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If you're willing to compromise on your thicker battery, you can just get a case.

My pixel 9 is essentially flat, and the battery life is plenty for a couple of days.

Their point is about battery life, and that a thicker phone is the compromise they're willing to make. They don't want a thicker phone just for the heck of it.

I think they are talking about a battery phone case somewhat like the Alpatronix Battery Case (if you want to look around - I just found one at random.)

That's probably going to provide a lot less battery than just increasing the phone thickness, wouldn't it? There's a lot of redundant layers of encapsulation in that approach.

I actually understand his comment to be primarily about wanting a thicker phone such that there is no camera bump. The possibility of a bigger battery is then a secondary benefit.

Either way, my point is that with a case the pixel 9 is mostly flat, and has a battery life that I can't complain about. How big the battery is physically is unimportant to me. Logically it's big enough.

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