• Fun Fact: Your Headphone Remote Works As A Camera Shutter Button in iOS 5

    Tuesday, June 14th, 2011

    Greg Kumparak is the Mobile Editor at Techcrunch. Greg has been writing for the TechCrunch network since May of 2008. Greg was born just outside of San Jose, and now lives in the East Bay of California. → Learn More

    When Apple was showing off iOS 5′s myriad new features, they mentioned one neat little trick that the camera app had up its sleeve: you could now fire off pictures with the device’s volume up button.

    You know what else has a volume up button? Your iPhone headphones. Surely, there’s some technical reason why the volume up button on your headphones wouldn’t …. wait, it works? IT WORKS?! Get ready to get your James-Bond on, folks. Or, as Cult Of Mac points out, you can stick your iPhone on a table, using the remote to take the clearest, most wobble-free pictures ever.

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