I have never taken a selfie in my entire life. The feature is entirely pointless for me. Are there any smartphones that don’t have a front facing camera?

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I don’t think of it as a selfie camera, I think of it as a camera for video calls.

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For me it’s a giant hole in my screen that doesn’t serve any purpose.

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look, if you cant figure out what to do with holes thats your problem

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Instructions unclear, dick stuck in charging port

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It has purpose. The billionaires use it to spy on you

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It’s often also used to detect if you’re holding it to your ear, which allows the phone to switch off the screen when you’re in a call.

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No mass market phone will come without selfie camera. And any special purpose phones will be too expensive. Maybe just buy one without notch and put a tape on it?

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Just don’t use it, or put some sticker on it.

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yea, but you’re still paying for it

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You’re not. You’re getting it as a free bonus to the personal pocket computer that also has all the phone functions and some more.

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I’d rather not have it at all tbh.

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Not exactly the same but I bought a used OnePlus 7 Pro when they started cutting holes in my display.

It has a pop up selfie camera so you can a) see when it is active and b) don’t have any notches on your screen.

Also makes for a great party gag.

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I miss my OnePlus 7 Pro for this and for just being an all around amazing phone. It’s a shame OnePlus didn’t continue with that pop up selfie cam on their devices.

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I wish the popup feature went mainstream, I too dislike a peephole in my screen.

I wonder if they didn’t catch on because it made spying on people more difficult.

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I assume most people don’t care about a notch for the front facing camera so OnePlus didn’t continue it since it adds complexity.

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You are most likely correct, it’s a mechanism that can fail. Apple normalised notches and people buy them no matter what, so the others follow.

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I’m typing this on my Xiaomi Mi9T which also has a popup camera. This phone is on its last legs, I’m not looking forward to having to get a new one with a typical selfie camera. A popup camera just makes so much more sense.

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Maybe get one used? I replaced the battery and backplate on mine and it’s like new.

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How about the Asus Zenfone 7 Pro it had a flip around camera which made the normal camera the selfie cam aswell. Or maybe the Xiaomi Mi 9T not really without a front camera but it had a pop up camera so you won’t see it when you don’t use it.

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They look pretty interesting, but they were released 3-4 years ago. Is there anything more recent?

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@between2boobies
@pm_me_your_trash
I am currently using the Xiaomi Mi 9T for the exact reason that it was one of the last phones to not have a hole in the display for the camera.
Yes, Xiaomi stopped giving it software updates, but you can install Lineage OS if you want to upgrade to newer Android versions.
Apart from that the phone still runs very smooth with everyday use and there is not much I am missing.

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