Nice compilation! Anomaly: 3.5mm never failed, but removed nonetheless. It's however good to see some newer devices revive it for a very specific purpose: Music.
Now for them to add good DAC. LG was easily king for having excellent DACs in their phones. The G7 had a quad DAC set up, can't remember the specs but I remember it being well praised. Edit: Fixed DACs instead of DSPs lol
@@killerinfo Yes, LG was best of the bunch with 3.5mm jack. Sony to has retained the jack, but the phone themselves are difficult to source and there's no official support in many countries. To spice things up, Moondrop is here.
I do wonder whether we'll see a manufacturer start bringing out phones with 3.5mm jacks and better internal DACs as a USP, maybe along with some IEMs or even a bluetooth DAC. That kind of hardware has become so cheap these days, and it's a really noticeable improvement over regular bluetooth earbuds.
Just having a 3.5mm jack is not enough, though. When I moved from my HTC 10 with a 10bit dedicated DAC to the Oneplus 6 with the shitty Qualcomm SoC DAC, I stopped listening to music on my phone entirely within a week. I just couldn't stand the downgrade.
I miss the ir blaster to control my tv and and other media devices with my s5 I never bothered looking for my tv remote I sat down and used my phone life was simple then.
Sorry this might be a rant, and not to be too contrarian, but LG Wing's demise is not a flaw of the T-shape design, rather the flaw with the smartphone industry mindset. The ability to hold a phone so that Content is available in LANDSCAPE while simultaneously having an infinitely customizable INPUT SECTION (bottom squarish screen) meant you could do on this phone you couldn't do on any other phone. Were there an enthusiastic push on software side to maximize the utility of its unique form factor, that phone could've single-handedly saved LG's phone division, at the very least, for a few more years. But when you had giant social media apps which were reluctant on using Camera API on Android side for years until the controversy got traction, you already know the app developers won't give 2 flying fracks about a single phone, regardless of how revolutionary it could've been. Look at S-Pen versus Apple Pencil. Despite being years ahead, the S-Pen community is still crawling, while Apple Pencil already have become gold standard for digital artists in the industry.
And if I recall correctly, we were using that phone, when we switched to iPhones. I was the C crew supervisor and our company phones were Blackberry at first. And that model was the last one our company issued, before switching to the iPhone. The iPhone was definitely quicker and smoother, but I missed that Blackberry... 😂 But switching to the iPhone got me started on swipe to text, which I use to this day. And switching from that Blackberry is what got me started in my TH-cam channel so long ago. Sorry for the long comment.
@3d touch measures the pressure of the touch and acts accordingly, haptic touch just vibrates depending on how long you press something, its also why you feel a lil vibration on certain apps when you press a button
Soon enough. The EU thingy has mandated smartphones manufacturers to make removable battery a thing again by.. i dont remember the the date. It'll be removable & water resistant. Coldfusion (channel TH-cam) has made a video about it. Its also why iphone finally uses a usb-c for standardization. Sorry for my bad english
The lsingle largest factor why they do not… NSA would not be happy. The only single way to entirely disconnect any smartphone is to remove the battery. No joke - the NSA plays a type of game with phone manufacturers. They will offer any phone manufacturer that sells devices in america; either a type of money payment or also a type of greatly reduced tax rate. If those two items don’t work, they’ll find a way to get the device effectively excluded from american sales. Btw, the NSA actually has Apple iPhone 16 devices for a majority of their employees. They have reduced functionality for apps and functions (and even electronically block scan and photo functions on property). But they also have hardware features, such as a dedicated off feature that is a type of battery disconnect.
It's sad that nowadays everything is the same every year, sure some phones had gimmicky features but it was always fun to see them and maybe some people did actually use those features.
Iris scanning on Samsung phones was released way before it was ready for the market, it was more or less a half-baked implementation when it was released. It would've worked better now since front facing and IR cameras have high enough resolution to work at appropriate viewing distance from users.
@@Unknown-64209 as i mentioned in my other comment, it is one of the reasons I still stick to my mi9t pro. 5 years on the clock, still a very decent device.
Same! Also, being a pop-up does not downgrade the image quality, so it's a perfectly good solution. Ever since I have the S23, I usually flip the phone around anyways to take a selfie with the ultrawide (ALWAYS in frame) or the main cam, since the main camera is always a MUCH better sensor than any front-facing cam. For this reason, I also miss the small mirror next to the camera, like the old "pre-smart" phones had. It would make a separate selfie camera completely unnecessary, since you could compose a selfie with the help of the mirror and in exchange you'd have a better quality photo than with a regular selfie camera.
Pop up cameras were such an amazing thing, I am currently writing from my Xiaomi Mi9t Pro. It's still a good phone and had only a battery replacement due to its age. The full display with no camera hole was one of the main reasons I bought it back in 2019, also it was considerably cheaper compared to other phones with the same Snapdragon 855, mine was only 380 euros at the time of purchase for the 6/128 version
I remembered one other interesting tech phone, the projectors, while the Moto Z series had a external projector, for example: -Galaxy Beam -Blackview Max 1 Those had internal projectors, and they were amazing phones, sad that it was hard to do them. And overshadowed by screen mirroning, samsung DeX etc...
06:11 - There's been a couple of DECENT slide out keyboard phones I've owned, 1 - (Landscape) Nokia E7 and, 2 - (Portrate) Blackberry Torch 9810, I loved using both, typing was quick, accurate and efficient and apart from the newish Planet Computers 'Astro Slide/Astro Slide 5G' (a Nokia E7 looking thing) I WISH more manufacturers WOULD make more physical QWERTY keyboard phones, after all, ONE of the TOP THREE uses of phones nowadays IS STILL texting/instant messaging/Email ! 😏 😎🇬🇧
The problem with microSD cards is software-based as well as hardware now, a lot of apps just aren't designed to read SD cards and they tend to be pretty slow in comparison. What we *really* need is phones that can take those tiny postage-stamp SSDs, they're great.
The Blackberry Priv's keyboard is still my favorite hardware feature to have ever used. Having the whole screen available when typing was great, and the keyboard was excellently designed and great to type on. Working as a trackpad for scrolling and a quick launcher were nice features too, but as you mentioned in the video the chip was suboptimal and prone to overheating, and I still don't understand why the camera was looking through plastic. I waited for so long hoping they would make a Priv 2 with TCL, but it never happened.
Modular smartphone is a crazy cool concept if only they experimented more and came up with a practical solution the whole industry would have looked different
Had an LG Wing. Loved it till I got fed up repairing it. Before that, a ZTE Axon M. A two screen phone before two screen phones were cool. And before before that, a Microsoft Lumia 950 XL. A phone that had iris scanning before Samsung did.
What about the phones with extra screens on the back, like the YotaPhone, Nubia Z20 and Meizu Pro 7? It's such an amazing concept to have a viewfinder to take selfies with the main camera.
Blackberry Privs are hands down the most Handsome phone ever created. Curved screen, sliding keyboard, carbon fiber back, and the proportion is just perfect.
I’m personally most intrigued by the modular accessories and Blackberry’s picture password. I remember seeing a recent Xiaomi flagship (14 ultra?) having an optional case that adds extra battery and camera controls, which I find really cool
The LG Wing was awesome, the same is true for LG's dual screen cases for the G8 and V60 and this I wish would make a comeback. Getting a 2nd screen as an add-on in a case was always a cool idea.
I used to use a Windows phone, the 1020, with a 41 MP camera sensor. It came with a camera grip/extended battery. The camera grip made one end of the phone extra chunky so it could be held comfortably and confidently in the right hand. It had a dedicated shutter button and also had a small capacity extended battery built in.
I'll never forget that blackberry with the sliding keyboard. My boss had one and I was close to getting one too until they announced they were stopping support for it a couple of months after the launch. I've never been so "sad" for a piece of tech, I really think they're was something they're. It was not even that thick, it just lacked the software support. Someone really needs to come and disrupt the smartphone market and make them like PC, or at least Google should make the manufacturers open source their drivers after support has ended so they can be incorporated into AOSP.
I think modules could make a comeback: 1. phone design settled on a specific shape - no one is experimenting with crazy curves etc... 2. we don't rotate our phones so frequently due to massive prices and good enough specs 3. because of the 2, it would be reasonable to keep the mainboard the same for a few years and just improve cameras and extend hardware functionality. 6:56 I think there was also a phone where the was a simple spring-loaded mechanism? no need for fancy motor (another likely point of failure), just push-push solution with the same end result.
One of my favorite designs has to be the physical QWERTY keyboard that Blackberry phones had. Having a physical keyboard on an Android device is very interesting. I would like to see it come back.
9:35. NOTHING is impossible to hack and claiming that something is “unhackable” or “zero vulnerabilities” likely just drives a hacker to get in quicker.
@@sarcasticmcspastic The Xbox one/ series consoles were just hacked recently. Look online you can probably find more information abt it. It was patched pretty quick tho.
Another now-dead weird form factor: the Asus PadFone, which docked your phone into a tablet. And as you mentioned with the Moto X modules, phones with projectors built in were attempted in the early days too.
I have the LG Velvet and that one also came with a dual screen case. It is amazing and way better than foldables imo if you consider the price and durability(and longevity since the phone is usable separately incase the base fails). Amazing for multitasking and emulation, I just wish we get this again in the future.
Motorola with moto mods was a really cool take on adding modularity and capabilities to phones, the LG wing was sci-fi awesome, but then not all fantastic ideas catch on.
The Samsung with the strange charger... I believe the Panasonic Toughbook FZ-N1 phones (with barcode reader) had that charger cable/port, too (on the side).
Hugh. I wonder if your itest can support android head unit for the car. I have tried on the android head unit. However, for a weird reason, information immediately shows for a split second, and it disappear.
I'm still rocking my LG Wing, I don't care about any of the downsides all that much anymore, they used to be dealbreakers but I came to embrace the fact they aren't (like the 60hz screens, the mediocre battery life, the mid range processor) which are actual downsides, but not enough to turn down the cool af phone itself
I'm fine with none of these features returning. What I want back is the headphone jack, screen with no cutouts (even if it means bezels come back), micro SD card, and maybe removable batteries.
9:20 I remember seeing a Samsung Galaxy A80, which had a rotating camera module, with good specs for its time, I wish Samsung continued to make experiments with such features to their phones rather than releasing incremental-updates phones each year
Yes! Same with Asus Zenfone 7 Pro and the Zenfone 8 Flip. You could take a selfie with the main camera, which is always the best camera on a phone. Also, fun fact for you: Samsung already had a rotating camera in 2003 with the X600.
For the heartrate monitoring, its present on every xiaomi device with an underscreen optical fingerprint sensor. However while devices with chinese firmware can access it from the xiaomi health app, for global rom its hidden in a random settings menu so most users won't even notice that its a feature.
I wish you would do a video about using older flagship phones and the risk of using phones that no longer receives security patches. How old is too old. Is there security aps that can be used in place of updates?
I know xiaomi uses the underscreen fingerprint sensor for heart-rate sensing, and you can also use different fingers to open different "spaces", albeit less smoothly than the anomphone, since it has to load a totally different environment
2:43 That is actually incorrect, as the LG Velvet also had a dual screen option, but are very rare as the LG Velvet was a midrange phone that didn't sell well.
LG G5 was almost like a wake-up call for LG because that phone was hilariously bad despite on paper, a unique idea. I think personally G6 was a good redemption for them.
Hugh Jefferies I have a Huawei mate 9 they need a new display cause I dropped it and broke it and he needs a new display. How much do you think it would cost to fix that?
AFAIK, all Android phone with under display finger print sensor should be able to do heart rate sensor. I know my Xiaomi Pocophone X6 can, Xiaomi just buried the feature under the setting, additional settings
My Xiaomi Mi 9T had such a motorized camera and I loved it since I rarely use the selfie camera and had a full screen. To be honest, I don't need a selfie camera at all. Only usable feature for this is face unlock, which I don't even have on my Pixel 6 so I wouldn't miss it.
I'm sorry, but I'd really like the LG wing, since then I can watch a video at full horizontal screen as well as reading comments, using another app, etc. I'd love to have that.
i have a tiny little hope that camera array/island on back plates will still quickly become an obsolete design. it's a literal... size comparison contest and at the moment it seems it aims at talking to less technical people under that classic false pretense "bigger means better".
The phones with the biggest camera modules do objectively have the best cameras though, oppo find x7, Xiaomi 14u, pixel 9 pro XL, iPhone 16 pro max etc. bigger sensors ARE objectively better.
You forgot the Note's 7 explosive battery feature! Such an innovative idea lol
And the iPhone 6 being the first to explore the foldable form factor
Was a very good burner phone...
A phone AND a grenade?? Perfect James bond gadget
Gotta love that Grand Theft Auto 5 mod that turns grenades into Note 7s.
@@Samsonfs😂😂
I still love my LG Wing
Also a little note at 8:40
The Note 3 which came out a few months before the S5, had that micro USB 3.0 feature.
i remember these phone they were so shocked when they realise normal micro usb works as well
aye, i have one too. Kinda wish LG's phone division stayed on top of that, maybe it would still be getting updates.
Yeah ... I have on that phone 😂😂
Yep, man I loved my Note 3, good ol' memories.
Your Wing didn't break? That hinge looks so jank and fragile.
Nice compilation!
Anomaly: 3.5mm never failed, but removed nonetheless. It's however good to see some newer devices revive it for a very specific purpose: Music.
Now for them to add good DAC. LG was easily king for having excellent DACs in their phones. The G7 had a quad DAC set up, can't remember the specs but I remember it being well praised.
Edit: Fixed DACs instead of DSPs lol
Removed cause Apple, and everyone else HAD to follow
@@killerinfo Yes, LG was best of the bunch with 3.5mm jack. Sony to has retained the jack, but the phone themselves are difficult to source and there's no official support in many countries. To spice things up, Moondrop is here.
I do wonder whether we'll see a manufacturer start bringing out phones with 3.5mm jacks and better internal DACs as a USP, maybe along with some IEMs or even a bluetooth DAC. That kind of hardware has become so cheap these days, and it's a really noticeable improvement over regular bluetooth earbuds.
Just having a 3.5mm jack is not enough, though. When I moved from my HTC 10 with a 10bit dedicated DAC to the Oneplus 6 with the shitty Qualcomm SoC DAC, I stopped listening to music on my phone entirely within a week. I just couldn't stand the downgrade.
9:07 the Galaxy Note 3 also has that
Also the galaxy round
I miss the ir blaster to control my tv and and other media devices with my s5 I never bothered looking for my tv remote I sat down and used my phone life was simple then.
OnePlus still gottem
You can still get the IR blaster on many BBK. & Xiaomi phones
My Xiaomi 14 has it despite not being visible
Love it on my Poco F3.
@@bakededdedit's inside the camera module of the Xiaomi 14 which is a good change honestly.
Sorry this might be a rant, and not to be too contrarian, but LG Wing's demise is not a flaw of the T-shape design, rather the flaw with the smartphone industry mindset. The ability to hold a phone so that Content is available in LANDSCAPE while simultaneously having an infinitely customizable INPUT SECTION (bottom squarish screen) meant you could do on this phone you couldn't do on any other phone. Were there an enthusiastic push on software side to maximize the utility of its unique form factor, that phone could've single-handedly saved LG's phone division, at the very least, for a few more years. But when you had giant social media apps which were reluctant on using Camera API on Android side for years until the controversy got traction, you already know the app developers won't give 2 flying fracks about a single phone, regardless of how revolutionary it could've been. Look at S-Pen versus Apple Pencil. Despite being years ahead, the S-Pen community is still crawling, while Apple Pencil already have become gold standard for digital artists in the industry.
Well said honestly. I have nothing to add, just well said.
@@NamanArusia agree with you and want to add that the majority of developers don't even think about using a feature if it's not in an iphone
Yeah LG Wing was released long after LG executives knew they were shutting down. The idea that the LG wind killed LG is silly
I absolutely loved the Blackberry Slider. I really wish they would have had better software and cameras for it. I would still use that phone today.
And if I recall correctly, we were using that phone, when we switched to iPhones. I was the C crew supervisor and our company phones were Blackberry at first. And that model was the last one our company issued, before switching to the iPhone. The iPhone was definitely quicker and smoother, but I missed that Blackberry... 😂 But switching to the iPhone got me started on swipe to text, which I use to this day. And switching from that Blackberry is what got me started in my TH-cam channel so long ago. Sorry for the long comment.
What about custom os?
@THECAR99
Thats a good idea, if someone actually makes a custom ROM for it. I never really looked into that..
3D Touch is missing from this list. Apple removed it in favor of Haptic Touch
That is such an insignificant feature compared to all of these lol
What's the difference between these 2? Please explain 🙏🏻
yeah. worst decision made by apple ever
One of the Biggest downgrade in the smartphone industry after the removal of headphone jack and SD cards
@3d touch measures the pressure of the touch and acts accordingly, haptic touch just vibrates depending on how long you press something, its also why you feel a lil vibration on certain apps when you press a button
I wish they would bring back the removable battery
Keep buying new phones when they break
@Splarkszter
What
Soon enough. The EU thingy has mandated smartphones manufacturers to make removable battery a thing again by.. i dont remember the the date. It'll be removable & water resistant. Coldfusion (channel TH-cam) has made a video about it. Its also why iphone finally uses a usb-c for standardization. Sorry for my bad english
The lsingle largest factor why they do not…
NSA would not be happy. The only single way to entirely disconnect any smartphone is to remove the battery. No joke - the NSA plays a type of game with phone manufacturers. They will offer any phone manufacturer that sells devices in america; either a type of money payment or also a type of greatly reduced tax rate. If those two items don’t work, they’ll find a way to get the device effectively excluded from american sales.
Btw, the NSA actually has Apple iPhone 16 devices for a majority of their employees. They have reduced functionality for apps and functions (and even electronically block scan and photo functions on property). But they also have hardware features, such as a dedicated off feature that is a type of battery disconnect.
@@unmeaninglessly143the eu made them use a unreliable port that is subject to physical damage requiring replacement faster than lightning ports
For lockscreen, LG's knock code was the best specialty when fingerprint sensor was not a thing in smartphones yet.
It's sad that nowadays everything is the same every year, sure some phones had gimmicky features but it was always fun to see them and maybe some people did actually use those features.
Iris scanning on Samsung phones was released way before it was ready for the market, it was more or less a half-baked implementation when it was released.
It would've worked better now since front facing and IR cameras have high enough resolution to work at appropriate viewing distance from users.
Sasmung stole the feature from Microsoft, whcih released it on lumia 950/XL. As well as continuum (which they called “dex”)
I was so excited when I saw the LG wing. Exactly what I needed, fullscreen films and messenger at the same time.
The Note3 series of phones from Samsung used USB 3 connectors as well. Just FYI.
8:46 note 3 also had microusb 3
I did not know why the pop-up camera did not take off but the pop- up camera was so different
my best guess would be dust ingression
@@playerzkingmuch more simple - the cost. Only then everything else. Plus, it is much harder to make it waterproof.
Also it gave a sense of privacy.
@@djnjoy Yup. Cost 100%. An extra motor with precise engineering and all the extra parts vs a notch.
@@Unknown-64209 as i mentioned in my other comment, it is one of the reasons I still stick to my mi9t pro. 5 years on the clock, still a very decent device.
Wait till apple buys the leftovers of the iris scan from Samsung and all the fans cheer it into mainstream
I promise you lil bro, we do not care
Bro I love the iris scanner
I promise your wrong @@lorddeecee
Yes
I promise you lil sis we don't care about your comment@@lorddeecee
No OS has anything comparable to the BlackBerry hub. Biggest missing feature from phones today.
6:00 hold up, samsung invented "face id" first
Wish pop up cameras would still be a thing, I barely take any selfies
Same! Also, being a pop-up does not downgrade the image quality, so it's a perfectly good solution. Ever since I have the S23, I usually flip the phone around anyways to take a selfie with the ultrawide (ALWAYS in frame) or the main cam, since the main camera is always a MUCH better sensor than any front-facing cam. For this reason, I also miss the small mirror next to the camera, like the old "pre-smart" phones had. It would make a separate selfie camera completely unnecessary, since you could compose a selfie with the help of the mirror and in exchange you'd have a better quality photo than with a regular selfie camera.
Pop up cameras were such an amazing thing, I am currently writing from my Xiaomi Mi9t Pro. It's still a good phone and had only a battery replacement due to its age. The full display with no camera hole was one of the main reasons I bought it back in 2019, also it was considerably cheaper compared to other phones with the same Snapdragon 855, mine was only 380 euros at the time of purchase for the 6/128 version
Pop-up cameras seem really good for privacy concerns. Is the camera secretly recording? Obviously not, it's inside the phone.
I remembered one other interesting tech phone, the projectors, while the Moto Z series had a external projector, for example:
-Galaxy Beam
-Blackview Max 1
Those had internal projectors, and they were amazing phones, sad that it was hard to do them. And overshadowed by screen mirroning, samsung DeX etc...
I just want you to know google recently shut down support for Chromecast
Dude it's actually kindof a pain to get your phone onto the TV again
1:30 why didnt LG and Motorola just use the USB-C port for their modular accesories
06:11 - There's been a couple of DECENT slide out keyboard phones I've owned, 1 - (Landscape) Nokia E7 and, 2 - (Portrate) Blackberry Torch 9810, I loved using both, typing was quick, accurate and efficient and apart from the newish Planet Computers 'Astro Slide/Astro Slide 5G' (a Nokia E7 looking thing) I WISH more manufacturers WOULD make more physical QWERTY keyboard phones, after all, ONE of the TOP THREE uses of phones nowadays IS STILL texting/instant messaging/Email ! 😏 😎🇬🇧
I've still got my old HTC Dream somewhere. Now that was a damn good phone.
A physical keyboard helps along with a micro SD slot for extra data storage.
The problem with microSD cards is software-based as well as hardware now, a lot of apps just aren't designed to read SD cards and they tend to be pretty slow in comparison.
What we *really* need is phones that can take those tiny postage-stamp SSDs, they're great.
The Phone with my favorite form factor to date was the Motorola Backflip. I still think it is one of the smartest designs ever.
Missed opportunity to talk about the Palm Pre. RIP. Great video though!
I just want the pop-up camera back, the og Find X is really one of the most beautiful phones I've ever seen, I still wish I could buy one!!😍
The Blackberry Priv's keyboard is still my favorite hardware feature to have ever used. Having the whole screen available when typing was great, and the keyboard was excellently designed and great to type on. Working as a trackpad for scrolling and a quick launcher were nice features too, but as you mentioned in the video the chip was suboptimal and prone to overheating, and I still don't understand why the camera was looking through plastic. I waited for so long hoping they would make a Priv 2 with TCL, but it never happened.
Modular smartphone is a crazy cool concept if only they experimented more and came up with a practical solution the whole industry would have looked different
I absolutely love your videos. I’ve seen a lot of phones with some unique features. Keep up the great work.😊
Had an LG Wing. Loved it till I got fed up repairing it.
Before that, a ZTE Axon M. A two screen phone before two screen phones were cool.
And before before that, a Microsoft Lumia 950 XL. A phone that had iris scanning before Samsung did.
What about the phones with extra screens on the back, like the YotaPhone, Nubia Z20 and Meizu Pro 7?
It's such an amazing concept to have a viewfinder to take selfies with the main camera.
Yay you posted. I love your videos!
Edge to edge on an iPhone 5 shell, running Android with a removal battery + headphone jack is my dream phone.
IP68
Just get the Samsung A55 or nothing phone 2A
@Retronyx Those aren't small phones though.
8:08 The flashlight pulse reader was actually in some Motorola phones if I remember correctly. I had a Moto G6 that could do that back in the day
I had it on symbian as a separate app.
Imagine the those who developed those and called it a flop and sue them for insulting which is way bizarre and absurd.
Great video and content as usual Hugh. I loved my LG G5. The removable battery and camera mount was brilliant for me.
LG also had a Guest Mode which was very subtle, you only needed to enter a different pin code and you could access to the allowed apps
Love the video man!
Blackberry Privs are hands down the most Handsome phone ever created. Curved screen, sliding keyboard, carbon fiber back, and the proportion is just perfect.
I’m personally most intrigued by the modular accessories and Blackberry’s picture password. I remember seeing a recent Xiaomi flagship (14 ultra?) having an optional case that adds extra battery and camera controls, which I find really cool
The LG Wing was awesome, the same is true for LG's dual screen cases for the G8 and V60 and this I wish would make a comeback. Getting a 2nd screen as an add-on in a case was always a cool idea.
I used to use a Windows phone, the 1020, with a 41 MP camera sensor. It came with a camera grip/extended battery. The camera grip made one end of the phone extra chunky so it could be held comfortably and confidently in the right hand. It had a dedicated shutter button and also had a small capacity extended battery built in.
I'll never forget that blackberry with the sliding keyboard. My boss had one and I was close to getting one too until they announced they were stopping support for it a couple of months after the launch.
I've never been so "sad" for a piece of tech, I really think they're was something they're. It was not even that thick, it just lacked the software support.
Someone really needs to come and disrupt the smartphone market and make them like PC, or at least Google should make the manufacturers open source their drivers after support has ended so they can be incorporated into AOSP.
I think modules could make a comeback:
1. phone design settled on a specific shape - no one is experimenting with crazy curves etc...
2. we don't rotate our phones so frequently due to massive prices and good enough specs
3. because of the 2, it would be reasonable to keep the mainboard the same for a few years and just improve cameras and extend hardware functionality.
6:56 I think there was also a phone where the was a simple spring-loaded mechanism? no need for fancy motor (another likely point of failure), just push-push solution with the same end result.
One of my favorite designs has to be the physical QWERTY keyboard that Blackberry phones had. Having a physical keyboard on an Android device is very interesting. I would like to see it come back.
9:35. NOTHING is impossible to hack and claiming that something is “unhackable” or “zero vulnerabilities” likely just drives a hacker to get in quicker.
Alright but the xbox one exists
Xbox one
@@sarcasticmcspastic The Xbox one/ series consoles were just hacked recently. Look online you can probably find more information abt it. It was patched pretty quick tho.
@@sarcasticmcspastic yt keeps deleting my comment, but it’s been done look online. Was patched quickly tho. Xb1/series consoles both.
Iris scanner 100% something I miss daily. Would have been great for masks and was so reliable wearing glasses!
The Note 7 really brought a lot of new things to the table
While simultaneously being a c4
It was the first phone that could heat up a whole room in the winter
Another now-dead weird form factor: the Asus PadFone, which docked your phone into a tablet. And as you mentioned with the Moto X modules, phones with projectors built in were attempted in the early days too.
7:49 I have a Xiaomi 14T Pro, and for some reason, deep into the phone options you can find a hearth rate monitor which uses the fingerprint scanner
2:39 there's also a g8x and Velvet, they got the dual screen case as well.
I have the LG Velvet and that one also came with a dual screen case. It is amazing and way better than foldables imo if you consider the price and durability(and longevity since the phone is usable separately incase the base fails). Amazing for multitasking and emulation, I just wish we get this again in the future.
I just broke my LG G5 battery connector 10 minutes before watching this video. Great video tho
Why you still using it brother
Just get an iphone
@@rex77x lmao
Please get it fixed, don't throw the phone out ❤
@@rex77x I use both an iPhone 12 Pro Max and Galaxy A71 lol
The Samsung A80, sliding the camera module from back to front, deserved to be here!
Motorola with moto mods was a really cool take on adding modularity and capabilities to phones, the LG wing was sci-fi awesome, but then not all fantastic ideas catch on.
The LG dual screen phones were great and way more practical than foldables. They even had stylus support on both screens
Is that an Xperia 5 v at the end alongside the iPhone? Can I buy it from you?
The Samsung with the strange charger... I believe the Panasonic Toughbook FZ-N1 phones (with barcode reader) had that charger cable/port, too (on the side).
Hugh. I wonder if your itest can support android head unit for the car. I have tried on the android head unit. However, for a weird reason, information immediately shows for a split second, and it disappear.
In the app, does screen burnin test has been fixed? In Google play store reviews, there was multiple complaints about it.
Remember the Xiaomi Mix 3, that had a hidden front camera with flash that showed up when you slide the screen down.
the heart rate sensor also allowed blood oxygen and stress level monitoring, it was excellent for me. I had an s10
I'm still rocking my LG Wing, I don't care about any of the downsides all that much anymore, they used to be dealbreakers but I came to embrace the fact they aren't (like the 60hz screens, the mediocre battery life, the mid range processor) which are actual downsides, but not enough to turn down the cool af phone itself
I bought LG G5 just as a piece of industrial design art. It's such a gem.
2:53 The LG Velvet had a dual screen case for it as well.
The galaxy A80's flip camera was a pretty clever idea, don't know why it didn't work tbh...
I'm fine with none of these features returning.
What I want back is the headphone jack, screen with no cutouts (even if it means bezels come back), micro SD card, and maybe removable batteries.
9:20 I remember seeing a Samsung Galaxy A80, which had a rotating camera module, with good specs for its time, I wish Samsung continued to make experiments with such features to their phones rather than releasing incremental-updates phones each year
Yes! Same with Asus Zenfone 7 Pro and the Zenfone 8 Flip. You could take a selfie with the main camera, which is always the best camera on a phone. Also, fun fact for you: Samsung already had a rotating camera in 2003 with the X600.
You forgot the 3D touch from iPhones and the pressure sensitive touch of pixel 4. They were really exciting
For the heartrate monitoring, its present on every xiaomi device with an underscreen optical fingerprint sensor. However while devices with chinese firmware can access it from the xiaomi health app, for global rom its hidden in a random settings menu so most users won't even notice that its a feature.
I wish you would do a video about using older flagship phones and the risk of using phones that no longer receives security patches. How old is too old. Is there security aps that can be used in place of updates?
I genuinely miss the rounded edge displays that were on samsung's S7 and S8. My S8+ is the most aesthetically pleasing phone I've ever used.
I know xiaomi uses the underscreen fingerprint sensor for heart-rate sensing, and you can also use different fingers to open different "spaces", albeit less smoothly than the anomphone, since it has to load a totally different environment
2:43 That is actually incorrect, as the LG Velvet also had a dual screen option, but are very rare as the LG Velvet was a midrange phone that didn't sell well.
I'm still using an Oppo Reno 10x Zoom. Something oddly satisfying every time the front camera pops up.
9:06 Galaxy Note 3, had it for a few years
i miss my s5 and note 5
There's multiple brand that utilize under screen hrm sensor (or maybe udp also used for hrm), realme and xiaomi is the example
My first two Android phones had physical keyboards (HTC Dream and Desire Z) and I have missed that ever since.
The Wing is so cool. Not gonna lie that as an LG fan, I want one
I'd argue that MagSafe/Qi2 are basically reimaginings of MotoMods. Just with all the ones that look cool but aren't actually very useful left behind.
So sad the pop up camera didn't take off. I loved the seamless display of my phone when I had one
I really miss the abacus feature from my old phone
Is iTest app on android support themed icon feature?
9:07 My Note 3 also has the funky connector
What about the projector phone or the one that took 3D pictures or even sonys under water phone. Those were great for the time.
LG G5 was almost like a wake-up call for LG because that phone was hilariously bad despite on paper, a unique idea. I think personally G6 was a good redemption for them.
Nokia N8 and FM Transmiter. You could share your music with any kind of audio equipement.
My Lenovo Vibe Shot from 2016 also had a randomised keypad setting.
Hugh Jefferies I have a Huawei mate 9 they need a new display cause I dropped it and broke it and he needs a new display. How much do you think it would cost to fix that?
AFAIK, all Android phone with under display finger print sensor should be able to do heart rate sensor. I know my Xiaomi Pocophone X6 can, Xiaomi just buried the feature under the setting, additional settings
My Xiaomi Mi 9T had such a motorized camera and I loved it since I rarely use the selfie camera and had a full screen.
To be honest, I don't need a selfie camera at all. Only usable feature for this is face unlock, which I don't even have on my Pixel 6 so I wouldn't miss it.
The CalyxOS Rom and lineage OS have also a optional pin scramble option.
Iris scanning was useful when we had to wear a face mask. Up there with the headphone jack on features I miss.
I really wanted the LG Wing to work, would've been a fantastic phone for me had it been continued.
I'm sorry, but I'd really like the LG wing, since then I can watch a video at full horizontal screen as well as reading comments, using another app, etc. I'd love to have that.
9:07 galaxy Note 3 and galaxy round also have USB 3
i have a tiny little hope that camera array/island on back plates will still quickly become an obsolete design. it's a literal... size comparison contest and at the moment it seems it aims at talking to less technical people under that classic false pretense "bigger means better".
The phones with the biggest camera modules do objectively have the best cameras though, oppo find x7, Xiaomi 14u, pixel 9 pro XL, iPhone 16 pro max etc. bigger sensors ARE objectively better.