12 Unique Smartphone Features & Designs That Flopped

Did any of your phones have these now abandoned features?
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[williamsaad]

You forgot the Note's 7 explosive battery feature! Such an innovative idea lol

[Rayzorexe]

I still love my LG Wing
Also a little note at 8:40
The Note 3 which came out a few months before the S5, had that micro USB 3.0 feature.

[christopherdecorte]

I miss the ir blaster to control my tv and and other media devices with my s5 I never bothered looking for my tv remote I sat down and used my phone life was simple then.

[glasseffect]

Nice compilation!
Anomaly: 3.5mm never failed, but removed nonetheless. It's however good to see some newer devices revive it for a very specific purpose: Music.

[NamanArusia]

Sorry this might be a rant, and not to be too contrarian, but LG Wing's demise is not a flaw of the T-shape design, rather the flaw with the smartphone industry mindset. The ability to hold a phone so that Content is available in LANDSCAPE while simultaneously having an infinitely customizable INPUT SECTION (bottom squarish screen) meant you could do on this phone you couldn't do on any other phone. Were there an enthusiastic push on software side to maximize the utility of its unique form factor, that phone could've single-handedly saved LG's phone division, at the very least, for a few more years. But when you had giant social media apps which were reluctant on using Camera API on Android side for years until the controversy got traction, you already know the app developers won't give 2 flying fracks about a single phone, regardless of how revolutionary it could've been. Look at S-Pen versus Apple Pencil. Despite being years ahead, the S-Pen community is still crawling, while Apple Pencil already have become gold standard for digital artists in the industry.

[HayesTech]

I absolutely loved the Blackberry Slider. I really wish they would have had better software and cameras for it. I would still use that phone today.

[jerome]

For lockscreen, LG's knock code was the best specialty when fingerprint sensor was not a thing in smartphones yet.

[logictv]

I wish they would bring back the removable battery

[floppytomato]

3D Touch is missing from this list. Apple removed it in favor of Haptic Touch

[MilesProwerTailsFox]

Wait till apple buys the leftovers of the iris scan from Samsung and all the fans cheer it into mainstream

[franklinjames]

The Note3 series of phones from Samsung used USB 3 connectors as well. Just FYI.

[qv]

I was so excited when I saw the LG wing. Exactly what I needed, fullscreen films and messenger at the same time.

[PeterdaPanda]

Iris scanning on Samsung phones was released way before it was ready for the market, it was more or less a half-baked implementation when it was released.


It would've worked better now since front facing and IR cameras have high enough resolution to work at appropriate viewing distance from users.

[TheOfficialMateoPlays]

It's sad that nowadays everything is the same every year, sure some phones had gimmicky features but it was always fun to see them and maybe some people did actually use those features.

[jamesbrooks]

I was disappointed that motorized selfie cameras did not stick around. No punch hole/Dynamic Island, just an uninterrupted display. Plus, it felt super futuristic. I also wish qwerty slider smartphones like the Droid 1-4 stuck around!

[soaring__sky]

Correction on 2:48 it also supported the LG Velvet. I actually owned one with the dual screen case

[samlung]

This video is for people who always say, "why can't phones be unique or fun like back in the day"

[kernboristv]

I did not know why the pop-up camera did not take off but the pop- up camera was so different

[vxgaming]

I'm still rocking my LG Wing, I don't care about any of the downsides all that much anymore, they used to be dealbreakers but I came to embrace the fact they aren't (like the 60hz screens, the mediocre battery life, the mid range processor) which are actual downsides, but not enough to turn down the cool af phone itself

[AndreasJordanidis]

the heart rate sensor also allowed blood oxygen and stress level monitoring, it was excellent for me. I had an s10