Apr 19, 2011 16:06 GMT  ·  By

One of the latest mobile applications that Microsoft released into the wild was the Photosynth app, which just landed on Apple's iPhone and iPad devices, and which, apparently is also set to make an appearance on handsets running under Windows Phone 7.

These devices already have an application that delivered similar functionality for their users, called Panorama shot (with limited capabilities), but the more advanced application is set to become available for them soon.

Now available for Apple's devices, the application enables users to easily put together immersive panoramas in real time, through stitching together images captured with the device's camera.

The same should arrive on Windows Phone 7 devices soon, although Microsoft chose to release the app first on a rival platform.

“Our approach to the design of the Photosynth app hopefully provides some evidence that we very much think of Windows Phone 7 as brethren and inspiration, not to mention proof that Microsoft can make beautiful things,” Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Bing Mobile architect, notes on the personal blog.

“But the level of camera and low-level algorithmic hacking needed to make Photosynth work meant that, if we wanted to get this out as quickly as possible— and we surely did— we needed to do so on a platform that provided the necessary low-level device access.”

Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system does not offer support for these at the moment, but it should offer it in the not too far future.

The Photosynth application for Windows Phone 7 would certainly arrive after the deployment of the next flavor of the OS, codenamed Mango, which was already said to be capable to offer new camera APIs and access to more resources than before.

“It’s worth keeping in mind that the first several generations of iPhone device and OS wouldn’t have allowed us to build this app either. For now, iPhone’s platform maturity— and of course the large number of people with iPhones out there— meant that it made sense for us to go for it,” the said blog post continues.