At the top of the phone, above the screen, there’s a horizontal slot. That’s the earpiece. Just above it (iPhone 5) or beside it (iPhone 4 or 4S), the tiny round pinhole is the front-facing camera. It’s a little bit more visible on the white iPhone than on the black one.
Its primary purpose is to let you conduct video chats using the FaceTime feature, but it’s also handy for taking self-portraits or just checking to see if you have spinach in your teeth.
Just keep in mind that it’s not nearly as good a camera as the one on the back. The front camera has no flash, isn’t as good in low light, and takes much lower-resolution shots (1.2 megapixels on the iPhone 5, only 0.3 megapixels on earlier models).
Its primary purpose is to let you conduct video chats using the FaceTime feature, but it’s also handy for taking self-portraits or just checking to see if you have spinach in your teeth.
Just keep in mind that it’s not nearly as good a camera as the one on the back. The front camera has no flash, isn’t as good in low light, and takes much lower-resolution shots (1.2 megapixels on the iPhone 5, only 0.3 megapixels on earlier models).
The camera on the back of the iPhone, meanwhile, takes very good photos indeed—8 megapixels on the iPhone 4S and 5.
On the iPhone 4 and later, a tiny LED lamp appears next to this lens. It’s the flash for the camera, the video light when you’re shooting movies, and a darned good flashlight for reading restaurant menus and theater programs in low light. (A free app like LED Light makes it quick and easy to turn the light on and off.)
On the iPhone 5, the tiny pinhole between the flash and the lens is a microphone. It’s used for recording clearer sound with video, for better noise cancellation on phone calls, and better directional sound pickup.
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