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?
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?
I use my front facing camera to see under things all the time. It’s very useful, even though I don’t take selfies. I’m an engineer though so I probably spend more time looking under things than most.
How do you check for stuff in your teeth tho
If we’re lucky, someone might eventually invent some sort of reflective wall we can look at
Personally I don’t always carry a mirror but snark noted
Alexa, what is a mirror?
A mirror is a thing I don’t always have in my pocket. My phone, however…
ITT: people who are never more than 2’ from a mirror, apparently. Wtf y’all live and work in fucking Versailles?
I don’t think of it as a selfie camera, I think of it as a camera for video calls.
For me it’s a giant hole in my screen that doesn’t serve any purpose.
look, if you cant figure out what to do with holes thats your problem
Instructions unclear, dick stuck in charging port
It has purpose. The billionaires use it to spy on you
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.
@Hyperreality @stebo02 no, there are extra proximity sensors for that feature.
~~Not always. More and more phones in the budget range utilize a “virtual” proximity sensor which actually uses the camera for the same function.~~
i thought that was just the gravity sensor (holding the phone vertically vs slightly tilted)
You’re thinking of the gyroscope, but no. Some phones have a dedicated proximity sensor for things like detecting if you’re in a call and have the phone up to your ear, but more and more phones (especially the budget ones) these days use a “virtual” proximity sensor which utilizes the front camera to perform the same function.
Just don’t use it, or put some sticker on it.
yea, but you’re still paying for it
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.
I’d rather not have it at all tbh.
Some banking apps are asking for live-selfies for authentication, so it’s not entirely useless.
Not sure why it bothers you so much. Any benefit you’d have by not having it is practically negated by your limited choices for phones.
Like I said, it’s a feature I never use. The selfie camera is completely pointless for me and I’d rather not have it.
This is like saying you don’t want an apartment/house with a bathtub because you don’t take baths. Most people choose based on features they want regardless if it has one feature they won’t use. It’s just not generally worth the tradeoff of limiting your options when it’s such a common feature. If you absolutely can’t use a phone with a front facing camera though, then good luck with your search (genuine, not sarcastic).
I think it’s more like putting selfie cameras in computer monitors. That would also be a completely useless feature for me.
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You could go to a cell phone repair joint and ask them to physically disconnect the camera’s data connections, or if that’s not easy (perhaps it’s soldered directly onto the motherboard) they could break the camera for you in a controlled manner. Probably wouldn’t cost much for an expert to shove a needle into exactly the right place.
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You could get a fair phone and remove the camera.
My phone, Poco F2 Pro has a motorized selfie camera, and as I barely use it it is almost as if it didn’t have one.
It is awesome to have a full display of 6.67" with no notches or punch holes of any sort.
In a similar vein, the One Plus has a selfie camera which retracts. For all intents and purposes as close as you’ll get
Which model?
I believe it’s only the 7 Pro and the 7T Pro, and I also believe they’re both no longer sold and out of support.
Unfortunately, the target market is largely one of narcissists.
Or, I actually like to take a photo of myself and my partner somewhere without having to ask someone once in a while.
