Nokia Beta Labs just released a new Photo Browser for the Nokia 5800. When I say "one of the nicest I've seen", I'm talking about on ANY mobile device, not just S60 Nokia phones. When I first read this news over at Symbian-Guru.com I was ecstatic as Nokia Beta Labs has been really pushing out some cool new S60 applications lately.

Nokia Photo Browser includes a new facial recognition technology. If there are a few people in the picture you can touch their face and the application zooms in on that person. You can then move the picture around to view other faces in the photo. Scrolling through thumbnails is extremely intuitive and fast - bringing more "eye candy" to the S60 5th Edition, something that is really needed.

Check out the video demonstration released by Labs...



According to Mika from Beta Labs...

Nokia Photo Browser is still prototype application and it has some limitations. We are developing new features and improving the usability continuously. If you have Nokia S60 5.0 phone with touch screen like Nokia XpressMusic 5800, give us feed back how we can further develop Photo Browser application. If you don’t have touch screen device yet, wait for a moment. We will release Photo Browser also for Series 60 3.x products soon.

Nokia Photo Browser will also work for the upcoming Nokia N97. I'm hoping this application entirely replaces the built in photo gallery. Support for S60 3rd Edition devices like the Nokia E71 and N85 is coming soon.

I haven't got a chance to try this out yet, but I'll install it on my fiance's 5800 tonight and let you guys know any gripes I might have. So far a big thumbs up to Nokia for getting us something pretty to show off and at the same time keeping the usability factor. Hopefully we'll continue seeing more applications like this in the near future.

Click here to download Nokia Photo Browser.

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