Manufacturers don’t make displays under 6 inches available for purchase, with special cases (such as the iPhone Mini) being made under exclusive contracts. The best lead they have so far is to try to use displays designed for the front part of a foldable phone, but they’re yet to strike an agreement.
TIL that display manufacturers are also part of the reason why we aren’t getting small phones and why it’s probably even harder for manufacturers like Fairphone to make them.
I have yet to have a problem with it myself.
I don’t doubt that it might have problems occasionally, but the push to get rid of it seems to mostly stem from companies pushing their online storage plans instead. Which is not something I would ever want to rely on.
It’s not that I want to depend on storage, much like I’m sure people who want smaller phones don’t want exclusively smaller phones, or people who want headphones want it to the exclusion of other connectivity options… they just want an option that’s sadly disappearing.
I want the option of expandable storage, even if it’s not on every phone.
If you really want expandable storage for media you can buy teeny tiny usb sticks that you can plug in when you want to use them. Not perfect but a viable alternative.
Personally I stream everything and I back everything up to the cloud, but more options are always good and I’m 100% for additional storage options.