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I am all about trying new stuff though. Remember when phones had cool gimmicks? Now they are all exactly the same damn thing. Shit, even my old Samsung Galaxy whatever had an IR blaster and heart rate monitor. Now they don't even have 3.5mm head phone jacks. Every phone is the same black rectangle. I think a phone like the one from the Spike Jonze movie "Her" would be sweet.
Gimmicks are expensive and too risky, some or all people would dismiss the product immediately. We'll never see it anymore because we're no fun now.
Then again, folding screens are not that different.
I keep looking at phones with IR cameras. Thermal imaging is super handy for electro/mechanical diagnostics, and some of them are under $500.