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Re:Some young adults disconnecting with 'dumbphones' by pjbrunet on Monday March 24, 2014 @11:30PM (#7463643)
Depends on the dumbphone.

With a smartphone you have to turn it on, swipe your password and/or unlock it somehow, then tap the camera app and then tap/press something to take a picture. And you might get an error message, "Battery too low to use flash."

My dumbphone you press-hold camera button and that's it.

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Re:Some young adults disconnecting with 'dumbphones' by superuser2 on Monday March 24, 2014 @11:32PM (#7463650)
>With a smartphone you have to turn it on, swipe your password and/or unlock it somehow, then tap the camera app and then tap/press something to take a picture. And you might get an error message, "Battery too low to use flash."

With a generic "smartphone" you do, with an iPhone you just swipe up from the bottom right corner. It's nicely sandboxed outside the lock screen - you can see the photos you just took, but to review other photos you need to enter your PIN.

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Re:Some young adults disconnecting with 'dumbphones' by leoedin on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @06:00AM (#7464858)
Newer Android phones (4.0 upwards I believe) also allow quick camera access from the lockscreen.
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Re:Some young adults disconnecting with 'dumbphones' by kalleboo on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @10:58AM (#7466231)
> My dumbphone you press-hold camera button and that's it.

Sony smartphones work the same way

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