Of course, smartphones haven't been innovative for a few years now. As far as Google's algorithms, machine learning, image processing, etc, I still believe that's far better than the competition. Now, are those things innovative ? Well, it could be viewed as that, but that is something that Google does differently versus the competition. For example, they were the first smartphone company to introduce nightshot mode in the camera application. Then everyone else copied them. Now, of course Samsung and Apple have great night shot modes as well, but that came from Google's idea. For example, for the Galaxy s 20 ultra phone, it comes with a 101 megapixel camera. Do people really need a 101 megapixel camera? It's for bragging rights. Are you going to zoom in that much into a shot just to say you can. You'll probably do it once and then never do it again.