I've had an XL and a regular and I've found that I far prefer the more pocket-friendly size of the regular. I do miss the IPS panel and better speakers of my XL, though. But I got lucky, I was on a business trip in northern Idaho and my job site was across the street from a GameStop. Found my non-XL there, one of the Black Friday editions and it was on a hackable firmware (which mattered at the time ). It's really sad the regular ones didn't sell better here in the US, we might have seen more from that specific form factor.