The device had a 6.1mm body - thin even today - out of which stuck a tiny camera bump. It was essentially the precursor to the iPhone 6's little nub.Īpple seems to be pretty unhappy about its camera bumps, and for good reason: on the iPhone, they're not a great look, and they keep the 6 and 6S from sitting flat on a table. One of the first signs of this may not have been on a phone at all, but instead on the 2012 iPod touch. But it hasn't been until recently that thinness really seems to have begun forcing manufacturers' hands.
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It's hard to say exactly where the camera bump began to take off since we've seen them here and there for years. But instead of letting image quality go, the camera just stays the same. In the battle for thinness, the camera remains the weak point. As in, literally pushing beyond the outer wall of the phone. The problem seems to be that getting a camera that works - and works really, really well - in 2015 may simply require pushing the boundaries of smartphone design. We just needed a camera that worked.Īpple hides the bump, Samsung embraces it In 2012, we didn't need a phone pushed past the half-inch mark by a bulbous camera. They were thick and unsightly bulges on already-chunky smartphones.
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That's especially true if you look at Nokia (RIP), which made such great bumps as those on the the 808 PureView and the Lumia 1020, which are basically two faces on the Mount Rushmore of camera bulges compared to the little nubs we see today.īut Nokia's camera bumps came before their time. The camera bump, of course, is nothing new - at least not for people who have been buying super-nerdy phones over the past decade. But camera bulges are also becoming the new norm, and today's Nexuses are just the latest flagships to get on board. It's easy to write these bulges off as compromises in the new Nexuses' design - and, sure, to some degree they are.
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Turn over both of Google's new Nexus phones and you'll notice something in common: no, not the fingerprint sensors - the big cameras sticking out above them.