14 DAY TRIAL // One of the new features that would arrive on Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system in the not too far future would be a Photosynth application.
It would offer users the possibility to stitch together photos taken with their phone's camera to create panoramas straight on their handsets.
We already reported on the upcoming availability of the application, and some new info on it started to emerge.
Apparently, the developers' team behind the Photosynth application is set to make the software available for users as soon as possible.
No commitment to a specific release date was made, but the team's manager announced the delivery of a Windows Phone flavor of the Photosynth app was their top priority, WMPoweruser notes.
David Gedye, Photosynth Group Program Manager, Microsoft, reportedly started:
Yes – we’re working on a version for Windows 7 Phone now. You can definitely communicate this info to your members.
We cant make any commitment about ship date though, except to say that it is our top priority.
Apparently, the first release of Windows Phone did not included the necessary APIs to make such an application available for users, but the new release of the OS, Mango, would have them.
“Windows Phone 1.0 didn’t have the video mode API’s to allow us to provide the capture experience that everyone loves about our app. Neither did Android. Only iOS did at the time and we (correctly I think) judged that a great capture experience was essential to lots of usage,” David Gedye explained.
He also continued saying that the next Windows Phone release, Mango, would arrive with these APIs inside, and that the team is working with the Mango developers for the release of this application.
The application might arrive as soon as the next flavor of the OS is made available too, namely in fall this year, though chances are that we'd be able to see it before that.