How is it that Google, the patron saint of massive, metallic camera bumps, can come out with virtually one of the only fully flat-backed smartphones? How is that possible? And yet here it is, the Google Pixel 10a. Now hold on, for all those claiming that the Pixel 9a was flat, too, I beg to differ. There was a raised lip around the camera array. On the $499 / £490 / AU$849 Pixel 10a, it’s gone.
This may seem like a small thing, especially in an Android phone that in many ways offers less, but it reminds me of where I once thought all smartphones were heading, into a world of perfectly flat glass and metal slabs. Then everyone from Apple to Samsung, to OnePlus, to Honor, and of course Google started raising the bar…er…camera array.
