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I'll do you one better, how about the camera is not flush but recessed so it is less likely to be the thing that gets smashed?

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This. I wish it was flush - typically it's actually protruding.

I've seen one guy attach an ECG lead to the back so that he could lay the phone down without the camera part touching the surface. As a bonus you could spin the device on it.

They don't make it protruding as a design choice. There's a bunch of room needed under there in order to take the incredible photos that phones are capable these days. Google what those lens modules look like under the bump.

The choice is in the rest of the phone. Recall the context:

> if they made a phone where the camera bump is made flush by adding thickness elsewhere to match, filled with extra battery

Or smeared with hand grease

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