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?

  • DessertStorms@kbin.social
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    I was actually looking for the same thing - having a camera constantly pointing at me gives me anxiety (to the point where I’ve perfected the “cover hold” where I always have part of my thumb covering it), but gave up when I realised the compromises on other features I would need to make in order to get a phone without one (in the case of the Poco F2 Pro - an IP rating).

    So I bought a “regular” phone and I’m now instead waiting for a delivery of some vinyl camera cover stickers, you can get them pretty cheap online (if you want to avoid amazon you might need to look a little harder, but they are available). My only concern is the other sensors in the camera notch that might be impacted (the always on display thinking the phone is in bag/facing down and not displaying for example), but am hoping I can find workarounds for those issues.

    Privacy in general isn’t something phone manufacturers are going to be catering for since they make a ton of their money selling data and/or access to it, so it’d be counterproductive in their eyes.

    Which I know isn’t really what you were asking, but I thought I’d let you know in case you came to a similar conclusion as 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.