I would never have thought nobody cares about these features anymore?? I've always kept all my photos, music, contacts and docs on my sd card due to the fact that when i get a new phone I just pop the card out and plop it in the new one and everything is there, not to mention if the phone has a compete failure I lose nothing. Always thought this was a huge drawback to the iPhone, you had to constantly back these things up with iTunes... The battery, I/we vacation a lot and always have a spare for those days when I'm using GPS, photo sharing, streaming music and video and so on which drains the battery quicker then normal, instead of needing to find a outlet/charger I just swap out batteries a keep moving..
Just didn't realize I've become so old school already lol..
Even if put those two no longer needed/cared about features aside, still doesn't make sense they'd put so much into developing these 2 new "flagships" if they are gradually pulling out of the smartphone game?? I'll take it a step further, I hear the shots at the "mythical" Surface phone but I can honestly see a Surface phone in the future with a stylus of course to complete The Surface line; Surface Pro tablet, Surface Book & Surface Phone.. No??