After what generation did the good ol days of pure utility based innovation, disappear and smartphone really start to become bloatware with silly features to appeal to a young an impulsive audience?
Decline of Smartphone Value
Cooper Richardson
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Jose Bennett
when people born after 1995 came of phone age, so around 2013
Juan King
>start?
Andrew Collins
what's a good 2013 or before smartphone I can buy that is decently future proof for basic use?
Levi Mitchell
>implying smartphones have ever not been bloated devices filled with silly features
OP confirmed one of those idiots that spends more then $50 when buying a phone.
Ian Walker
Almost none.
You need a phone that does voice over LTE.
Voice over LTE started to be used only about late 2012.
LG Connect 4G is one example.
Jaxson Martinez
the only benefit i've ever gotten from a smartphone is not needing a separate car gps in the 2000s, and that's just a small convenience, smartphones are trash
Liam Wood
It all makes sense now. Peak smartphone was 2013—2014, now all flagships are notched glass sandwich no headphone jack pieces of shit.
Joshua Powell
Nowadays smartphones are like cars, there's no innovation except the size and shape
Luke Allen
Had an HTC One (M7), back when they owned 25% of beats audio.
It was the best phone I ever had.
Amazing audio quality, 2 speakers, metal back, flat screen, a very good flagship in it's time.
Switched to S6 edge+ then S8+, both are trash.
I even feel the S8+ to be trashier than the S6E+ since I felt no significant improvement in terms of disk space or performance.
Samsung is shit, don't buy it. Too bad HTC went down the glass-back route/no jack plug route too.