There’s a balance point somewhere between size and battery life with resolution as a catalyst. Small phone = small battery.
The Xperica Z3C achieved ridiculous things in that space (I could get 5 days normal use out of it after rooting and tweaking kernel etc).
You couldn’t do that today though. Nobody is going to buy a phone at the resolution required to pull it off, and it would be under powered to boot.
I think this is why even “small” phones like the Zenfone aren’t really even that small…they have to be big enough to fit a decent battery. Power demands have increased and you can’t fight physics.
There’s a balance point somewhere between size and battery life with resolution as a catalyst. Small phone = small battery.
The Xperica Z3C achieved ridiculous things in that space (I could get 5 days normal use out of it after rooting and tweaking kernel etc).
You couldn’t do that today though. Nobody is going to buy a phone at the resolution required to pull it off, and it would be under powered to boot.
I think this is why even “small” phones like the Zenfone aren’t really even that small…they have to be big enough to fit a decent battery. Power demands have increased and you can’t fight physics.