We are nearing the end of another decade marked by a flux of mobile technology breakthroughs and mishaps, having come so far from the very incipient stages of the smartphone. Innovation is the name of the game in this ever-growing and now increasingly diversified smartphone market, with Chinese companies like Huawei, OnePlus, and Xiaomi making waves in the western market and competing alongside household names like Google, Apple and Samsung. How have the past 10 years shown changes in smartphone design and function?
As we look back at the 2010s, we remember moments when front-facing cameras were a novelty, exploding phones were a thing, and bigger (screens) meant better.
New Atlas covers all this and more on their smartphone history review.
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