Windows Phone Mango Pictures and Camera Preview

Опубликовано 19 июня 2011, 3:04

The first thing that I love about the new Pictures hub is its live tile. It's still a full two column rectangular tile (which I like), but it's no longer a static image of whatever background you've got in your hub panorama. Now it does an awesome Ken Burns effect as it scrolls through different images. It seems to display mostly photos that have been marked as Favorites, and the slow movement means you don't have a weird cropping stuck there. It's really a fantastic little live tile now.

In the Pictures hub panorama, there's now a little menu at the bottom so that you don't have to know the secret for changing the background image anymore. It's right there in that menu. Also, the hub panorama no longer just shows a random grid of photo thumbnails. It now shows a random grid of thumbnails that have been marked as your favorites. Favorite ratings still sync from the Zune desktop software via standard ratings metadata, by the way, so you don't have to mark them as favorites from the phone. Also, pictures now look great with 32-bit color support!

A "People" item is now on the Pictures hub as well. This section will show tiles that represent people who's photos you may have recently browsed through, as well as tiles representing groups of people. From there you can browse all the pictures of your "Family" group for example. It will download and display all the images that any of your family members have posted on cloud services such as Windows Live and Facebook.

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