Even though, flip phones and slide phones got really popular in the late 00's, despite having many moving parts. And my phone never seriously broke.

I don't think so. I think it will be a great advantage for customers, once all the kinks are worked out. Phones will fit so much better into pockets and bags. I said 5.5" phones are a useless gimmicks and nobody really wanted those. Nowadays I can barely find <5" phones. The market is unpredictable.

The biggest problem is the kind of games on phones and I doubt Qualcomm can change anything about it. There are a handful of good games but mostly idle games and trash. A savior for phone gaming are emulators though.

I think it's kind of a bummer that nearly all of them use ARM reference cores. It'd be more interesting if they designed their own cores.

I think Apple let's their phone hover at 80% and only let's them fully charge to be at 100% when your alarm goes off. It's pretty smart.

It's not completely over yet. Foldable phones are still in their infancy and some years from now they'll get into the mainstream. But the **big** innovation stopped when the phone market shrank to a few big players.

Man, I had high hopes for the Ubuntu phone. They had a kickstarter for a phone that could be used as a normal phone (Ubuntu touch instead of Android), but could theb be plugged into a docking station and then be used as a full Ubuntu PC. It's a shame they couldn't get the funding.

Maybe it's because I'm a programmer, but what are people using their expensive phones for? I don't know a single app that'd make full use of 8-16 cores. The 2-4 GB of RAM are only justifiable for Chrome though.