New Delhi, June 8 -- Compact flagships have been in and out of favour over the past few years, with the likes of the iPhone 'mini' series and the smaller Asus Zenfone models trying and failing to make smaller phones a mainstream success. Off late though, there's been a bit of a renaissance for pocket rockets-compact, reasonably sized flagships with the latest chips and very little to no compromises as compared to their large-screened brethren (cue cheers from folks with average sized hands and ladies who are tired of having to figure out the complex maths needed to fit large flagships in tight pockets).

Just in the past year alone, we've had the base iPhone 16/16e and the S25, along with the Google Pixel 9/9Pro, and let's not forget the ...