It haven’t took long for Nokia to dump the “BETA” status from the latest version of Nokia Photos. The official version 1.5 is now available for download, ready to compete head-to-head with likes of Google Picassa.
Although the application doesn’t require a Nokia handset to work (you can import photos from a digital camera, memory cards/sticks, other mobile phones), it will work best with Nokia Symbian S60-based smartphones. That being said, NSeries owners can take advantage of advanced Nokia Photos features and for instance convert videos on-the-fly to the right ready-for-mobile format, or shrink pictures to the screen resolution so that they save storage space on the device. As a result, you can carry virtually thousands of pictures and hundreds of videos with you, all the time.
Additionally, newer models like the Nokia N78 and N96 understand tags, location-based information (geo-tagging), albums and other organization in Nokia Photos and display them in the “Photos” app on the phone.
Finally, as you’ve probably guessed – the application is made to sing along Nokia Ovi service. Heck, even the look and feel of Nokia Photos is consistent with the Ovi brand. The idea is of course to allow users to upload their photos to Nokia’s servers, and share them or have them accessible from wherever they happen to be…
Enough talk. Hop over to Nokia Photos’ page, download the app, and if you have any comments – we’re eager to hear them. Comments form is all yours…
[Via: SymbianFreak]