As a photography enthusiast, I have spent the last few years carrying around what essentially amounts to a professional-grade camera with a smartphone attached to the back.
From the massive visors on recent Pixels to the dinner-plate-sized unit of a camera on the vivo X300 Pro, there’s an unstated understanding that a premium smartphone experience requires an enormous camera and an equally massive physical sacrifice. It’s something I’ve begrudgingly gotten used to, but have never really been happy with. Then I spent a week with the Pixel 10a.
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