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by DerfNet 3089 days ago
No headphone jack, no removable battery, no expandable storage, has an always-listening "feature" under the guise of music detection. And this is "the year's best smartphone".

When did smartphones start regressing?

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> When did smartphones start regressing?

When they got rid of keyboards.

Then your other mentioned features, the SD cards and batteries left quickly after, but the keyboard was the first to go. Now I struggle with typing in frustration, whereas I used to be able to type full paragraphs without even looking at the phone, including backspaces, on my old WinMo, BlackBerry, and early Android phones.

Around 2014-2015 it seems.

Sometime after "waterproofing" (read - planned obsolescence without removable batteries) became a major selling feature.