What if the Nothing phone (or some other device) would be more like a station to connect different physical components like a bigger optical lens to it. The same way a system camera works. Currently, the physical restrictions on the camera modules are the size restrictions that phones have. With external lenses, the phone wouldn’t need to have so many camera modules but could concentrate on a really good one. Kind of takes the approach that Nothing already took with Nothing Phone(1) to the next level.
Remove the cover and snap the external lens to it. The device is the brain and interchangeable components give new possibilities to it. The idea is not only about the changeable lenses, but basically, anything that takes too much room currently to be on a small device like a phone.