When I take a photo (so rarely) with my point and shoot camera, or with my DSLR (even more rarely), usually the photos are taken right-side-up or just sideways because a point and shoot or DSLR has a button on top.
When I take a photo (almost always) with a smartphone, usually the photos are never right-side-up because a smartphone has a button on screen that moves as the hardware is rotated.
Droid1 has a hardware button for the camera on one side (Droid3 lost the button), and the iPhone4s can use the volume button for the camera, but I rarely use those buttons. I pickup a smartphone, turn it on, open the camera app, and take a photo from any every which way.
Then I post these photos, from a Droid or iPhone, to Flickr, to Facebook, to Twitter, and, frustrated sigh, the photo is posted upside down or sideways.
So I go to the app or the web site, on my smartphone, and there’s never ever a feature option to rotate the photo. (STILL AFTER ALL THESE YEARS OF MOBILE APPS!)
Then I go to the “full standard” web site for twitter, facebook, flickr, etc, and navigate it on my smartphone to rotate the photo. This takes a while. Flickr, in particular, has memory loss and asks me to login repeatedly. Facebook doesn’t always recognize my finger taps.
Any mobile or smartphone app with photos, simply because it is for smartphone use, and because smartphones are easily spun around in our hands, should have a rotate button.
Please.
