Often the first thing to be compared, size only matters in certain respects and understanding that appears to be very difficult, even for "experts." For thinking people it is difficult to understand how the “my phone is better” assertion is upheld by distinctions of about a millimeter or less. Alright, yes, your screen is bigger, but pointing this out as an advantage makes people look like idiot children having tantrums.
There are more critical areas though, right, like thickness! This measure is far more relevant to other things than phones, incidentally, but that's digression. I doubt you can find a phone thicker than 17mm these days, and most are close to 10mm. With that standard, 1mm is 10%. Nonetheless, it’s just not that significant. Anything that’s that close is not really worth mentioning and certainly not worth touting. Half an inch makes a difference in any dimension. Sometimes less than that makes an appreciable difference - sometimes. Learn to distinguish when it counts.
Here’s more problems with small differences in numbers. Pixel count reviews are a pain to listen to. If one phone has 320 p.p.i. and another has 332 p.p.i. do Not sit there and tell me you can see how much sharper the second picture is, because I will know you are full of bull-pucci. After 300 p.p.i. the human eye gets lazy. It’s even harder to tell the difference between 332 p.p.i. and 350 p.p.i. even though the spread is greater. So up to a point, this is certainly important, but again, learn to distinguish the relevant ranges.
Weight is yet another place where this happens. If one phone is 179g and the other is 170g, for heaven's sake stop telling me how much more 'hefty' the first one feels. It is true that the human hand is perfectly capable of distinguishing 10g difference, but for raw "meatiness" people still wrap their hands around a roll of quarters to throw their weight around - not around a mobile phone. Besides, there is another consideration of tactility that is by far more useful.
Now people who don't understand what's being said here will often counter with "Oh, so you think screen size makes no difference, Well! I'll tell you..." And sometimes I'm happy such people exist; like when I need to feel superior but I'm too lazy to go to a bar full of undergrads or those times when my nigh-impregnable fortress is beset by an angry mob of straw men. Of course screen size makes a difference! But instead of quibbling over whose is slightly bigger and who knows how to use theirs better - the first considerations for every individual user should be "how much real-estate do my phone computing purposes require," "how important is it to leave one hand free," and "how big are my hands?" This applies to the entire handset, too.
The upshot is the realization that for different people, different phones are the best. If a person isn't capable of considering themselves the most important factor in getting a phone, I suppose it follows that reviewers won't either. Probably that's just how the manufacturers want it. For the Darkest Roast's purposes, however, that's not good enough.
Next: more commentary on phones, without the childish penile double entendres
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