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When cell phones first came out, they were just bricks, and nothing else. Then people started to be attracted to phones of smaller sizes and proportions.

After that, in the early 2000s, flip phones revolutionized the mobile phone market, as people did not have to constantly lock their phone to ensure that it would not dial randomly, and they could answer a call just by flipping the phone open.

As the decade progressed, slider phones started to replace these phones, as they were more compact when opened and closed and could also be used without being opened, while they also locked automatically when shut.

Then, in 2007, the iPhone was released, forever changing the cell phone market. People freaked out about the iPhone almost as much as Windows 95 when it was first released. The iPhone, a combination of a video iPod and cell phone, also had amazing multitouch features, WiFi, Youtube, and a lot of applications all built into it.

After the iPhone, more phones followed with multitouch capabilities, but some tried to fix the problem with the iPhone's touch-type screen by introducing a slide-out keyboard under the touch screen for the best of both worlds, including ease of typing. Phones like this include the LG Voyager, LG Xenon, and the Samsung Rant.

Which new thing will be the next big thing that everybody hopes to get in a phone? I think it will be something to do with apps, or maybe a cellphone with laptop capabilities.