In his latest review of the Asus Zenphone 9, Marques (who was VERY excited about this Android phone for all the "He's an Apple fanboy" critics) called the Zenphone the compact king and likened it to a Pixel 5 Pro. It got me thinking of what could've been.

Many Reddit users have wanted a Pixel 5 size with flagship guts, and it appears that the Zenphone is closest to that, even though the camera is weaker.

The architecture of the Tensor chip - 2 high performance cores instead of the traditional 1 - worries me in regards to heating and seems to be one of the reasons the phones are bigger.

I'm just imagining a parallel universe where the Pixel 7 is a little thicker than the 5 with the SDGen1 , 120Hz display, headphone jack, side or rear mounted fingerprint reader. It would be an instant buy for me.