It seems the phone industry may be working towards thinner and thinner camera phones. Earlier this year Samsung launched its thinnest-ever phone, the 5.8mm-thin Galaxy S25 Edge, and Apple is rumoured to have an equally svelte iPhone 17 Air in the works. Then there's the expected rise of the foldable phone. These require each section of the phone to be as thin as possible to keep the folded profile from being too chunky. When it comes to foldables, going thinner therefore makes sense, but I can see few benefits to making a conventional camera phone wafer-thin. Conversely, there are many downsides.
