The Hot Fashion Trend in 2025 May Be Skinny Phones

Our friends at Bloomberg Pursuits aren’t the only ones keeping their eyes on cultural trends. Nick Turner writes today about what’s coming in cellphones: skinnier models. Plus: A guide to what the tech industry’s most powerful people want from the Trump administration. If this email was forwarded to you, click here to sign up .

There was a time when cellphone innovation was measured by one simple benchmark: how small the device was. During the 1990s and early 2000s, phones were shrinking at a fast enough pace that people wondered how it would all end. The trend was parodied in 2001’s Zoolander, where model Derek uses a handset the size of a thumb. That same year, Will Ferrell played a stylish store manager on Saturday Night Live using a phone that looked like a dollhouse prop.