Over the past few years, smartphones have been growing and growing, presumably driven by customer demand for bigger and bigger screens. When the first Galaxy Note launched, it was mocked for having a “needlessly big”, 5.3-inch screen. But it happened to spark a revolution and start a trend of bigger and bigger smartphones. Here we are, in 2019, and a 5.5-inch screen is just your regular, run-of-the-mill phone.

However, as they grew in size, we still had a compact phone offering here and there. Sony always had a Compact series of its main flagship line, offering a smaller phone with the same ...