[DerfNet]

No headphone jack, no removable battery, no expandable storage, has an always-listening "feature" under the guise of music detection. And this is "the year's best smartphone".

When did smartphones start regressing?

[Slackwise → DerfNet]

> When did smartphones start regressing?

When they got rid of keyboards.

Then your other mentioned features, the SD cards and batteries left quickly after, but the keyboard was the first to go. Now I struggle with typing in frustration, whereas I used to be able to type full paragraphs without even looking at the phone, including backspaces, on my old WinMo, BlackBerry, and early Android phones.

[antisthenes → DerfNet]

Around 2014-2015 it seems.

Sometime after "waterproofing" (read - planned obsolescence without removable batteries) became a major selling feature.

[highace]

This article is a mess.

- Shows Pixel 2 XL image at the top

- Refers to the phone as the Pixel 2 (non-XL) all throughout the article

- Uses the dimensions of the Pixel 2 (non-XL)

- Uses the resolution of the Pixel 2 XL

- Uses the price of the non-XL

Unless he's implying both phones are the phone of the year, this is nothing but confusing.

[Whil-]

Low credibility on this article. Mostly just an advertisement/personal opinion piece. Move along everybody. :-)

[govg]

Reads far more about an advertisement that barely has details than an actual review or comparison article as the headline suggests.

[jotm]

> biannual time again

So... twice a year? Are you fucking serious...

Here I am enjoying my M8s, I have 2 of them because they never fail :D

Cost per month is astronomically low for the 2 phones (1 main job, 2nd side business) and getting lower every day...

[tomcooks]

With reviews like this no wonder the author changes phones biannually. Terrible marketing plug with data referring to another model being drowned in filler text. Not cool