Debate: What's the best phone feature you want back?

Replaceable battery would be nice if they could find a way to retain the water/dust proof capability. Not a show stopper but would be nice.

I effectively want a smaller Blackberry Priv for hardware. Front facing speaker, headphone jack, micro-SD, the physical speaker that doubles as a touch pad, an no wasted screen real-estate. Just add some aluminum or steel side rails and maybe a higher quality back material like leather and it would be perfect. If I can only choose one feature to return though, I would still choose headphone jack every day of the week.

Another misinformed user who thinks Apple created blue skies. I don’t know who originally created the physical mute button but I can tell you that every single Palm phone I ever used, from the Treo 650 to the Pre 3, had one up top.

They don't use it because they have already passed that stage, about 15 years ago while Symbian was still nice. We have the ability to schedule mute/un-mute... I never ever ever ever touch the sound-scheme of my phone because its all done automatically, and that's on an old Huawei P30 Pro.

Physical keyboards are/were nice and I enjoyed them all but the one feature I would really like to see back is the 16:9 aspect ratio. Most readers here couldn’t wrap their fingers around a “tiny” 5.7” Galaxy Note 5 or much less a Lumia 1520 with that miniscule 6” display. For reference, the iPhone mini has a 5.4” display that many say is useless and unreadable. The Note 2 had a 5.5” display and was too large at the time.

I can't schedule my weekly routine, there are meetings that pop up and situations that require a quick mute, it's much easier with a physical switch... and this is coming from a long-time Android user.

I wouldn't describe it that way, with all due respect. I've been an avid Android user for more than 15 years, and never saw a physical mute switch, until OnePlus added one. Now, I'm not familiar with Palm devices, but the question still stands. Why not have it on all phones, Android or not? It's super useful.

I have a feeling we will be waiting for a loooonnggg time.

I used to think physical keyboards needed to come back.. but the problem is I've started swiping to text just about everything that's longer than 3 letters. also, with the expansion of emojis, gifs, and other texting tricks, it would be impossible to have a physical keyboard and still have those features be easily accessible. Unless the keyboard was dynamic like the Samsung Alias 2.

If you could capture swipes on that, I could see it working.

But that's still not the feature I would bring back. I'd still probably bring back the headphone jack. I lose my wireless buds and dongles way too much.

I miss being able to have the same widget on your lock screen that you have on your home screen. It just looked better that way versus a basic widget for lock screens.