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Who cares really, I need my phone to be practical and reliable not funky designed and wacky, you simply cannot do much with a flat slab of all screen, back in the day when you had a small screen and a physical keyboard you could go crazy with designs and they were superb, they also cost a fraction of the cost of todays devices.
But now outside of a folding/flip/rolling display you cant physically do much apart from lights, funky pattern frame and colour schemes, almost all upgrades have to be internal, but again, phones have levelled off with what components you can actually fit in side.
Everything else that has been removed makes no odds, headphone jack in 2023? not needed, power adaptor or cable? not needed, expandable storage? nice and handy but portable storage is cheaper and faster and more secure.
I would argue that all modern phones be sold WITH a screen protector and a protective case, or at the very least offered free of charge, I am way more likely to need that then a charger.
Having said all that, lack of competition is also allowing companies to get lazy, and the worst of these culprits was apple, they like to say they set trends, fine, they removed the jack so other companies realised they could cash in, they removed the charger, other companies followed, they charged insane amounts for their iphones....you get the drift, they were also the first company to refresh the iphone 6 series what 4 times? so other companies followed, and boom, now we have very small iterative gains year on year.
I share your sentiment. It's difficult not to ponder which party bears more responsibility: the company that consistently produces incremental updates without significant technological advancements, or the consumers who continue to purchase their products, thereby supporting and perpetuating the company's approach.
Yes, they are boring... but consumers and designers alike are walled into the status quo because it just works as is. I miss the days of the old Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, HTC, and so many others who did innovative things with unique designs over the span of a good decade or so... but those days are past. Almost everybody essentially agrees now that the iPhone form factor is where it is at, and little can be done to change that, aside from foldables which cost a whole bunch more. It isn't all bad, but it isn't all that great, either.
Since Nokia and Htc aren't here yes all others are too boring. Nothing Phone is a little shine but just a little. Now the design is so so screen on the front and glass or "premium" plastic on the back. A little bit design intrigues with camera Island and that's all. But the design followed the function. Ok. That's the one and only solution these days. But what happens with the UI. There is a lot of space to improvement. Touch Flo and Touch Flo 3D were unique. Since then around 20 years ago nothing new or even a little bit different.
LG tried a new thing with the Wing, so it's not completely stale. Yeah, I know, LG is out but still, there are things to try out :) Motorola is working on a vertical rollable, as well. It might take some time but rollable design could break the "rectangular slab" status quo.
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Who cares really, I need my phone to be practical and reliable not funky designed and wacky, you simply cannot do much with a flat slab of all screen, back in the day when you had a small screen and a physical keyboard you could go crazy with designs and they were superb, they also cost a fraction of the cost of todays devices.
But now outside of a folding/flip/rolling display you cant physically do much apart from lights, funky pattern frame and colour schemes, almost all upgrades have to be internal, but again, phones have levelled off with what components you can actually fit in side.
Everything else that has been removed makes no odds, headphone jack in 2023? not needed, power adaptor or cable? not needed, expandable storage? nice and handy but portable storage is cheaper and faster and more secure.
I would argue that all modern phones be sold WITH a screen protector and a protective case, or at the very least offered free of charge, I am way more likely to need that then a charger.
Having said all that, lack of competition is also allowing companies to get lazy, and the worst of these culprits was apple, they like to say they set trends, fine, they removed the jack so other companies realised they could cash in, they removed the charger, other companies followed, they charged insane amounts for their iphones....you get the drift, they were also the first company to refresh the iphone 6 series what 4 times? so other companies followed, and boom, now we have very small iterative gains year on year.
I share your sentiment. It's difficult not to ponder which party bears more responsibility: the company that consistently produces incremental updates without significant technological advancements, or the consumers who continue to purchase their products, thereby supporting and perpetuating the company's approach.
Yes, they are boring... but consumers and designers alike are walled into the status quo because it just works as is. I miss the days of the old Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, HTC, and so many others who did innovative things with unique designs over the span of a good decade or so... but those days are past. Almost everybody essentially agrees now that the iPhone form factor is where it is at, and little can be done to change that, aside from foldables which cost a whole bunch more. It isn't all bad, but it isn't all that great, either.
Since Nokia and Htc aren't here yes all others are too boring. Nothing Phone is a little shine but just a little. Now the design is so so screen on the front and glass or "premium" plastic on the back. A little bit design intrigues with camera Island and that's all. But the design followed the function. Ok. That's the one and only solution these days. But what happens with the UI. There is a lot of space to improvement. Touch Flo and Touch Flo 3D were unique. Since then around 20 years ago nothing new or even a little bit different.
LG tried a new thing with the Wing, so it's not completely stale. Yeah, I know, LG is out but still, there are things to try out :) Motorola is working on a vertical rollable, as well. It might take some time but rollable design could break the "rectangular slab" status quo.