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The first mobile phones to be put on sale in the 1980s were the size and weight of a house brick. They were comically huge, verging on unusable. But if technology is about anything, it’s about miniaturisation.
Over the next 15 years they started to shrink, and by the turn of the century you could buy a clamshell phone smaller than the palm of your hand. Then, despite our hands remaining very much the same size, phones began to grow again.
Today, the largest on the market – the Samsung Galaxy S20+ with its 6.7-inch screen, or the similarly sized iPhone 12 Pro Max – are hits, but smaller phones have become passe.