A physical button on a smartphone that snaps a photo. Many people find a dedicated button more comfortable than tapping the button icon on screen. For years, various Android models have used a Volume ...

MILLIONS of newer iPhone models have a special camera button on the side that’s loaded with tricks. If you’ve ever pressed it ...

The touch-sensitive Camera Control button on recent iPhones looks simple, but it is effectively a hardware shortcut into some ...

Almost everything is easy to do on a smartphone these days. Until I want to take a picture. Suddenly, I’m juggling my iPhone to unlock the device—my fingers are fumbling around for the right ...

Despite Apple’s best efforts to market the iPhone 16‘s new camera button as its innovation, this isn’t quite the case. Yes, Apple’s implementation and tech behind the button’s functionality is novel, ...

Apple added the Camera Control button to its phones starting with the iPhone 16, but since I never really spent much time with that model, my first exposure to this new button came when I recently ...

With the launch of the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro, Tim Cook and his team have introduced a new hardware feature that will benefit the millions of users looking to buy the new iOS smartphones. And ...

Camera Control has the unenviable task of providing a lot of camera functionality with minimal physical real estate. Most importantly, it has to do so in a location that feels good in the hand.

The iPhone 16 is not the only recently released smartphone with a separate camera control system, as the Oppo Find X8 Pro also has a similar alternate way to interact with the camera on the side of ...

OPPO has revealed that the Find X8 series of phones indeed offers a camera shutter button. The button also supports swipe gestures to zoom, much like Apple’s Camera Control key. Apple announced the ...

David Lumb is a senior reporter covering mobile and gaming spaces. Over the last decade, he's reviewed phones for TechRadar as well as covered tech, gaming, and culture for Engadget, Popular Mechanics ...

Honor’s latest mid-range smartphone is the Honor 400 Lite, and it has a new “AI Camera Button” that can launch Google Lens. New buttons are an increasing trend in smartphones as of late, and Honor is ...