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by ebg13 2166 days ago
Absolutely.

At first I was intensely disappointed by the post ("why so wordy?", "why no pictures?"), but then I got to the design part and said "holy shit I want this".

If people are happy with their cargo pants, no worries . It doesn't conform to a lot of current fashion aesthetic, but if that doesn't hit a person's radar, then cool, great. But a lot of people in the thread here are feeling attacked because someone doesn't like to wear the pants they like to wear.

Fashion is aesthetic and therefore subjective, and it changes over time. At one point cargo pants might have even been "cool". I don't remember them ever being "office" though.

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I also really want these! I wear slim-to-skinny jeans and my phone eventually stretches the jean fabric above the pocket and you can see a white outline of my phone. As manufacturers kept increasing mobile screen sizes I'd have to make sure my phone could actually fit in my pocket when buying pants as not every brand consistently use the same pocket depth.

Last time I wore cargo pants (probably the late 90s) I remember everything just annoyingly swing around as I walked.

That sounds like a problem with the obnoxiously large phones as well :p
Sadly the large phone thing seems here to stay, and it’s driving out small phone options :(
I get Pixel phones to get stock Android and reliable updates and the smallest I can get are ~6 inch phones. If a 5 inch Pixel was released I'd buy it in a heartbeat
Things like the Pixel 3a are ~5.5 inch, which is not 5, but better than the full size ones if you don't want a big one.
I have the Pixel 3a right now. It's a 6" phone with a 5.6" display. I was referring to total phone size. On top of that I add a phone case because I've dropped previous phones and caused (slight) damage so it's an absolute must for me. I use the pixel fabric cases google sells which only increases my dimensions to 6.12 in (155.54 mm) x 2.93 in (74.33 mm)

https://store.google.com/us/product/pixel_3a_specs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_3a#Specifications https://store.google.com/us/product/pixel_3a_case_fabric