[drawkbox]

Probably. The old phones before flip, home phones/office phones you could hang up all intensely. The flip phones replaced that with hanging up with the massive flip, but got annoying when everyone is using smartphones. Now when they hang up they can't tap the phone harder to hang up. A tension moment has been taken.

[rcthompson]

On the other hand, we, as the owners of similar devices, get to empathize with the characters' silent frustration at not having anything to slam down.