For me it’s the notification light you used to find on older phones, was particularly good to know if your phone was charged without picking it up

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    1 year ago

    without all the extra parts needed to support these features you can make the phone thinner

    I don’t think the 3.5mm jack is the limiting spec on how thick phones are. The latest iphone (15) without the jack is 7.8mm thick, while my phone that has one is 7.9mm. The 15 pro is 8.3mm. Thickness may have been a selling point in the past but I don’t think people care anymore bc essentially everything’s pretty thin these days–size concerns are way more focused on length/width.