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YES!!!! I miss my Motorola Hint and my HTC Surround! The Xperia play, the Lumia 1020 even. All phones look the same now and they all do the same things. All you really pay for these days is a little more speed and a few more pixels but they're 4 times the cost.
Because now a phone is just a touchscreen with a processor behind it. It's up to the software developers to bring the value, and they don't dare change that because any deviation will prevent the next flappy bird from running on their hardware.
Very true, plus I very much miss seeing manufacturers put their foot out there with hardware configurations. Naturally there were plenty of flop products like the LG Wing with it's marginally useful T shape, but examples like the HTC Surround with extensible surround sound speakers was really cool. Today's phone companies won't even consider those kind of attempts at producing something different than a rectangular glass slab.