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I miss all the different shapes. Nokia alone had so many different shapes in the early 2000s, different layouts, wide ranges of colour ect.

It's just rectangles now

https://www.flickr.com/photos/bryanthui/3881160306/

> With a notch

I believe it was one of (if not) the first with a notch.

The notch isn't really a design feature though... assuming you're being sarcastic.

One man's notch is another's "edge to edge display". The cutout allows a higher display to body ratio, which some people value.

In other words, an unfortunate trade-off which exists due to a technical limitation. No one _wants_ a notch.

And the software ecosystem. If the millions of 3rd party apps only support rectangles, it’s hard to do something different.

What is there to innovate on, design wise? I'm not saying there's nothing, but a lot of people bemoan the "lack of innovation" in mobile device design, but never say what they'd like to see, design wise.