Fresh From The Beta Labs: Nokia Image Exchange

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In time for the festive season, the Nokia Beta labs has released a new experimental application that should make share photos with the world and archieving them for yourself (online) a breeze. It aims to provide a seamless integration of a mobile image gallery and a corresponding web-service.

The idea behind Nokia Image Exchange was to get rid of unnecessary hassles with account creations, transferring images and image sharing. Image Exchange uses its own accounts and creates these accounts for you automatically. Your phone’s images get backed up to the service in the background so you don’t need to manually upload them. So all you do is click and the images automaticaaly become available via desktop web browsers.

It also has a social side to it that finds other Image Exchange users from your address book automatically and alloww you to share images to them without ever knowing their usernames. When your friends publish or share new images, they are automatically and almost instantly pushed onto your device. Likewise, Image Exchange keeps track on comments posted to your images as well as those you have commented.

If you are worried about privacy, don’t be as you can also choose to keep the pictures to your self only. Also, in case you do not wish to utilize online connectivity, the Image Exchange mobile client works as a standalone gallery application. After creating screen-optimized thumbnails, it works as a very nice and fast image gallery.

For a better understanding, check this video out:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdjDnsrnoH4&eurl=http://www.nokia.com/betalabs/imageexchange&feature=player_embedded

Head over to the Image Exchange website to download the application and have a tour of what it offers. It should work with most devices, but the N96, E90 and Nokia 5800 XpressMusic have known issues.

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