There were more than 500 brands of smartphones? 🙃

I miss HTC. To this day, I’ve not heard a better speaker than the HTC One M8.

Everywhere I went people who heard me play music on it were amazed that a mobile phone could sound as good as a proper iPod dock/Bluetooth speaker.

Phone speakers since then have regressed, it sucks :-(

I think part of the reason is that because phones are now in the ‘matured’ part of the marketing cycle. There’s a smaller and smaller noticeable difference in performance between a $200 phone and a $1000 phone, and so companies need to compete on smaller and smaller profit margins, and against very inexpensive import brands.

It’s almost like wealth is consolidating.