For people worried about the keyboard typing, I've been very curious about the Titan Pocket as an alternative option. Square screen (fun!), "real" keybaord... the biggest problem seeming to be that the keyboard is intentionally a bit weird in the layout to avoid dealing with Blackberry ...design patents I think https://www.unihertz.com/products/titan-pocket
As a former iPhone 12 mini user (whose spouse is on their second one because the other phones are getting too big)... I don't need the screen to be tiny but I legit wonder what people with smaller hands/pockets/whatever are going to do.
I wrote an input service to improve the keyboard of the Titan Pocket[1], it's quite good for writing things. I've since sold it and tried a Jelly Star, which I returned.
The Titan Pocket is a nice phone, a bit too big and too heavy for me, but like most of the Unihertz offering the major pain point is that the stock firmware is old and not to be trusted, and the community-driven LineageOS alternatives are flimsy and incomplete. This is also due to Unihertz and Mediatek not doing their part and releasing the relevant source code or documentation for specific drivers/services. There is a small community with a few dedicated members but it's a bit of an uphill battle.
As a former iPhone 12 mini user (whose spouse is on their second one because the other phones are getting too big)... I don't need the screen to be tiny but I legit wonder what people with smaller hands/pockets/whatever are going to do.