Nokia launches "Nokia Image Exchange"

Nokia BetaLabs just announced the release of a new application designed to make sharing images easier. Nokia Image Exchange . You can find out more about it on the Nokia Image Exchange Website.

Here’s a bit from the post on Betalabs :

Nokia Image Exchange is an experimental imaging service to make browsing and sharing images fun and easy. It aims to provide a seamless integration of a mobile image gallery and a corresponding web-service.

Image Exchange explores user experience when the mobile phone is enabled with an always-on data connection and utilizes existing contact information as a basis for social networking.

More on Nokia Image Exchange, and a video to explain it, after the break

The Intro video :

The major driving force we had in developing Image Exchange was convenience. We wanted 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. In many cases they are ready for you to view them via desktop web browsers.

Sharing features detect other Image Exchange users from your address book automatically and allow you to share images to them without ever knowing their usernames. But we also wanted to make it easy to see what your friends are sharing to you. 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.

Image Exchange allows sharing and publishing from a single interface.

Our web interface is not just for viewing images with your web browser. You can use it to put titles and descriptions onto your images as well as to comment other people’s photos. The changes you make are reflected to your mobile device. It is also possible to send links to your public images so that others can see them even if they were not Image Exchange users.

Image Exchange makes it easy to access your images via web browsers.

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.

Important Notice!

In online mode Nokia Image Exchange transfers your images to the web-service immediately as they are captured. This can cause a significant amount of data traffic between the mobile phone and the service. Having a flat-fee cellular data plan or using Wi-Fi connection is highly recommended!

We hope that you will have fun moments using Nokia Image Exchange and give us a lot of feedback about what you think of it.

Wait, so Nokia just released an application that kinda replaces Share Online AND the built in gallery ?

I do however, really like the UI on Image Exchange though. I wish more Nokia apps were as polished in the UI as this one.

Slight warning for N96 and 5800 users, apparently they’re having some few issues with this application on those phones.

So far it seems to work pretty aite on my N85. I can see myself using Nokia Image Exchange a couple times, but only when I’m around free WiFi hehe. This looks its going to come in really useful.

-Teh Cj

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