Perhaps the most irritating thing about the F1's camera experience is the lack of a shortcut to
open the camera app from the lock screen.
However, the company can make this flick action to automatically answer the phone call or
open the camera app in selfie mode which can make it a bit convenient.
It offers contextual awareness, so you can do things
like open the camera app with one squeeze, and then snap a picture with a second squeeze.
There is a feature on this device that would allow you to instantly
open the camera app by double clicking on the volume up or down button.
The camera stuff is easy and fun: I just
open the camera app on my phone and the watch buzzes on my wrist and turns itself into a big handy shutter button.
According to Android Authority, some users have received a message saying «Fatal camera error»
when opening the camera app for the first time, however, those who had the issue state a factory reset solves the problem.
Shooting with the Axon is made easier by the fact there's a physical shutter release button on the side, which also
quickly opens the camera app when double - pressed.
The left side has volume up / down buttons and another button that serves a dual purpose: Tap it
for opening the camera app (or for snapping a pic) or hold it to launch Firefly.
Lenovo included both front - and rear - facing cameras because I suppose they had to, but a 2MP and 5MP respectively, it's not even
worth opening the camera app.
By default, each time the
user opens the Camera app, the camera is set up to use the Normal shooting mode and Auto scene mode.
First, that weird quirk in iOS 9
where opening the camera app would pause your music is gone (though the music will still pause during video recording).
To find out if there is a difference between the iPhone and S8 in this area, we a set up a separate camera to record at 240 fps and then timed how long it took each phone to
launch open its camera app and focus on a subject
Double - tapping the power
button opens the camera app, even if the S8 is locked; that takes a split - second, as does snapping an image or hitting the video record button.
With «Jump to Camera,» you can simply double - click your power button to
open the camera app at any time — even when the screen is off.
You'll even find some excellent Android Wear integration that buzzes your watch with a remote shutter option immediately
upon opening the camera app on the phone.
The most important factor, you can quickly
open the camera app into the shooting mode, just double tap the volume down button on the rear side, it isn't as quick as double tapping home button on Samsung Galaxy S7, but it's quite fast.
After opening the camera app, I could zoom in 2x by just tapping a button on screen; then I could press and hold the same button and drag my finger to the right to zoom up to 10x.
Dell's slate provided solid real - world performance, as we were able to
open the Camera app in a zippy 0.81 seconds and return to the home screen in an even faster 0.67 seconds.
If your friends are running iOS 11 on their iPhones (as they should be), just ask them to
open the Camera app on their iPhone and point the camera to the QR code.
Microsoft also added the ability to
open the Camera app directly from the Surface 2's lock screen by swiping down from the top of the display.
It piggybacks on the Google Assistant, adding a total of 32 voice commands to the V30S for tasks
like opening the camera app, snapping a food photo, and taking a selfie.
There are three ways — drag the camera icon on lock screen, or tap and hold the camera shutter button for a second on active screen, or directly
open the camera app from the icon tray in the bottom.
Now, you can
just open your camera app, tap a couple buttons, then Bixby Vision will automatically translate any foreign text it sees in real - time.
The S8 lags behind the iPhone 7 in
simply opening the camera app, but Samsung's phone almost instantly locked onto its subject, resulting in a total open and focus time of 0.97 seconds.
If this isn't cool enough, you can even ask the Moto X to capture a selfie, and it would
automatically open the camera app, switch to front camera and start a countdown to capture the selfie.
One really handy feature on the new Nexus devices is the ability to double - tap on the power button to
quickly open the camera app, something that even the Nexus 6 doesn't have with Marshmallow.
You'll be able to use this to
open the camera app, write a text using your voice, take a screenshot, turn on the flashlight, open Google Assistant or Alexa, activate any app on the phone, and so on, mapping whatever you want to a long press and a short press.
It took about 3 seconds to
open the Camera app.
The best way to get to it is to use a free app called ES File Explorer to
open the camera app.
You can install apps from the Amazon appstore, such as Picshop Lite,
that open the camera app in a roundabout way, but there's no specific camera app accessible from the Fire HD's app list.
And it's annoying that when
we open the camera app, the arrow signifying the mode is never aligned underneath Photo, but somewhere in - between it and Portrait.
Q Link manages the third button on the watch, which can activate a set function on your phone, such as answering a call, adjusting the volume, or
opening the camera app.
To do this in Android 4.4.x KitKat,
open the Camera app and tap the round circle to the right of the shutter button, and from the resulting menu, tap the «Settings» icon.
Working in a similar way to Google Goggles or the Amazon shopping app you can either ask Bixby what something is, or
open the camera app and hit the Bixby Vision button.