1.0 link Rainbow Dash Network http://rainbowdash.net/ Cerulean Spark (ceruleanspark) http://rainbowdash.net/ceruleanspark http://rainbowdash.net/notice/4125175 @<span class="vcard"><a href="http://rainbowdash.net/user/4320" class="url" title="RDN's Lucifer"><span class="fn nickname mention">nerthos</span></a></span> In this case I think it's just lazy manufacturers. They added it without really thinking it through, and have never re-evaluated their design. Plenty of other devices get it right. My firefox phone has a silent camera, my Palm pre 2 had a silent camera, and my old windows phones had a silent camera. Even the iPhone, the king of &quot;designing for the lowest common denominator&quot; has a silent camera.