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This perfectly illustrates my gripes with whatever is driving the trend of these super thin phones.
First, is anyone even asking for phones to be thinner? Then there's the camera bump sticking out like a wart. And beyond that, it gets put into a bulky case anyway which negates the super thin thing entirely.
one has to wonder what the ideal thickness is, are we supposed to think it's just never thin enough? will we have phones that literally cut into the skin of your hand as you hold it and they still brag about how the new model is 4 atoms thinner?
it's not like they're getting easier to hold, modern phones are so huge that you need a popsocket for it to be reliably and comfortably held.
The iPhone 4/SE1 was the perfect design.
No real camera bump, single hand hold, light, durable with a metal back.
If we just added a modern OLED screen, and a modern chip and battery, that design would be perfect.
I actually like thin phones. I find them easier to hold, but I would gladly sacrifice the camera hump for a completely flat back.
No, but hell no
Give me a chunky phone with a week long battery
Apple: here is your phone with a weak, long battery.
Regular sex will make your day.
But anal sex will make your hole weak.
I had an Oukitel that I ran for almost 4 weeks. Had to charge it for a trip off grid. Talk about chunky!
Might buy another model, but had to drop Verizon to get it working and T-Mobile took a week to figure out how to activate it. PITA, but it was solid once working. Great BT speaker, couldn't kill the battery, everything worked great. Carrying the thing was a pain, even with a pack. Not sure I want all that mass again.
If you want a phone you can beat a man to death with, Oukitel it is!
With its ability to produce an 8D sound effect
Wow. They cracked string theory.
More seriously, does it have a 3.5mm jack?
Better yet, week long replaceable battery
Kill the bump! Give me better cooling and battery life with replaceable battery.
No.
-Apple
and battery life with replaceable battery.
You mean a $99 magsafe powerbank that only fits on this specific phone doesn't satisfy you as a replaceable battery?
/s
Next version isn't even going to have a camera. You'll just generate the image
i fucking hate tech companies
the phone will just generate shit all the time - texts, voices, images, music - all to post on AI-gen only social media. And it doesn't even need human interaction to do that but you are legally obligated to buy 12 of these per year or you will be deported to Moldova.
As somebody who extensively travelled to Moldova for the wine, food, and the parties I say, not too bad. I'll be in the first train
Your phone is only as thin as it's thickest point.
I can understand people wanting “smaller" screens cause they don't have huge hands/pockets
But slimmer phones when the cheapest ones (< 200€) already are like 8mm, I don't really get it, at this point it's just a structural weakness, like the geth would say
The only advantage would be to have a bulky phone case while still maintaining a 6 or 8 mm width, but still it wouldn't prevent your phone from bending
Do phones really need to be so skinny? Part of the reason I always get a case is not only for protection, but also to deliberately make it a little thicker.
No, they're just desperate for some kind of differentiator at this point because phones haven't meaningfully changed in five years. Hell, maybe ten.
Yeah, the only real improvements in phones over the last decade are the adoption of USB-C and the addition of extra camera lenses, and I never really use the extra lenses on my phone.
I replaced my 2016 Galaxy S7 last year with a Motorola G32 mainly because the Galaxy wasn't holding a charge or getting software updates anymore. The G32 is actually lower in spec in a few ways (lower-resolution screen, no wireless charging) but it's still more than adequate for my needs, has a headphone jack and MicroSD slot and supports LineageOS (although I haven't installed that yet.)
Even the S7 upgrade wasn't strictly necessary but I saw a good deal and didn't like the way my LG G2's volume buttons were on the back.
We're well past the point where smartphones should've been fully comodified and where we should be able to get generic versions based on common standards (i.e. a common platform open to OS developers without the need for a specialized build for each phone.)
Yeah they have. They removed a bunch of features so they can sell more dongles and cloud storage. You know, "innovation".
This has become one of the useless marketing figures everyone chases because they made it seem important in the first place.
I absolutely prefer having something a bit thicker, as it fits the palm better.
just give me a battery i don't have to tend to every fucking day or two. everyone just slaps a fat case in these flimsy ass phones anyway.
Apple got rid of the headphone jack but not the camera bump..
Not just Apple...
The next iteration will be a cheese wedge, 1mm thin on one side and 1cm thick on the other.
I'd rather have that. it'll actually stay stable when you put it down, plus the screen would be slightly tilted upwards so you can see it better when it's just there on the table.
Actually razor blade sharp. One atom thick iPhone
People slicing their hand are just holding them wrong
It's really funny to me that we're having these conversations all over again. I had the Moto Z back in 2016 and it was almost half a mm thinner than the 2025 iPhone Air. (As always, here's Apple still playing catchup, a decade later this time.)
I honestly didn't mind it - the Moto Z had a Moto Mods battery that snapped on the back (in a MUCH more elegant manner than Apple's magsafe battery implementation in my opinion) and so I always knew that was an option if the battery life became a concern over time. And I loved that the extended battery made the back of the phone perfectly flush with the camera bump too, so if you elected to add battery life, it was literally what we've all asked for the whole time: Just make it thicker and add battery. But if you didn't need extended battery life, then you had a razer thin phone (and a camera bump), probably the thinnest I had until the Fold7 at 4.2mm.
I wish that Motorola's solution had stuck, because they solved this problem already, meanwhile everybody is here reinventing the wheel over and over again in 2025. 🤦
This is why you spend much money for name brand phone protector!
Not to make phone tough..
...but so..
.. it can sit level on flat surface!
Why do phones have to be as slimmed down as a coke addicted supermodel from the 90s anyway?
I'd much prefer they shrink the fucking things enough that they fit in your pocket.
I think what people want is longer-life, user replaceable batteries. They didn't need to be thinner. Apple says, "Look! It's thinner! Thinner is better!", so the fanbois say "Look mine is better because it's thinner, Apple said so!"
I for one would love a cheaper option without a ridiculous camera. Or even no camera!
Tbh, the camera bumps are nice if you use phone cases. They allow the phone+ phone case thickness to be much thinner than otherwise. Provided they aren't enormous unexplainable bumps like the pixel phones'
honestly I don’t mind it - the grooves allow you to actually hold the fucking thing one handed without being a basketball player
Well, you cannot cheat physics. You get two of resolution, depth, and thin-ness. If they want resolution and depth, they need the optics to do this.