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.
and one of the driving forces behind the design of the Palm Pilot was that it had to fit in a shirt pocket …
I just dug out my palm pilot to check, pretty shocking it’s only about 5.5" diagonal. It seemed huge in the day.