Both Apple and Google delivered flagship optics in a compact flagship, but it took small phones getting bigger to get there.
Table of Contents We’ve had companies try making small phones in the past, but they couldn’t stand the test of time. Apple tried the small iPhones with the iPhone 12 mini and the iPhone 13 mini, but like most small phones, they were plagued by bad battery life and saw underwhelming sales — despite the much-beloved pocketable size.
Related On the Android side, the Galaxy S24 doesn’t have the same camera setup as the Galaxy S24 Ultra — similar to the Google Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro. On Samsung, you get an extra periscope telephoto camera with the Ultra, while the vanilla Pixels have had the zoom lens missing for years without a small Pro Pixel phone.
The new Google Pixel phones also had the same tactics. The company introduced a new XL model while the Pixel 9 Pro shrank in size this year. It allowed Google to deliver three Pixel 9 phones, out of which the Pixel 9 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro XL featured the same camera system but differed in size and price.
I remember shifting from the iPhone 14 Pro Max to the iPhone 14 Pro and then to the iPhone 15 Pro and missing an all-day battery life. For years, I’ve wanted a comparatively small phone to last me an entire day. The current-gen compact flagships aren’t there yet, and the battery life of the iPhone 16 Pro has only worsened with each update. But both the iPhone 16 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro are getting there.
For context, the Vivo X200 Pro Mini offers a larger battery than the biggest Pixel phone. The Pixel 9 Pro XL has a 5,060mAh battery, while the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra has a 5,000mAh cell. This is only possible because of the latest innovation in battery tech, which gave us silicon carbon batteries.
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