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Nokia Image Exchange goes manual

Written by Janne Kaasalainen, Nokia Image Exchange team

We here at the Nokia Image Exchange team have been positively surprised by the amount of feedback from the Beta Labs community. Based on the comments and requests, we are now updating the Nokia Image Exchange S60 client and the Web site and are hoping that these changes meet your needs even better.

The most important new feature is to allow manual uploading of images to the server for sharing, backing up and transferring to PC. New users can select upon the first start of the application whether they wish to use the full automatic back-up or choose to opt for manual control instead. Our existing users can also change to manual uploads mode via the Settings on the mobile client. This should reduce the need for flat-fee data plans considerably.

And we do feel that Nokia Image Exchange is a wonderful standalone gallery as well.

The second major change is that we are in the process of integrating to Nokia Account. From today onwards, you will be asked to provide your Nokia account credentials when you login to the Nokia Image Exchange Web site.

Initial login is done with the credentials from Nokia Image Exchange mobile client. You are then asked to connect these to your Nokia Account. This is a one-time operation after which you can use your Nokia Account with the Web site. Users who only use the mobile client do not see any changes.

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 application and a corresponding web-service. Nokia Image Exchange explores the possibilities of the mobile phone when it is enabled with always-on data connection and utilizes existing contact information as a basis for social networking.

Please find more information and downloadable S60 and S40 clients on:

http://imageexchange.nokia.com/

On behalf of Nokia Image Exchange team,

Janne Kaasalainen