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by panpanna 2164 days ago
If Sony ever brings back Xperia Mini I will be a happy man.

I don't want the best camera or the fastest cpu. Can live with a tiny display. Just give me something that can run Android 10 reasonably well in a tiny package and you have my money.
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Doctor_Fegg 2164 days ago
Oh, I loved the X10 Mini. Especially the one with the little slide-out keyboard. I typed better on that than I do on my much larger iPhone.
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as1mov 2164 days ago
I had the X10 Mini Pro. The slide out keyboard was absolutely amazing for emulation + doing sysadmin tasks. The only alternative these days is the F(x)tec Pro [1], but it's quite expensive :(

[1]: https://store.fxtec.com/product/fxtec-pro1/

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jbay808 2164 days ago
Do you mean the Xperia Compact, or did they have a separate Mini line too?

I love Sony's phones, but their product naming confuses me to no end...

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panpanna 2164 days ago
I 100% agree with you. Their latest flagship is named "1 II" (that's Xperia one, mark two. Someone should be fired for this).

Anyway, I was thinking of the original mini line not the later compact line. The first mini, "x10 mini", was too small to run the standard Android launcher so I would prefer the newer slightly larger "mini":

https://www.phonearena.com/phones/size/Apple-iPhone-SE-2020,...

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as1mov 2164 days ago
The Compact models are newer, the Mini line was popular when they were called Sony-Ericsson. Though I agree with the naming scheme issues, my first smartphone was a Xperia X10 Mini Pro[1], which was quite a mouthful.

[1]: https://www.gsmarena.com/sony_ericsson_xperia_x10_mini_pro-3...

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