New Phone for Small Hands

Hey all,

Recently updated my phone and looking to sort my partner out with an upgrade however pretty much all of the phones we've looked at have been too big for her hands. She currently has the HTC One Mini from 2013 but it has seen better days but is a manageable size, the only phone we've found so far that is decent sized and relatively powerful is the Sony Xperia XA however it is a bloatware nightmare.

Was hoping there may be some suggestions for decently powerful, small-ish not astronomically expensive smartphones?

iPhone 6SE? Depends on your budget?

The SE is a bit out of price range, she's been looking at the 5S but trying to find a competitor running Android so she can avoid iTunes.

There is no phone called the iPhone 6SE. When will people learn

Gigabit said:

There is no phone called the iPhone 6SE. When will people learn

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Ha, my bad iPhone SE!!

Xperia Z5 Compact?

Xperia X Compact

So looking like it's going to essentially be picking between a phone preloaded with bloat or having to use iTunes. Thanks for the suggestions all.

Can't say I've ever found my Sony phones to be too heavy on the bloatware. Yeah, as with most, there's a lot of default icons on the desktop, but it only takes a minute to clear that up. They're otherwise not especially intrusive.

Sony is really light on the crap as cheesyboy says and the bits they offer don't activate until asked etc... try at a store if you're worried but they are very minimalist affairs.

Yes have to say I find Sony one of the better ones when it comes to preloaded crap, very light and not intrusive at all.

Hmm, was reading some reviews on the Xperia XA mentioned in the original post. It mentioned that the Xperia comes with 16GB of storage however once all the apps are updated you're looking at more like 6GB?

I've had a Z5c for the last year or so and have been very impressed with it, good solid phone with very little bloat, and the vast majority you can uninstall (plus 32gb standard memory & upto 256gb sd)

There is the Huawei Nova, but it's a new model and might be hard to get for a while.

Specs: 5" Full HD screen, metal body, big battery (3020mAh), 3GB's of ram, 32gb storage, micro SD, finger scanner, Snapdragon 625, 8mp and 12mp cameras.

YT reviews:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rghL_tudKNo
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_nN_kzs8_Nc

edit.I guess this might be it be out of your price range. Did you know that Giffgaff are selling the iphone SE for £319 atm? only 16gb though...