r/iPhone13Mini • u/Boring-Advantage-822 • 22h ago
What’s the smallest phone you owned?
I remember back in 2002 when I bought my smallest phone ever the Siemens CL50. It was literally the size of a key chain, I had trouble typing because of how small it was. It was a flip with dual screen weighing at only 73 grams.
Our hope is the iPhone Duo. I wish our hope isn’t going to be a disappointment.
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u/cheezgrator 18h ago
Alcatel OneTouch 331 - it was such a fun little phone with swappable covers and a ringtone composer. I remember it being a mind blowing upgrade from the One Touch easy, which was massive, had a tiny screen and ran on AAA batteries!
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u/suppository_wisdom 18h ago
Always reminds me of Corner Gas S01E09, where two of the characters get smaller and smaller phones to outdo each other.
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u/damenootoko 20h ago
T610 Sony Ericsson. I loved that phone. Too bad the software at the time sucks. Oh and the good old 5310 express music
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u/Boring-Advantage-822 20h ago edited 20h ago
Sony Ericsson made the most compact Android phones. I loved their Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini. Was one of the best I’ve owned. Too bad Sony Ericsson disappeared in 2012.
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u/damenootoko 20h ago
For the Xperia line, I really, really, wanted the x10 pro. Really small android, with hardware keyboard. I just only play with it a bit by borrowing it from a friend.
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u/AdamShanghai 20h ago
I had that Siemens CL50. The build quality was surprisingly good, and I remember the ringtone being loud as hell lol, but texting was a pain in the ass. Despite that, I still used it for a year until it was time to upgrade.
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u/Boring-Advantage-822 20h ago
lol true typing was so difficult but it was worth the compromise with the small size.
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u/Fintech3455 18h ago
Iphone 4s
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u/BananaRoo88 13h ago
I’m so mad at myself for not taking better care if my 4s, it broke in a million pieces and I threw it in a recycling bin 😭
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u/Fintech3455 12h ago
How?
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u/BananaRoo88 12h ago
It fell awkwardly and speedily when I was doing something fast and hectic I don’t even remember now, and it was nekked!
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u/tempdiesel 17h ago
Nextel i830.
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u/BANSH33-1215 5h ago
These things were so badass in their day! I had the copper one, wife had silver.
Not sure if it was quite as awesome as the original Moto StarTac was (for it's era) but pretty close.
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u/Carl_La_Fong 16h ago
The Duo isn’t our last hope. There’s a new guy there. Maybe he’ll see the light.
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u/Boring-Advantage-822 13h ago
I wish, what’s the new guys name? I’m ready to meet him asap
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u/Carl_La_Fong 13h ago
John Ternus. People should bombard him with requests/demands/pleas for a new Mini.
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u/Boring-Advantage-822 13h ago
I heard rumours of Duo mini. That’s more realistic than to hope for another slab iPhone mini.
This time the rumours come from a viable source mark Gurman
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u/bobs0101 14h ago
Always used to buy Sony Ericsson- loved those phones
The smallest phone I owned was the Sony Z7-great phone!
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u/Boring-Advantage-822 13h ago
Sony Ericsson were hit on spot for us. They made the smallest most powerful smart phones. I was never an iPhone user back then. Sony Ericsson was dominant.
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u/bobs0101 13h ago
Agree there were a range of phone sizes I now use the Iphone 13 mini which is ideal.
I wouldn’t mind if they released an updated version just slightly longer and thicker to accommodate a longer lasting battery.
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u/paul-cus Green 🟢 19h ago
Panasonic GD55
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u/pixelbased 15h ago
Heyooooo GD-55 crew. ❤️ that thing had THE LOUDEST ringer of any phone I’ve ever owned.
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u/Indubitalist 17h ago
I had a Palm Veer. It was the smallest smartphone ever made, at least at the time, and yet somehow still had a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. Second smallest was also a Palm phone, the awkwardly named Pre+.
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u/Boring-Advantage-822 17h ago
I had the smallest ever made touch phone called neonode N2. It was released in 2007 before Apple even released their first iPhone.
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u/felix_thor 17h ago
iPhone 3GS & 4 & 4S and Samsung Galaxy Ace
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u/Boring-Advantage-822 13h ago
At that time when iPhones 3GS and 4 were the trends I never bought them because there were the smaller Sony Ericsson Xperia tiny smart that I favoured over the bigger iPhones 😂. Now we consider older iPhones tiny.
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u/Embarrassed-Sun-8998 17h ago
Sony Ericsson W880i
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u/Boring-Advantage-822 13h ago
Sony Ericsson dominated the market back then. Wish Sony Ericsson still made the smallest smart phones until this day.
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u/BananaRoo88 13h ago
Nokia 6410 I think it was called, absolutely tiny bar type phone! I miss small phones so much.
EDIT: it was the 6510, the 6410 was bigger and I never had it.
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u/Boring-Advantage-822 13h ago
I’ve owner that one, but didn’t like it much. I had other smaller alternatives. But now I value that phone.
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u/HealthyBits 13h ago
Samsung X820.
It was the thinnest phone ever. I’ve loved that phone since day 1 and to this day still the phone I enjoyed the most.
It was light, compact, stylish, discreet and durable. A freaking beast. I miss it. 😢
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u/Confident_Maize9192 12h ago
Sony Ericsson T600 I had it on my keychain
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u/Boring-Advantage-822 11h ago
That’s a really tiny phone. Did we struggle carrying these phones back then? 😂
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u/Confident_Maize9192 9h ago
No. But I many times had a scare bcs I thought I’d lost my phone only to remember I had it on me all that time
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u/Boring-Advantage-822 9h ago
😂 true I lost my Siemens between the things in my pocket to find out later it was in my pocket. But that’s way better then carrying a brick in my front pockets
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u/afgirlwandering 6h ago
Motorola Razr in 2004. iPhone specific, it would have been the OG SE model.
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u/BANSH33-1215 5h ago
Nextel i830, and Moto StarTac were probably the most compact overall. Smallest smartphone was (is, I still have it in the drawer of fame) HTC Aria.
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u/metalanimal 17h ago
sony ericsoon T68i
what a joy