UI/UX people want to actually do something innovative that people might actually like and use? Give us a couple programmable buttons on the side of the phone that are recessed enough to not get activated by keys in your pocket. Maybe we can even call them something like, 'function buttons' and label them with an 'F' or something and then number them so they can be recognized at a glance. I know it's innovative and has never been done before but I have confidence it can be done.
There was this invention called a flip phone and you could close it so it is harder to press the buttons with your pocket keys but sometimes thin cards could slide through the closed openings
This flip phone invention had physical buttons on the inside instead of a virtual touch screen keyboard
Some of them can access the internet supposedly
And they still sell them new in some places in USA
@shortstories I do miss being able to set speed dials and being able to start a call before you had even gotten the phone up to your ear. Had a flip phone for a contract a couple years ago and it had some Android LiteⓇ™ that ran slow as balls. I remember lag between each button press while dialing numbers really annoying me. Shame because I miss physical buttons, too.