Is there any way to recover photos if you didn't back up using iTunes or Photostream?

I'm really really hoping there is a way around this...
I tried to update my iPhone 4S to the iOS6 operating system and when it restarted it went into recovery mode. I've only had this phone for a few months but never turned on Photostream (never knew you had to manually go in and turn it on for it to update to the icloud) or synced it with iTunes since I use my phone mostly for work. I just had a baby 2 weeks ago and while I was in the hospital I took photos with my iPhone. Now Apple is telling me the only way to get my phone on again and working properly is to restore it in iTunes on my PC, but I'll have lost all the photos I took. I've contacted their support twice about it and keep getting the, sorry you're SOL. I'm pretty devastated and even though I emailed some of the photos to family, I won't have all of them and I'm very very upset that Apple wouldn't have some sort of prompt to back it up BEFORE this happens. It seems I'm not the only one who has had this unfortunate situation happen to them based on what I've read. The most irritating part is I've done two other software updates with this phone in the past and had no issues until this half-baked system update. Is there anything else you can do to either recover the photos or get the phone out of the recovery mode without restoring? It's still under the 1 year warranty, but Apple says there is nothing that can be done to recover the photos.

WIll the window software Wondershare Dr.Fone not recover the photos from the phone if you download or upload it to iTunes? It states it does?

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