Smartphone features obsolete in 2026 include headphone jacks, microSD slots, and pop-up cameras as AI, wireless charging, and cloud storage take over.

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Smartphone cameras 2026 focus on AI-powered features, computational photography, and advanced sensors, delivering pro-grade ...

Over the past decade, a lot of smartphone features have been phased out to design evolution, and some of them I don't miss at all. Removable batteries were handy, but aren't practical nowadays, and ...

When buying a smartphone, there are dozens of different factors to consider, especially if you’re trying to decide between a few popular phones that seem like essentially the same thing, just with ...

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Feature phones are having a quiet resurgence in 2025. As smartphone fatigue grows, more users are turning to minimal devices that focus on core functions like calling, texting, and music playback.

The list of features on your smartphone is likely a long one. But there's one most phones have that we want to pay particular attention to here. It's the "do not disturb" feature that can block or ...

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If you own an Android smartwatch and use it just for the usual calorie and step tracking, you might be missing out on many of its lesser-known features.