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Navigation is pretty handy, but the thing I really love about a smartphone is having a decent portable camera always with me. To quickly take a snap to share wi

by tjpick 12y ago

Navigation is pretty handy, but the thing I really love about a smartphone is having a decent portable camera always with me. To quickly take a snap to share with family (mms, email or social media), when you otherwise would have missed that is pretty cool.

pjbrunet 12y ago
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.
- superuser2 12y ago
  >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.
  - leoedin 12y ago
    Newer Android phones (4.0 upwards I believe) also allow quick camera access from the lockscreen.
- kalleboo 12y ago
  > My dumbphone you press-hold camera button and that's it. Sony smartphones work the same way
keithpeter 12y ago
'Opportunistic technology' has applications in the classroom. I have an old OS Blackberry Bold and I use the camera in class to photo student work and email it to a webmail account in-lesson then pop it on projector. I also use music player with 3.5mm lead to play podcasts &c. Fairly quick to use. Students encouraged to photo screens/whiteboards and email them in &c. As a more mature (cough) person, I make limited personal use of social media and tend not to have very high traffic. The 'smartish' aspect is all data collection.

by tjpick 12y ago

pjbrunet 12y ago

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.

superuser2 12y ago
>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.
- leoedin 12y ago
  Newer Android phones (4.0 upwards I believe) also allow quick camera access from the lockscreen.
kalleboo 12y ago
> My dumbphone you press-hold camera button and that's it. Sony smartphones work the same way

keithpeter 12y ago

'Opportunistic technology' has applications in the classroom. I have an old OS Blackberry Bold and I use the camera in class to photo student work and email it to a webmail account in-lesson then pop it on projector. I also use music player with 3.5mm lead to play podcasts &c. Fairly quick to use. Students encouraged to photo screens/whiteboards and email them in &c. As a more mature (cough) person, I make limited personal use of social media and tend not to have very high traffic. The 'smartish' aspect is all data collection.