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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
The camera sensors themselves are getting bigger and bigger, and in order to get more optical zoom, you need the added physical space to physically move the lens elements within the housing. So an ever-growing camera lump is just a reality going forward IMO.
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Btw, from what I understand, there is no "optical zoom" in the traditional sense where you have stacks of lens elements moving within a housing. Instead you have 3 lenses with different focal lengths, and the "zoom" happens as it bounces from one to the other, and it's processed digitally. I think them calling it optical zoom is a bit of a marketing white lie.
Personally, the bump out doesn't bother me. Yeah it might be nice if more of the space was filled with some battery power...but in general there's always going to be a need for some physical space for lenses, and I think it's already pretty amazing what these phones can do as-is.