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phones that flip phones that slide phones that have a full keyboard on the

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inside it feels like it wasn't long ago that we had phones in all shapes and

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sizes but with the exception of recent foldable phones and other things that

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mostly feel like gimmicks these days they're all flat candy bar shape but why

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well back in the day when they were all shapes and sizes our phones didn't

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really do as much it was mostly calls texts and impressing your friends with

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your cool new ringtone so for these use cases it was a

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no-brainer what to put on a phone a small screen to handle the user

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interface and a physical keypad since you'd be constantly punching in numbers

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of course phones like the blackberry had full-on qwerty keyboards to make texting

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and emailing easier but the screen itself was still rather limited in

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functionality the point here is that a small screen and lots of actual buttons

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made sense on every phone and as long as you had these two things there wasn't

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necessarily a standard way to arrange them hence the very large variety of

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phone layouts that we saw i had a kibo then of course the iphone came along in

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2007 and helped set a trend it wasn't the first smartphone but it put the idea

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in the mind of the public that the phone should actually be a hyper flexible

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device that shouldn't be limited by things like hinges and sliders or

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buttons instead it opted for a design that was mostly a touch screen so it

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could adapt to whichever app the user was running and a large screen makes it

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harder to incorporate tons of physical bells and whistles as you need one big

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slab that can hold the entire display and if you have a do-it-all device you

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also need a lot more battery life than you did in the days where the most power

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draining activity you could do is to have a long phone conversation this

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necessitates a larger physical battery which limits how the phone can be shaped

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if you take a look inside just about any modern smartphone you'll see a

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standardized rectangular lithium ion or lithium polymer battery that takes up a

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significant amount of space inside on top of that making phones physically

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complicated makes them more likely to fail this could be seen in everything

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from slide out keyboards to more modern foldable phones and as important as

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smartphones have become for daily life this is a big deal with most phone

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makers advertising toughness and durability with ever stronger screen

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glasses and impressive water resistance ratings phones get sold based on

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hardiness speed and camera quality none

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of which require a phone maker to push some crazy new form factor i mean it's a

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lot easier to just point the back of your phone at something to take a picture than to have

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an extra part like a pop-up lens

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at most manufacturers might try and make a new device thin and elegant so there's

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a high demand for the premium feeling phones or they make minor tweaks such as

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a screen that wraps slightly around the edge of the chassis and with all the

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high-end processors and camera lenses inside modern phones it's very important

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to make sure the phone is tough enough to protect the sensitive innards a goal

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that's most easily achieved by simple designs instead of weak hinges and

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physical buttons that could serve as ingress points for water and debris and

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of course even the most innovative manufacturers copy each other in the

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constant struggle to appear trendy and bleeding edge it's difficult for a

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company to put on a new form factor that customers simply don't associate with

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high-end basically if it doesn't really look like an iphone then

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it's kind of this wacky other thing though of course someone has to be the

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trendsetter so maybe one day instead of just settling for rectangular devices

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