First things first, we use our S Pens to jot down a few notes about camera bumps. If you like your glass to have glass sticking out of it, the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra is the phone for you.

That sprawling triple-lens bump in the iPhone 11 Pro Max now seems like the height of restraint. We are officially sorry for all our complaints.

While many smartphone components keep improving while shrinking in size, cameras tend to do the opposite—partly because of hard limits in optics, where capturing better images usually requires bigger sensors and more lenses.

Google may be the smartphone maker to most convincingly buck this trend, by doing more with less—replacing physical hardware with bleeding-edge software whizbangery. Samsung's approach here is pretty cool, but we'll be keeping our peepers open for the Pixel 5.