Every now and then, I feel like taking a grainy, low resolution image with my N810. Just for the sake of it. So, I pull open Camera. Whenever I do this, I remember the real reason why I do it so rarely: it isn't the low quality of the images (largely remedied, I've noticed, by converting to grayscale). It is the fact that the software locks up my entire system at random, performs slowly in general, and ultimately (almost without exception) produces a lockup so severe that my device resets itself, then when I open up Application Manager (prepared to annihilate the offending application) resets itself again.
Indeed, I have exactly the same experience with Knips.
I do not seem to encounter this using a webcam in the Internet Call app.

Is this just the result of horribly built camera apps, or is it a driver problem? Does anyone else have this experience? (Could it be a hardware flaw in my device?).
And yes, this has always been the case, be it in Chinook or Diablo, with every single OS I have flashed on to there (probably about 8 at this point; I'm a major tinkerer).

On the topic of camera apps: whoever makes one next... could you please please please use the fullscreen button as a shutter button? It just makes sense

To Nokia: Hardware should be invisible, but not this invisible. It still has to work.