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Fotopedia Heritage 2.0 adds slideshow, shuffle and wallpapers

By: , IntoMobile
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010 at 12:16 AM

Fotonauts, makers of Fotopedia.com, announced new version of its Fotopedia Heritage mobile app for the iOS-powered devices. Version 2.0 packs few cool features, including:

  • Slideshow – feature that effectively transforms the iPad, iPod Touch or iPhone into a photo frame.
  • Shuffle – Simple shake the device to access a random photo (destination).
  • Wallpaper – Now you can use images featured in Fotopedia Heritage as wallpapers for your iDevice.
  • iOS 4 update – adds multi-tasking and Retina display support.

The core of the app remains the same, offering more than 25,000 awe-inspiring photos with more being added on a daily basis.

In addition to the new app version, Fotonauts also announced a new financing round of $1.1 million from investors including Ignition Partners and Banexi Ventures Partners. The new money will be used to bring new products to market and to “secure top-level leadership talent.” In that sense, the company opened an office in San Francisco and appointed Christophe Daligault, a Microsoft veteran and former General Manager, to the position of Senior Vice President of Global Business…

Fotopedia (FREE) [iTunes link]

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Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.