Best compact phones 2025 - buyer’s guide
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- GXs
- 17 Mar 2025
Problemass, 26 Feb 2025Vivo X200 Pro MiniThere's nothing mini about this phone. Stop falling for a marketting gimmick
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- Anonymous
- pE6
- 10 Mar 2025
Anon 221024, 08 Jan 2025The thing is that people looking for a compact phone care a... moreFrom my experience I never cracked screen of smaller phones (Galaxy Ace, Sony Xperia SP, Galaxy A3), no matter how many times I dropped them. But when the screen gets bigger, things changes radically, because of the physics. I broke the screen of S10e (larger than previous phones) about one year from purchase. For me it seems that manufacturers are not producing smaller phones because it is not good for the business.
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- Problemass
- mNM
- 26 Feb 2025
Vivo X200 Pro Mini
- runt-granny-tiger
- puj
- 26 Feb 2025
It's looking pretty grim. No zenfone last year and it doesn't look like a new one will be announced. And even if it were, ASUS is too far in bad decisions to be trusted again.
Samsung released the same phone as last year, stagnating heavily (S25).
Google has one with subpar hardware.
The only one I am even considering is Xiaomi 15 releasing soon. Yet, that one has problems in terms of software.
Why does it have to be so bad :/ Why are we not progressing?
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- Anonymous
- xyJ
- 25 Feb 2025
Anonymous, 22 Oct 2024Seriously now? They gave the title of the best COMPACT phon... moreThird time in a row now! Wow, this is getting ridiculous... Best compact phone: 1st place goes to a phone that is taller than the *6.9inch* iPhone 16 Pro Max!! For crying out loud.
At least the 2nd place winner is probably the only company that actually tried to make this year's small version even smaller (ever so slightly). Even the iPhone 16 lineup got bigger across the board.
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- Anonymous
- JH9
- 08 Jan 2025
Anon 221024, 08 Jan 2025The thing is that people looking for a compact phone care a... moreI agree with you fully. The "flip" phone concept would still be cool though in my personal opinion, but in sub-6 inch form factor! Screw these phablets, I think I will buy S10e, because I need a cheap, compact phone for part-time work I will be starting soon (I'm a student).
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- Anon 221024
- n7U
- 08 Jan 2025
The thing is that people looking for a compact phone care about one-handed use and see this as a must-have feature even if (supposedly) most people don't mind lugging around a "7-inch chromebook" in their pants. So, for those of us who care about being able to use our phone with one hand, a 6.9" phone makes NO SENSE! It's not primarily an issue of a lack of space, of having big enough pockets or bags to carry it; it all has to do with *handling*. So a flip phone solves nothing and should not be the top recommendation in this category. If anything, having to open and close it every time you want to check anything, makes day-to-day use even more bothersome. We want to mount pressure on manufacturers to cater to our needs as well, so promoting a device that fails to solve the main problem we have with current >150mm tall phones sends the wrong message. For the life of me, I can't understand why they are willing to try all sorts of odd designs and quirky three-folds, flips, you name it, but they just won't give us any sub-6.2-inch options.
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- pww
- 05 Jan 2025
that LG G2 as a remake would be so cool, with the same design and size
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- ulv
- pRa
- 16 Dec 2024
Anonymous, 22 Oct 2024Seriously now? They gave the title of the best COMPACT phon... moreseriously, if that's compact now, wait to see what'll be non-compact in next years.
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- Anonymous
- MWV
- 12 Dec 2024
Does "compact" just mean smaller than a laptop to you guys now? There are no actual compact phones left anymore, you can stop making these articles.
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- hands-over-disklabel
- sn}
- 06 Dec 2024
"Compact"? Yeah sure...
If there was something like gud olde Galaxy S4 but " modernized"...
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- Anonymous
- 8sc
- 24 Nov 2024
My suggestion to open a new category... Cheap compact phones. I ain't spending over 300 USD on a planned obsolescence device, please don't be funny
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- Ruly
- txF
- 22 Nov 2024
There could be compact size that tend to be small phone design which we usually easy to find in the past, let say about 7+ years ago. Nevertheless, current market has proved that palm comfort bigger size are still attracting most people since they use it mostly with 2 hands. 1 hand use just for picking up the phone and partially when scrolling I could say. We might do some observation for some people where they decided to buy a Tablet as a supplement to their smartphone.
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- Homer
- RRJ
- 22 Nov 2024
Face the facts, there is not too much choices for those small palm people in 2024.
In my opinion, there are strict dimensions (142mm/70mm/8mm) and weight (159g) limitation for the "Compact" phone.
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- swa
- 23 Oct 2024
These are not compact phones. Please try to be more professional
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- juanme555
- KkZ
- 22 Oct 2024
Okay , the word "compact" has officially lost all its meaning in 2024 , these are some truly incompetent writters wow.
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- Anonymous
- n7U
- 22 Oct 2024
Seriously now? They gave the title of the best COMPACT phone to a device that is 171.4mm tall??? Two times in a row?! Try using this "compact" device with one hand and reach the notification drawer on the top with your finger! This is a joke!
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- Anonymous
- JH9
- 19 Oct 2024
Vivo x200 pro mini
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- Imran
- CbE
- 09 Oct 2024
Which is the compact smartphones with reasonable amount
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- Anonymous
- 3LN
- 26 Sep 2024
What about the Pixel 9 or 9 Pro instead of the Pixel 8?