LG phone with 16 cameras at works

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In the beginning, there were phones without cameras. Now, we have phones with two, three, and most recently four main cameras. This trend of adding more and more lenses is slowly, but surely, inching us closer to a future when people with trypophobia won't be able to look at the back of their phone. Also, don't Google trypophobia if you don't know what it is.

Rumors of a Nokia device with five cameras have been floating around for quite a while, and if it seems excessive to you at first, wait till you hear about LG's latest patent, which more than triples that number. We are talking about 16 cameras here. Sixteen. On a smartphone.

A new patent, granted to LG by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) earlier this week and discovered by LetsGoDigital, involves a smartphone with a main camera setup that consists of 16 lenses with varying focal lengths and characteristics. And though this may seem like one too many, the patent actually goes over some pretty exciting stuff that could be achieved with this number of cameras.