The Galaxy A80 with its rotating camera module

The last five years have put smartphones on a diet, making them slimmer and faster, and then they were put on different diet fads, making them, well, slimmer and faster! Yet, it’s not yet time to write off smartphones as boring, thanks to new technologies, especially the way a device’s cameras and sensors work.

Since we keep demanding something “different”, most phone manufacturers have decided to go with pop-up cameras this year, which means thinner-to-almost-zero bezels, more screen real estate and a bigger battery, allowing a better viewing experience while watching movies over longer hours. Realme to Vivo to Oppo to Xiaomi have been there and done that. What next?