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[–] mr_tyler_durden@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People get work up about this but we’ve already crossed the rubicon once the bump was large enough that it couldn’t sit “flat”, even with a case. At this point I don’t care, take up the whole back of the phone if you want.

The bump annoyed me when it was first announced but I’ll choose better pictures over caring about the bump.

[–] FoxBJK@midwest.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No. I don’t care about it sitting flat, it’s more that these designs just assume you’ll throw a case on it. The bump hasn’t stopped being annoying at any point. Bigger is not going to be better, it’s just going to exaggerate this problem.

[–] Dark_Blade@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, what annoys me is that phones these days are designed to sit in cases that the manufacturer doesn’t even provide. Makes the device feel…incomplete, somehow.

[–] lycanrising@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] TheTechNerd@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

It is a camera that has a phone attached to it

[–] KryptonDeer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For me, the phone experience will always come first before camera quality since even mid-range phones produce respectable pictures these days.

I will not purchase a 6.7"+ phone with huge camera bump that can't sit flat on table. Last week I tried my friend's Xiaomi 13 Ultra and that camera bump was eating into my hand..

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Like it as not, however, camera quality is a huge selling point for a lot of people in the market for a new phone, and it's one of the few "measurable gains" that can still be shown off with each upgrade cycle now that most other smartphone features have capped out or gotten a lot more incremental.

[–] FiendishFork@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like Googles design language for their pixels, instead of a giant bump they made it into a visor.

[–] Dark_Blade@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Apple does this to keep the lenses equidistant and close together, I assume. It definitely looks ugly, but it’s a usability compromise that had to be made.

[–] tahoe@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And yet photos will still look just as over processed, if not more.

[–] antiabed@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

iOS 17 supposedly fixes that.

[–] tahoe@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I highly doubt it considering the whole industry is doing it (although iPhones are way worse than some others), but I'd like to be surprised