An ideal smartphone still does not exist, and it's strange, because all its components are known. Here they are:.

- Top-level processor, a maximum of RAM and a large drive.

- High-quality dual camera.

- Metal and glass housing with water protection.

- Wireless charging and a good battery.

- Loud stereo speakers, output for wired headphones.

- Screen with minimal frames and resolution close to QuadHD for VR helmet.

- Biometric unblocking (via finger, eyes or face).

- Support for up-to-date updates (pure Android or iOS).

- Working as a computer when connected to a monitor.

No fiction. All these functions exist in different devices, but no manufacturer could combine them in one device. Samsung is close to creating an ideal like no other, but it, unfortunately, can not provide the actual updates to Android.

Create the perfect smartphone can only three companies: Apple, Google and Microsoft. But neither the iPhone 8, nor Pixel 2, nor the mystical Surface Phone (or Surface Mobile?) Will not have all the described qualities. The iPhone 8 will not be able to work as a computer when connected to a monitor, Pixel 2 does not have a dual camera, both are deprived of a 3.5 mm headphone output, and nothing is known about the Surface smartphone except that it will have an OS installed, Where there are no normal applications and games.

Perhaps the fact is that to produce an ideal smartphone is a hopeless occupation at a time. He will set such a bar, which it is impossible to overcome in the foreseeable future. Such a smartphone will need to be changed not in a year or two, but in 5 years. Proceeds of the manufacturer will decrease, investors will panic, stocks will fall, and there it is not far and to bankruptcy.

It turns out that manufacturers have to balance and restrain the desire of engineers to cram into the smartphone all the most advanced and in-demand technologies. Companies do not work at full strength, and this is clearly visible.

They specifically and without even agreeing with each other always leave some kind of a chip for the future, so that there was something to surprise future buyers. At the same time, any large vendor closely follows trends, works on unique technologies and tries to get ahead of competitors. At the same time, he does so that in six months or a year it is possible to "outstrip oneself" by showing users what they have not yet seen. Unfortunately, these are the rules of the game, and they allow the manufacturers of smartphones to stay afloat for many years.