“For better cameras” like… I don’t see it. Back in the mid 2010s and late 2010s before the bump trend iPhone, Google and Samsung had the best phone cameras, and both were flat and with decent digital zoom and stability (for a phone). If you look at the photo samples for back then and compare it with now the difference is almost imperceptible.
That ugly bump makes big phones even harder to use and weight more now, plus if you’re one of those who never liked using a cover now I bet you’re forced to use one because of the added vulnerability of the bump.
Edit mid 2010s to late 2010s (until the camera bump appears around 2018)
I just want a phone with an 1080p camera so I don’t have to pay $800 for a phone. The only thing the camera is useful for is scanning QR codes anyway.
there are tons of $50 smart phones out there these days.
But they have shitty specs and are too slow.
My guess is that they want a cheaper and faster phone but with poor cameras because they don’t use it for photos
nobody is going to make a top end phone without a good camera. that’s not how product design works.
Yeah, this is what I want. I would be completely fine with a high-spec low-feature phone. No front camera, no gyroscope, no fingerprint sensor. Good enough to run games on or handle smaller LLMs for offline translation and speech-to-text.
I couldn’t care less about the camera because I don’t use social media, and prefer experiencing things without recording everything.
So, a portable gaming device that happens to also make phone calls?
Well, more like a portable mini-computer that has a simcard.