Modern smartphones have become indispensable tools of our everyday lives. With every generation, the devices in our pockets have bigger screens, more internal memory, better processors, and more camera megapixels. But do these improvements make a real change to the usability? What is it that people really expect from their phones? It is really bigger screens, better processors or bigger batteries? Not quite. Among all the nifty new features there are just a few which have made actual impact (like the superfast fingerprint readers in recent flagships) and improved the way we use smartphones. Many others, though, quickly turn out to be just hot air at launch events, intended only to impress the audience. Smartphone models which no longer than a decade ago were hailed the ultimate multimedia powerhouses are now just unwanted slabs of plastic, buried deep in your desk drawer. Where is mobile phone evolution going to lead us? Where does this cycle end? In spite of the enormous advancements the mobile tech industry has made, customers rarely get what they really need. If we carefully analyze our daily usage and actual needs, it quickly turns out that mobile phone users and manufacturers have long been talking at cross purposes. This problem touches many aspects of mobile phone design.
