Did you know: these were the best phones five years ago (2010)

What did smartphones look five years ago? What were the best smartphones available five years ago, and how did they look?

These were the questions we asked ourselves, as we contemplated on the fact that these days it seems more and more like Android devices are increasingly becoming very similar to each other and the pace of progress has slowed down, or at least does not manifest itself in the great leaps that we were used to seeing in previous years.