If you want to sell phones, give people a reason. Have your phones do things that others cannot (and not just adding differential features with Tesla-style arb

If you want to sell phones, give people a reason. Have your phones do things that others cannot (and not just adding differential features with Tesla-style arbitrary software limitations). Nobody is addressing the market that One Plus used to target. I'd be genuinely excited for: 1. Premium specs at a good price. Indulge on the CPU & RAM, save money on the physical materials. I'm adding a case anyway, I don't need expensive aluminum. 2. A rootable device (i.e. unlocked bootloader and downloadable factory images to restore if needed). Root friendly would be even better. This is even more important now that Google is removing features and cracking down on legitimate things. Try recording your phone calls in 2023, even though this was trivial to do 10 years ago. 3. Rear fingerpint sensor 4. Left-aligned camera notch 5. Headphone jack 6. SD card slot 7. Modularity, or at least a replaceable battery 8. First party support for Graphene OS and/or third party ROMs would be killer 9. External display support. 10 years ago I could plug in an adapter and get HDMI and it worked wonderfully. Now Pixel phones won't do that at all without special crappy hardware. Samsung is at least working on this with Dex, but even simple display mirroring would be great.