Manufacturers don’t make displays under 6 inches available for purchase, with special cases (such as the iPhone Mini) being made under exclusive contracts. The best lead they have so far is to try to use displays designed for the front part of a foldable phone, but they’re yet to strike an agreement.
TIL that display manufacturers are also part of the reason why we aren’t getting small phones and why it’s probably even harder for manufacturers like Fairphone to make them.
It’s not really that complicated, people expect high end phones to have all day battery, which is hard to do with a small phone.
It would stand to reason that a smaller screen would lend to less power draw both for the screen’s power usage and being able to use a lower resolution keeping the CPU draw lower too
If only high end smartphone chips focus more on efficiency rather than performance, which for most people is already powerful enough for day to day use.
They could make a small screen phone, but thicker to make more room for a bigger battery.