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by twiceaday 282 days ago
This phone has the highest screen area to weight ratio except for the Galaxy S25 Edge.
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And this is good or matters to customers because?
There’s no rational answer to this.

They want thin phones for the same reason they like fast cars. The same reason that ice cream tastes good.

Why do (some) people like jazz music?

Phones are the leading cause of RSI.
The Osborne 1 weighed ~25 pounds. I'm glad computer makers have put in the work to make computers faster and lighter over time.
Easier to drop in the toilet?
That's a great piece of marketing straight out of Apple's Big Number Book of Important Numbers, but _who the fuck cares_ ?

Aside from a tiny amount of nerds needing post hoc rationalisation as to why they blew $1500 on a gimmick, absolutely nobody will go looking for a phone and consider grams/mm² as an important measure.