade?&amp;quot;</text></comment>