I mean this right here: I miss those glorious days in the late 2000s when phones were fun. You could buy a phone that fit your lifestyle. If you text and email a lot, get a phone with a keyboard. Take a lot of photos? Get a camera phone. Like listening to music? Here's a media phone. Like games? Here's a gaming phone. Just want a thing that can make phone calls that will last a month on a charge because you don't use it much? Here's a regular old flip phone.

Nowadays you don't even have a real choice in size. Want a small phone that's easy to fit in a pocket because you usually have a laptop with you anyway? Get bent!

My phone's camera is complete shit and I still don't bother with my DSLR for the reasons you describe.

You can get way more compact mirrorless, my Fuji X-E3 + 35mm f/2 is 550g and the difference in image quality is very clear.

See how I said "I", that means it's a personal view so the statistics for the masses don't matter...but also this post is about declining sales.

You made zero substantive input to this conversation.

In 2017 I bought a Lenovo P2. It had a midrange processor, 64gb of storage (pretty decent for the time), amoled screen, audio jack, 5100 mAh battery, and a price tag of €350.

I only had to charge it every other day, video looked amazing and it was decently prized.

I want my phone to be usable with a dock where I can put in a keyboard, mouse and screen to use as a PC like the steam deck.