What new things are in? It seems no new breaking tech was introduced for the last 10 years. What all the engineers doing on this time?
Its same that from user side a phone from 5 years ago will be just fine for you as the most new ones.
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You will notice that certain things tend towards a common design by their very nature.
There aren’t a ton of ways to make a steering wheel, same for a hammer.
Smartphones are kind of like that. You need a screen, microphone, cameras, etc. as u/XsNR pointed out. Cramming all those in a form factor that you can hold in your hands and have it work will tend towards the smartphone designs we see now.
That doesn’t mean that aren’t some innovations that occur like fingerprint readers, better haptics, better computing power, better displays, etc. Take an iPhone from 2009, the size is different, the overall design cues are quite similar, but if you were to try to use it, you might find the experience a pain.
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