Smartphone: how big is it?
Smartphone is about 15 cm. In everyday terms, that is ≈ 21.4 grains of rice.
- Size
- 15 cm
- In metres
- 1.50 × 10⁻¹ m
- Everyday comparison
- ≈ 21.4 grains of rice
- Chapter
- Small Wonders
Did you know?
A modern phone is millions of times more powerful than the computer that guided Apollo 11 to the Moon.
How it compares
- About 1.7× bigger than Cutting chai glass (9 cm).
- About 1.5× smaller than Football (22 cm).
Other things of a similar size
- Bee hummingbird 5.5 cm
- Cricket ball 7.2 cm
- Cutting chai glass 9 cm
- Football 22 cm
- Masala dosa 40 cm
- House cat 46 cm
Sizes are rounded, typical values drawn from standard reference sources, including NIST/CODATA physical constants and NASA's planetary fact sheets. Real objects vary; see About for how sizes are chosen.