As smartphone cameras have become more sophisticated, so, too, has the ubiquitous camera bump grown with them.
An almost iconic identifier of a smartphone, the camera bump is a somewhat unseemly hill on an otherwise flat plain of tooled metal, regardless of the handset maker.
In fact, most people, designers included, think that everything would look a whole lot better without it.
But how do you do that without sacrificing performance?
After all, smartphone cameras are already doing some pretty impressive things in a form factor so alien and different from their forebears that that fact alone is impressive.
Well, it looks like Google might have found a way because the company’s next-generation smartphones seem to have eschewed the camera bump for a cleaner look.
The Verge reports that the company will officially unveil the new phones March 19 for a March 26 street launch. They will also be relatively affordable given the competition with the entry-level model coming in at $USD 499.
In terms of the camera’s capabilities, the website states:
“The back cameras will include a 48-megapixel main shooter (down from 64 megapixels in the 8A), and a 13-megapixel ultrawide, and the phone will have a 13-megapixel selfie camera on the front, according to Android Headlines. The Pixel 9A will also apparently sport a 5,100mAh battery, up from the previous model’s 4,492 mAh.”
Since this is all rumors and speculation at this point, we have to take all of this with a grain of salt. The cool thing is that, if this works out, we might see a trend among others to eliminate the camera bump without compromising performance. The new Pixel 9A is expected to compete with the as-yet-unannounced iPhone SE.
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