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The volume up button doubles as a hardware camera button.

• JohnsonB 14y ago
  No, I mean't like Windows Phone, the camera button takes a picture automatically regardless of the app your in.
  • oemera 14y ago
    There is no phone which has everything you need. Everyone has different aspects of things. Maybe the iPhone doesn't fit you. Why don't you buy an WP7/8 if it has those features? I don't understand what this discussing is helping. It doesn't have one and I'm pretty sure it will never have a dedicated button. I can understand why Apple is not going the way others are going. This is a phone not a dedicated camera, so why would you mix these things? I know the camera these days are pretty good and a lot of people are using only their phones to point-and-shot but I think it would and it is (on different phones) feels wrong to have dedicated button for camera. This is all my opinion. Others do different views but this mine. I respect every other view.
• jlgreco 14y ago
  In android, at least on my phone, dedicated camera buttons will take you to the camera application whenever you press them. It is quite nice, honestly I never bothered figuring out how to take a picture with it otherwise. In iOS I assume the UI is sufficiently less dreadful that this is not as necessary.
  • alphang 14y ago
    Not that this is a real solution, but you can lock and swipe up. Two motions instead of one.