The correct answer. The camera bump is intentional and so is building phones that aren't resilient to drops out of the box. What do you mean I can't have a phone with rubber bumpers on the corners?

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thiht 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> phones that aren't resilient to drops out of the box

What year is it, 2012?

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Zircom 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There used to be an "Active" line of Galaxy phones that had built in umpers before they discontinued them.

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skydhash 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I have my iPhone 13 in a $10 cover for years now. I don’t like the bump, but I don’t think it’s a scheme to buy covers.

Also my favorite smartphone was a motorola with a cloth back (ballistic something) and a metal frame. No cover was needed for this one.

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encom an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

>resilient to drops

I would be content if they'd stop making phones slippier than a wet bar of soap. My Pixel 8a is ridiculous, I don't know how they do it. If you have dry hands, it's nearly impossible to hold on to.

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saltcured an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah, I added a boring case on day 1 and would have trouble describing the feel of the bare device right now.

Found one on Amazon so I dodge Google's exorbitant plastic markup, and it is a relatively minimalist wrap that smooths out the camera bump and makes it more grippy in hand, in pockets, and on flat surfaces.

The behavior of those slippery phones in pockets is almost the bigger gripe to me. Like they are a new class of motion amplifier, trying to rotate and squirt their way out at the slightest twitch.

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PcChip an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

like the apple tv remote.. plus those are so sensitive too

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		Google Chromecast remote is bad, too. The curvature on the back of those is such that it's harder to rotate into a position so the thumb can hit the right button than a flat surface would be. It also means that resting it on the arm of a recliner produces about the same result as just dropping it into the void to begin with: It's going to wind up there either way.