When the Affordable Beats the Spectacular devices
Smartphones have been around for almost exactly one decade. Perhaps a little more, if we count the early attempts made by a variety of manufacturers to release handsets with no physical keyboards and large screens. They were different from today's smartphones - they used styluses instead of fingers and had physical keys for answering and ending phone calls. Basically, they were phones with extra functions meant for a business environment, capable of handling documents and spreadsheets on the go. They were great devices but not desirable for the general public. Then the iPhone came along, and things changed for good.
Year after year, smartphone makers kept pushing out increasingly spectacular devices. The processing power hidden inside the smartphones' ever-thinning bodies has grown expo...