Not sure what happened, but we're suddenly inundated with compact phones for the first time in years.

Yes, we should take all of these with a grain of salt. Unihertz famously does not support their phones. Click has never made a phone before, though they seem to know what they're doing. And iKKO... well, I'll believe it when I see it.

But the fact that multiple companies are now racing to build smaller phones that AREN'T foldables is SO encouraging. Does it need a keyboard? Who knows! But the market should offer us a variety of form factors instead of just increasingly-larger phablets. It's nice to see things go our way for a change.