99% of phones are extremely similar, I don’t think anybody needed that many brands. Even now it sort of boils down to Apple vs Samsung vs Chinese brands for most people.

It’s almost like wealth is consolidating.

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 :-(

There were more than 500 brands of smartphones? 🙃