[vintagedave]

> carrying a dedicated camera, a power bank, and using wired peripherals

I'm a small-phone person, and I don't think these _should_ be necessary. I'm fine with wired peripherals (and prefer them), but in 2025, with efficient chips, I don't see why we can't power a device much longer than 24 hours. What if it had decade-old hardware, and -- this is the bit I think is the problem -- the operating system and apps were efficient?

Same with a camera. It seems more about thickness than width; I don't believe it should be impossible to put a large-phone-format camera in a smaller phone. It may take battery space, but see above, we should be ok there these days.

[volemo]

> but in 2025, with efficient chips, I don't see why we can't power a device much longer than 24 hours.

That is only possible if we don't write the software with dozen layers of abstraction and gimmicky features (looking at you, Liquid Glass!).

[ChrisRR]

The biggest power drain is still the screen and those haven't really improved that much.