And touchscreen keyboards (and their haptics) got significantly better, too.
Most of those cool designs were attempts at either maximizing the screen, giving a qwerty keyboard, or both. There were a few odd ones like the ones with the rotary dials, the n-gage, etc. But now we’ve got a form-factor that gives a real good keyboard and a real large screen.
I would kill for a phone that still had a track ball. Loved it on my old HTC Hero with it’s dinky 3.5in display back in the day. I bet it would be awesome to have on a 6.7” screen.
I miss how innovative phones in the 00s used to be. They were seriously trying out every style and form factor possible, now they’re all a slab.
There’s a reason why none of those crazy styles stuck around.
They all sucked pretty hard or were too niche to become popular enough for economy of scale to bring the price down.
And touchscreen keyboards (and their haptics) got significantly better, too.
Most of those cool designs were attempts at either maximizing the screen, giving a qwerty keyboard, or both. There were a few odd ones like the ones with the rotary dials, the n-gage, etc. But now we’ve got a form-factor that gives a real good keyboard and a real large screen.
I would kill for a phone that still had a track ball. Loved it on my old HTC Hero with it’s dinky 3.5in display back in the day. I bet it would be awesome to have on a 6.7” screen.