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genuinely dont understand the logic behind having that many cameras. Surely it would just be better to have a singular better sensor, and some additional hardware for it?
I believe the extra cameras are fixed optical zoom. The physical limitations of the phones dimensions means you can't have 1x-10x zoom, because the lens would need to move forward and backward like on a real camera lens. So you've got a 1x, 3x, 10x, fish-eye, etc.
Edit: I should add that Motorola came out with a hardware attached camera by Zeiss. It was okay, but now I had to keep up with a bag that held all my attachments.
My suspicion is that the main purpose behind the multiple rear cameras is mostly to more easily create depth mapping and improved accuracy location metadata.
As someone with a 3+1 camera phone who likes taking photos, it's a huge improvement over a single lens. I wouldn't buy a single lens phone again.