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.

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.

Your phone is only as thin as it's thickest point.

Kill the bump! Give me better cooling and battery life with replaceable battery.

No, but hell no

Give me a chunky phone with a week long battery

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.

Next version isn't even going to have a camera. You'll just generate the image

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. 🤦

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!"

Apple got rid of the headphone jack but not the camera bump..

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'

Yes Butt !

I like big butts and I cannot lie

honestly I don’t mind it - the grooves allow you to actually hold the fucking thing one handed without being a basketball player

The next iteration will be a cheese wedge, 1mm thin on one side and 1cm thick on the other.

It’s because most customers use cases. They know this, and so Apple can say they made it thinner, when the reality is that it’s always not that thin. Especially when you can throw a case and a mag safe battery on the back and make it even thicker than the pro model.

Stfu. Only psychos carry around a naked phone.

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.

I don't mind a camera bar (or "visor"). It's better than the stupid bump they used to use, because it's stable, and it also provides a slight angle that makes the phone a little more visible when it's laying on a desk.

What I don't like is a super thin phone that has no meaningful battery and is easy to bend. "Bend" means that dropping it results in more than just shock force.

I have no problem with functional protuberances. In fact, I wouldn't mind seeing more, such as a universal mounting connector of some sort? I don't know if I am atypical in this regard, but I like mounting my phone on things. Handlebars, car dashes, tripods, mic stands, etc. There are solutions for this, but they invariably involve something wrapping around and blocking some of the front side of the phone, which has become increasingly problematic over the years with screens pushing towards the edges. My bike holder sometimes blocks the front-facing camera needed to unlock the iPhone, for example. But if there were something on the back side that a mounting bracket could securely latch onto, none of this would be a problem.

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!