It's a weird cyclical thing.

Samsung galaxy s2 was a super small super thin phone, 15 years ago almost, which still had user replaceable battery, microsd, 3.5mm, gps, and everything most people would expect smartphone to have.

We then spent a decade making phones 0.2" bigger each generation as if that's an advancement - I.e. As if we couldn't have made them big in the first place (all the while removing physical features).

Then we started making them thin again, as if we couldn't have made them thin before.

It makes me think of cars - VW golf used to be a small car, then it kept growing... So they released Polo... Which kept growing so they made lupo... But each year my entire life they have ads like "6 inches bigger than before" or "10cm more legroom than competition", as if there haven't been small and large cars before.

Grumble Grumble, seen it all before, kids get off my lawn :-)

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bluSCALE4 5 days ago | parent [-]

I agree to an extent. Most phones back then had no water protection. They also didn't last long so most people carried extra batteries which sucks. Honestly, I'd welcome the whole non replaceable battery if I could completely submerge my phone in water. Maybe when they get rid of the charging port.

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bartekrutkowski 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

You can submerge recent iPhones completely in water for few years now. Every year I make some quite fun and surprisingly looking underwater pictures with mine, that's just fine afterwards given I'm still able to write this comment on it.

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mauriciob 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Reminds me of the fun times of dropping the phone and having the phone go to one side, battery to the other and back cover to a third place.

	▲	NikolaNovak 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Pseudo-scientifically, it always seemed that worked to dissipate impact kinetic energy - I dropped my s2 and s5 a million times and picked up the parts with no damage. The more modern phones don't fall apart, they just crack :-(