{"id":1181339,"date":"2023-09-12T17:25:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T21:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1181339"},"modified":"2023-09-12T17:25:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T21:25:17","slug":"the-iphone-13-mini-is-dead-leaving-small-phone-lovers-in-a-lurch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1181339","title":{"rendered":"The iPhone 13 mini is dead, leaving small phone lovers in a lurch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/iPhone-13-mini-800x477-1.jpe\" alt=\"A black smartphone with two cameras.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/iPhone-13-mini.jpeg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1583\" data-width=\"2657\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> The iPhone 13 mini. (credit: Samuel Axon)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Alongside the announcement of the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro, Apple quietly ended the <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2022\/09\/the-iphone-13-mini-is-the-last-of-apples-modern-mini-iphones-still-standing\/\">iPhone 13 mini<\/a>&#8216;s run today. That marks the end of life for arguably the best premium small phone designed for one-handed use.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a surprise, of course. It became clear shortly after the launch of the first iPhone with the &#8220;mini&#8221; label\u2014the iPhone 12 mini\u2014that it <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2021\/02\/the-iphone-12-mini-hasnt-sold-well-according-to-multiple-estimates\/\">wasn&#8217;t selling that well<\/a>. Market research has consistently shown that most users want bigger screens and batteries, which are incompatible with a smaller phone.<\/p>\n<p>Further, the mini split the small-phone market with the much cheaper iPhone SE\u2014even though the mini offered drastically improved features, like an OLED screen and better cameras.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1967913#p3\">Read 7 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1967913&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1967913\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The iPhone 13 mini is dead, leaving small phone lovers in a lurch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ The iPhone 13 mini. (credit: Samuel Axon) Alongside the announcement of the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro, Apple quietly ended the iPhone 13 mini&#8216;s run today. That marks the end of life for arguably the best premium &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1181339\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1181340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1181339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1181339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1181340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1181339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1181339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1181339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}