Apple’s 3D Touch on iPhone. Force Touch or whatever they called it. The ability to hard press to get something like a right-click. Wish they’d kept it. Used it every day for placing my cursor.
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Probably the Quick View Window case on the LG G-series phones. The overview on notifications was great and allowed answering calls without opening the flap while protecting most of the screen. Also the reduced visible screen space did not blast you with light when checking time in the middle of the night.
FM radio. Also my old Motorola had a "karate-chop to activate camera" which was very useful
I'm using "double chop" to activate flashlight and double twist turns the camera on.
Hardware navegation buttons.
The ringlight on the bottom of Xperia U.
Stadia, I had great internet and it worked great.
Retractable fountain pens. I could never afford one though.
Can you now? Looks like they are 6 for $10 on Amazon, and you get 10 refill cartridges.
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I have a samsung flip. I cannot tell you how much I love this phone.
The pixel pinch phone body for the Google assistant. Boy how I want that feature badly when I was using OnePlus 3T. It felt like one of those double tap at the back of iphone little niche thing.
I really like since it give the user different kind of input to interact with the phone quickly. We have the double tap and holding for power button, double tap the top of the screen, the screenshot combo button and etc. Same like the interface for controlling your wireless earbud.
The pain for installation/maintenance/replacement for that input must be a nightmare though.
My old Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 had magnetic sensors in it that would shut off the screen. How it worked is you would put a case on it with a cover that would fold over the screen, and the cover had magnets in it that would activate the sensors and turn off the screen when you closed it.
Anyway, it got old and unreliable and I had to replace it. The new ones don't have that feature.