From Siri to Night Sight, these are the post-iPhone features we can't live without.
We can thank Nokia for debuting wireless charging on its Nokia Lumia 920, the first commercially available phone with the feature. It used the Qi specification, which is still used today by mobile giants Samsung, Apple, Google, and OnePlus. With wireless charging, you can place your phone on a charging pad rather than plugging in a cord. It’s convenient when topping up at work or before you turn in for the night—just set the phone on top of the pad and forget it.
Wireless charging has its drawbacks: It isn’t entirely “wireless” and although charging speeds have increased, the tech isn’t very energy efficient. Moreover, the adoption of Qi charging has forced phone makers to switch to glass backs to improve connectivity, though Nokia deserves even more credit for using polycarbonate.Advertisement
The Motorola Atrix was the first phone to come with a fingerprint scanner, beating Apple’s iPhone 5s to the feature by two years. And boy, what a phone it was. Nothing was conventional about the Atrix, including the fingerprint scanner, which was a small rectangular pad located at the top of the phone. But if you thought that was wonky, the phone’s main selling point was Lap Dock, a dummy laptop you would slot the Atrix into.
In any case, the Atrix introduced a feature that would move us closer to a world without passcodes and swipe patterns. It made logging into your phone nearly instantaneous and introduced another layer of security. Fingerprint sensors would become a standard feature across flagship phones and eventually be replaced or supplemented with facial recognition, which was introduced on Android 4 in 2011 but first popularized on the iPhone X in 2017.
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