Windows Phone 7 Has A Camera Button Too

I guess dedicated camera shutter buttons are a bigger deal than it seems. Joe Belfiore remarked yesterday how flattered he felt about the iOS 5 taking cues from certain Windows Phone 7 features, and it seems that he has also tweeted about Windows Phone 7’s camera button, which apparently has been on all WP7 devices for the past 8 months.

As we all know iOS 5 has decided to update their native camera app by installing guide lines to help align photos, included some editing features and more importantly added a physical camera button by linking the shutter button to the volume up button on the phone. Granted probably not the most realistic shutter button feel one could expect but I guess it’s an improvement and it’s one of the features that many iOS users were hoping to see.

Judging from Joe Belfiore’s tweet, it does seem that the WP7’s camera button is more useful which allows for quicker photo snapping, while iOS requires users to double press the home button in the lock screen to access the camera mode. Hopefully in the future we will able to change the settings and allow direct access to the camera even without having to go through the lock screen first, but until then it does look like WP7 has the edge, for now.