The Instagram app that Nokia announced was coming at its Nokia World conference last month has finally landed, although it is very much still work in progress, appearing in the Windows Store as Instagram Beta.
The Beta tag lets users know that they shouldn't expect all the bell and whistles of Instagram's iOS and Android apps. At present, video capture and video upload are both missing from the Instagram Windows Phone 8 app, as are photo and location tagging.
Instagram said that it wanted to get the app out to users as quickly as possible, so a few features had to be left out of the first iteration.
Still, we've got Instagram up and running on our Nokia Lumia 1020, and all of the other features you'd expect are present in the app. There's the ability to upload an image from Camera Roll, or to turn the app into a camera lens, a feature that many thought was missing due to the odd button placement in the app.
All of the usual filters are present in the app, including XPro-II, Earlybird, Rise, Amaro, Hudson, Lo-fi, Sutro, Toaster, Brannan, Inkwell, Walden, Hefe, Nashville and 1977, as are linear and radial tilt-shift options for blurring images and the option to comment on images of your friends' dinners.
Instagram Beta is available to download for free from the Windows Store, and although it is missing a number of features it has already received a four and a half star rating from keen downloaders.
The arrival of Instagram sees Microsoft further boosting its Windows Store with more big name apps, with the hipster photo sharing app coming out just days after Twitter's Vine and Channel 4's 4OD TV catch-up service. Waze is also now available on the Windows Phone 8 mobile operating system, and Microsoft claims that more popular apps will be arriving soon.
Source : The Inquirer
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