[adityab]

Agreed. They don't make niche devices anymore.

The last great phones for me where the N950 and N900.

Everyone is building what they think appeals to the "average consumer". With every yearly product iteration, features regress more towards the mean. They just build bricks that look the same now, competing with each other on how many fractions of a millimeter can be shaved off. This is because phones are no longer seen as productivity devices, they're a status symbol like cars and jewelry. A keyboard increases thickness, which would be unthinkable for them.

I actually invested in a Jolla phone two years ago, but the promised hardware keyboard never quite panned out.