Why aren't smartphone rear cameras located at the center of the phone?

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  Anoop Kumar

  My vote would go to how we hold Smartphone.
  
  This is how we hold the phone. If camera will be in center, sturdiness would be less while taking photos.
  
  
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  @#-Link-Snipped-# - That's the position you'd normally have when using the front camera - during video conferencing or video calls. But when most people use the rear camera, they hold the phone in the landscape mode with both the hands.
  
  
  
  I think that's the most common position for holding the phone when using rear camera. Of course, in the regular, vertical mode; your fingers may cover the phone - but I believe that isn't much of a problem. Woud look forward to more suggestions. I'm curious to know whether placing the cameras at the center of the phone is practical?
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  Sarathkumar Chandrasekaran

  My Perception:
  It would be more convenient for the placement of camera module at the top end and it would help in minimizing the thickness of the phone because if the camera is placed in the center it would increase the overall thickness as it should co exist behind the display(touch screen or ordinary lcd screen)
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  Saandeep Sreerambatla

  SarathKumar Chandrasekaran

  My Perception:
  It would be more convenient for the placement of camera module at the top end and it would help in minimizing the thickness of the phone because if the camera is placed in the center it would increase the overall thickness as it should co exist behind the display(touch screen or ordinary lcd screen)

  Why should it co-exist behind the display?
  how will it minimize the thickness if its placed at the rare end? and not in center?
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  Saandeep Sreerambatla

  As far as I think they do it for battery placement. In most of the phones the size of the battery is larger and the shape is also in such a way that it need some specific place on the phone.
  
  So I dont think there is a reason apart from ease of the battery placement.
  That my opinion though..