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Ask them their "vision" and they'll probably tell you a larger screen, or a thinner body. Some kind of optimization of what's there, and not something new and wacky.
Meanwhile, there’s a ton of aesthetic design in cases. The essay doesn’t make that point building on the quote above, but that seems to be the simplest answer.
Probably either the OnePlus One or the PinePhone (if that even counts), though getting a phone with a 120Hz screen (OnePlus 8T) was somewhat cool as well. My PC monitors are still 60Hz so it was kind of novel to me.
There was also the Gemini PDA, but that thing was a huge mess and has made me skeptical of any other UMPC ventures or ARM devices with chips I'm not familiar with.
At this point you could probably get people excited just bringing back removable batteries, SD card slots, and headphone jacks.
Last year when I bought a Galaxy Fold4. I would say that is the opposite of boring, it's freaking cool!
>Why today’s phones are so boooooring? Because the HW part of the UX has been commoditized to a giant screen where the big difference in style and UX is made by the SW and UI. In fairness LG has tried experimenting with different HW UX over the years to distinguish themselves[1], and they went bust doing it because consumer weren't into that and voted with their wallets to those making boring phones like everyone els…
My Pixel 7 Pro is great and all, but it doesn't do anything _interesting_
The author explains that the backs of phones are the primary distinguishing factor with inconsequential differences in screen resolution and refresh rates.
And then...favorably points out how the backs of headphones are the primary distinguishing factor with inconsequential differences in driver response.
Am I missing something?
If manufacturers come out with phones that stray too far from the rectangular touchscreen paradigm, the majority of app developers aren't going to customise their app for the phone, unless it's really succesful.
I used to make apps for Smart TVs, when Samsung release their "Sero" rotating TV, supporting portrait orientation AND the orientation changing whilst in the app was too much work, so we just ran it in a letterbox mode.