With the iPhone XR and XS Max, the little phone is officially dead

So long, little phones! This is true WednesdayApple has announced its trio of new iPhones, and with that, the company has put the last nail in the coffin for restarting a small mobile phone.

That's because the new range includes the 5.8-inch iPhone XS, the 6.1 inches iPhone XR and the 6.5 inches XS Max. Suddenly, the biggest iPhone of last year is now the smallest option this year. Add to that the fact that Apple is interrupt the 4 inches iPhone SE, and all that means one thing: give up all hope of owning a new small smartphone, iOS, Android or whatever you have. Personally, as the owner of baby hands myself, it's downright disappointing. It's a feeling that I'm not the only one to have.

I blame the Samsung Galaxy Note. When released in 2011, its 5.3-inch screen (which is even more huge today) seemed almost comical. I say "almost" because we knew that there was a function at that time of King Kong. Samsung introduced the note for the advanced user and the integrated S-Pen pushed that productivity angle further. It was a niche product. Not exactly like the only one Samsung Galaxy Beam, with its light projector, or vertically curved Round galaxy – but it had a specific purpose and I thought it would only serve a specific group of phone users.

After all, suddenly every phone had to be big. There was the ridiculously square 5-inch LG Optimus Vu, the 5.9 inches barely bearable HTC One Max and the 6 inches Nokia Lumia 1520 (that everything on this phone stays in peace) to name a few. Things got so out of control that we had to create the cheese rack "phablet" just to distinguish these Paul Bunyan devices from human-sized phones.

But then, somewhere, some lines got blurred. Phablets began to appear archaic because each phone began to stretch. And people wanted to see more things on their phones as display technology improved, resolution increased, colors became brighter, and "30 Rock" was broadcast on Netflix.

The phone companies would say that they just give people what they want. And the numbers prove it: by 2021, 1 billion phones with screens of 5.5 inches or more are expected to sell on the market and will overtake the smaller phones by 2019. But everyone does not like the disappearance of these devices every time you sit or you need two hands, just type a small text message. We have come to the point where we need to glue accessories to the back of our phones to hold them firmly. What happened? How are we lost on this path? When did we become indebted to these giant phones and their septum-piercing-door-knocker accessories?

There are some phones with a small screen like the Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact, the rumor new Palm phone and the Zoolander worthy of a Unihertz Atom, with its 2.5-inch screen. But if you are an iOS user, you may not want to switch to a very specific Android phone, and this Palm phone is not even technically real to our knowledge. The last bastion of hope was a update to the brave iPhone SE, what people really likedbut that does not seem to be happening anytime soon. Seen by the company's enthusiasm for "bigness" in his video below (we get it Apple! It's big!)

In addition, all these phones could use a bump in the specifications. Do not assume that because I want a small phone, I also want a budget phone. I want my little phone to wreak havoc with the latest high-performance specifications. I understand that means the space the engineers are working on is smaller, so thicken the phone! It's good. My little hands hobbit but not so hairy would prefer this form factor than another phone that only Godzilla can use.

One of the reasons Apple was late for the giant phone revolution was that co-founder Steve Jobs apparently thought that the original iPhones (with screens of just 3.5 inches) were the perfect size. Apple has even aired an ad touting the ease of navigation on the iPhone 5 with its simple thumb. This is only after 2012, a year after his death, that the phones began to seep to just four inches and that the bigger ones were following. But Apple has always surpassed Android models in screen size until this year: the 6.5-inch iPhone XS Max Galaxy Note 9 by a little

Yes, you can still buy a new 4.7 inches iPhone 7 and iPhone 8 discounted models, at least for next year. But with the 4-inch OS gone, the small screens feel as old-fashioned in Apple's line as the now-obsolete button. I think seeing an iPhone SE 2 next spring – for example, a Face ID phone with a 4.7-inch screen built into a 4-inch body – would be a big niche in which Apple could come back. Maybe even something that the company could sell at a price a bit high. But in my heart, I know it's more a pipe dream.

So with this latest batch of iPhones, we can kiss the little screen to hope goodbye and listen to this playlist of songs on little hands. Goodbye small phones, it was nice all this time.