I myself own a Nexus 4. 4.7" at this size is about the most that i'd find practical, and the screen real estate is great.

But this doesn't suit everyone, and i found it increasingly frustrating this weekend trying to find phones to recommend to people that weren't huge and their spec wasn't rubbish, or the phone (and therefore software) wasnt old. And i'm not talking people wanting high spec for dirt cheap. I'm talking decent specs in a smaller phone for a reasonable price.

I found a few 4.3" phones which would fit the bill, just, but a lot of these are even a tad too large when you look at their actual physical dimension - only a couple of mm thinner than a 4.7" device in some cases. On top of that, not all are available in NZ.

All the smaller phones are low end rubbish, it seems very difficult to find a 4" device with a decent resolution, as well as decent spec in other areas. NZ has a lot of old models in its market, but i'm seeing even newer devices with the old MSM7227 single cores in them. It's terrible.

I feel like HTC almost got it right with the One range last year, a range of decent devices, The V, S and X - but unfortunately the V is let down by its spec and gets very laggy after any reasonable amount of use - mainly due to the lesser RAM and internal memory quickly filling up (leaving little space for the dalvik cache, an annoying flaw of android)

I also feel like devices like samsung galaxy ace 2 are a step in the right direction - if only samsung's software was better (and they kept it updated more) and they didn't churn out an endless supply of rubbish models in between.

Anyone else feel like there is an unfufilled market segment here or this just me? A company needs to create a range of quality android devices, at 3-4 sizes, with a decent spec but otherwise similar feature set.

Pretty much what HTC and Nokia are doing with windows phone.

Thoughts?