Prompt 6 of 7
Name a part of a smartphone you can see or touch (accessories don't count)
66 accepted answers across 5 rarity tiers.
100 ptsOne in a Krillion2 answers
The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.
- Heart rate sensor— Samsung put a pulse reader beside the flash, then quietly dropped it.
- Trackball— BlackBerry's little rolling pearl, worn smooth by a million thumbs.
85 ptsDeep Cut18 answers
Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.
- Charging contacts— Sony Xperia Z's magnetic dock pins on the side edge.
- Cooling vent— Asus ROG Phone vents heat through a port on its side.
- Gamepad— Sony Xperia Play slid open into a PlayStation controller.
- Gesture area— Palm Pre's touch strip below the screen took swipe gestures.
- Glyph lights— Nothing Phone's LED strips light up the back.
- HDMI port— HTC Evo 4G and Motorola Droid X had micro HDMI out.
- Iris scanner— Galaxy S8 unlocked by scanning your eyes through a window up top.
- Lanyard hole— Sony Xperia and rugged phones mould a strap eyelet into the housing.
- LiDAR scanner— iPhone 12 Pro added the black dot to the camera bump.
- Media keys— Nokia N95 slid the other way to reveal music keys.
- Programmable button— Cat and Sonim rugged phones carry a push-to-talk key.
- Scroll wheel— BlackBerry 7290 scrolled with a wheel on the right edge.
- Shoulder buttons— Asus ROG Phone's AirTriggers sit where a gamepad's bumpers would.
- Slider— HTC Dream slid open to reveal its keyboard in 2008.
- Swivel screen— T-Mobile Sidekick's screen spun around to uncover the keyboard.
- Temperature sensor— Pixel 8 Pro's sensor on the camera bar reads object temperature.
- Thermal camera— Cat S60 built a FLIR thermal lens into a rugged phone.
- Trackpad— BlackBerry Bold 9700 swapped the trackball for an optical pad.
60 ptsRare27 answers
Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.
- Action button— iPhone 15 Pro replaced the mute switch with it.
- Antenna— Palm Treo 650's stub, and the lines on iPhone 6's back.
- Bezel— iPhone 14 shrank it to a sliver around the screen.
- Bixby button— Galaxy S8 to S10 had a dedicated key for Samsung's assistant.
- Call button— HTC Dream and early BlackBerrys had green and red call keys.
- Camera bump— iPhone 11 Pro's square bump started the trend.
- Camera button— iPhone 16's Camera Control and Sony Xperia's shutter key.
- Cover screen— Galaxy Z Flip's outer screen shows notifications while folded.
- Crease— Galaxy Z Fold's inner screen shows a line where it folds.
- Curved screen— Galaxy S6 Edge wrapped its screen over both sides.
- D-pad— Nokia N95 and BlackBerry Pearl navigated with a five-way key.
- Dynamic Island— iPhone 14 Pro turned the notch into a shape-shifting pill.
- Earpiece— iPhone's slot above the screen you hold to your ear.
- Hinge— Galaxy Z Fold and Z Flip fold on it.
- IR blaster— Galaxy S4 to S6 worked as a TV remote through it.
- Keypad— Nokia N95 and the E-series smartphones kept number keys.
- Kickstand— HTC Evo 4G shipped with a fold-out kickstand in 2010.
- Notch— iPhone X introduced it in 2017 and iPhone 14 Pro retired it.
- Notification LED— Nexus One blinked a tiny light for new messages.
- Physical keyboard— BlackBerry Bold's QWERTY keys, still on the KEY2 in 2018.
- Pop-up camera— OnePlus 7 Pro's selfie camera rose out of the top edge.
- Port flap— Galaxy S5's rubber flap kept its USB port waterproof.
- Punch hole— Galaxy S10 cut a hole in the screen for the selfie camera.
- Screws— iPhone 4 onward has two pentalobe screws beside the port.
- SD card slot— Galaxy S7 and most Androids before 2020 took a microSD.
- Soft keys— Galaxy S7's back and recents keys below the screen.
- Under-display camera— Galaxy Z Fold 3 hid its inner selfie camera beneath the screen.
30 ptsSchooler12 answers
A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.
- Back cover
- Buttons
- Fingerprint sensor
- Flash
- Frame
- Front camera
- Headphone jack
- Logo
- Microphone
- Mute switch
- SIM tray
- Stylus
10 ptsPlankton7 answers
The most common answer on the board.
- Camera
- Charging port
- Home button
- Power button
- Screen
- Speaker
- Volume buttons