I'm back after another phone swap, lmao. Unluckiest P7P owner in Singapore? Anyway, turns out, the telephoto camera can be broken, and it is super obvious. Pics below. If you want to test this, open the stock camera app and zoom to about 4.5x. It should be pretty sharp. Zoom in a bit more to 5x zoom and it should switch over to the telephoto lens. If it looks anything like the second picture in the viewfinder, CTDI is at Aperia
And yes, my lens was clean, autofocus didn't work at all, etc etc. The CTDI people were very nice as usual and gave me no fuss whatsoever since they compared my phone to a known good phone they had and verified the issue.
My only consolation is that I probably cost Google more than what I paid for the phone at this point.
Happiest party? Definitely Whitestone Dome. Who the heck buys three protectors for a phone? This guy!
Anyway I love the phone, frequent trips to CTDI aside. Lucky I spotted this issue today. Third time's the charm right?