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  On the back, you get a single giant camera, a time-of-flight sensor, and an LED flash. That's it. [credit: Sharp ]

Is filling the back of a smartphone with several small camera lenses really the best camera solution? Sharp is bucking the multi-camera trend with the Aquos R6 , a phone with—get this—a single massive camera on the back. Sharp is skipping all the wide-angle zoom lenses out there and going with a giant 1-inch camera sensor instead. This is either the single biggest smartphone camera sensor ever or it's tied for the largest ever, depending on how you categorize 2014's Panasonic Lumix CM1 , which isn't so much a "phone" as it is a point-and-shoot camera that runs Android and can make phone calls.

Sharp is not talking about its camera sensor supplier, but there's a good chance the part is from fellow Japanese company Sony, which has had a 1-inch "IMX800" sensor circulating around the rumor mill for some time. Sony is the leading smartphone camera sensor manufacturer, so don't be surprised to see a few more 1-inch sensor phones this year. The rest of the specs look pretty good, too. The phone comes with Android 11, a Snapdragon 888 SoC, 12GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, a 5000 mAh battery, a microSD slot, a headphone jack, and a USB-C port.

The display is a Sharp-made OLED with a whopping 240 Hz refresh rate. Sharp has made 240 Hz displays before, but it says this one is the "world's first" display to have a dynamic refresh rate that goes from 1 Hz to 240 Hz, depending on the content.