Modern Smartphone Trends that Need to Stop

The Physical LED Notification Light: A Sad Trend

I find it very irritating and this is a very sad trend that I'm seeing on a lot of smartphones these days. Next, the removal of the headphone jack. This started with the high-end smartphones and these days, I would say most of the new Android high-end smartphones don't have it sadly. I'm testing this Rog Phone Three, the Rog II had a physical headphone jack, but this one does not have that. That's a sad trend that we are seeing in the high-end smartphones now. But now, this is slowly trickling even into mid-range smartphones. Some of the new phones that I've seen below 30,000 are now omitting the headphone jack and they don't even have a stereo speaker so I don't get it why this stupidity and many of the vendors these days just don't seem to care.

Many people keep asking me for gaming-related advice, and I still say that a wired headset is way better than most Bluetooth headsets with even very advanced Bluetooth headsets there is a micro lag that you'll notice that will simply be not there with a wired headset. But again, this is a sad trend we are seeing and now slowly, it's crippling even in mid-range smartphones which is very annoying. I would say.

A Full View Display: A Nice but Inconvenient Trend

The other trend that I've noticed is almost a year now, most of the mid-range phones are having full view displays that is the new aspect ratio, and it's nice to look at because the bezels are very thin on the top so it looks very cool. But, the side effect of this what I've noticed in some of the mid-range smartphones that I had reviewed recently for example from Redmi even Realme is that generally the proximity sensor is there on the small bezel over here but on many of these new smartphones, I feel the proximity sensor is taking a hit because when you take calls like this because the proximity sensor is not big enough or not calibrated enough the screen just lights up when you're talking and this actually, uh all those buttons on the screen can get activated for example it can even disconnect calls. This is happening a lot lately I've noticed on mid-range smartphones.

I've noticed that on some of the Redmi phones, some of the what do you say uh Realme phones and even one Motorola phone so this is an issue and uh these manufacturers need to address this one concentrate a little bit on the proximity sensor because that's such an important thing they're just concentrating on the design aspect. Fortunately, does not happen on premium handsets so it's not like these manufacturers cannot do it because the premium smartphone manufacturers are doing it from a long time and it's unacceptable to have a bad proximity sensor because every time you take a call you're talking the screen will just light up go off light up go off very irritating I would say.

Stereo Speakers: A Necessary Innovation

One trend that I want to see on mid-range Android smartphones is that uh I don't know if it will happen or not but I want stereo speakers to come on a mid-range Android smartphone that will be a big innovation. I would say instead of these stupid gimmicks, instead of room uh I would be very happy if they remove some of the gimmicks and give us a stereo speaker in a mid-range Android smartphone because trust me guys these days we are consuming a lot of content on our smartphones for example watching videos even playing games and when you have that stereo speaker actually it makes a lot of difference I would say so I hope that comes instead of the stupid gimmicks.

Gimmicky Trends to Stop

This is my top five gimmicks that I'm noticing on modern smartphones what do you think about the same do you think you have one or two features on your smartphone which you think was a gimmick if so do let me know in the comment section below.