Snapture Labs Announces Snapture 2.0, and There Was Much Rejoicing
by Eric March on August 21, 2008 at 11:04 am
Do you know what I find I miss most about having given myself entirely over to firmware 2.x? Snapture. Some of you may recall my in-depth treatise on the first release of Snapture back in early April, and I was suitably impressed — how could I not have been? It was everything the built-in camera app wasn’t and more than I expected. It instantly supplanted the built-in app to the extent that its icon was just taking up space. But Snapture couldn’t follow me over to the iPod 2.x and iPhone 3G upgrades, so I’ve had to revert to the now plainer-than-ever-feeling built-in app for my picture-taking needs.
So imagine my glee when Snapture’s kingpin Bowei Gai shot me an E-Mail to inform me of the release of Snapture 2.0. Seriously — I could hardly contain an audible squeee! It was embarassingly un-masculine and I had to go and arm wrestle someone just to regain my manly composure. Of course, now I’m kicking myself for not having gotten around to upgrading and jailbreaking firmware 2.0.1 — an oversight I am going to rectify tonight after work now that I have one of the best reasons of all to do so.
That means however that I can’t write up a proper review just yet and will have to rely on (and drool over) the goodies included in the press kit. After the break we’ll go over the full press release and rock some screenshots and a video.
Snapture 2.0 Press Release
———————————————–Snapture 2.0 Brings QuickView, Multitouch, Speed to iPhone Camera
Now available on Installer and Cydia for both Original and 3G iPhonesMountain View, CA. August 18, 2008. Snapture has now released version 2.0 of its iPhone camera app, which now allows users to take photos using all the major features of a digital camera. Snapture 2.0 now has four different color modes, multitouch gesture zoom, delay timer, and a new clean user interface. Most notably, Snapture’s new QuickView system allows users to view and delete recent pictures directly on the viewfinder– a feature that cuts the average photo taking session in half.
April’s release of Snapture 1.4 was a big success – helping over 400,000 camera enthusiasts from all over the world to take better, more sophisticated pictures on their iPhone. Snapture version 2.0 takes iPhone photography to the next level – and incorporates much of the feedback received from its fan base. The new free ad-supported version builds on the popular features of its first release (easy photo capture, multishot, delay timer, level, etc), but also adds a new clean user-interface, multi-touch gesture zoom, and new color modes like sepia and negative.
But the real story is in Snapture’s new QuickView System – which is a true game changer in mobile photography. The QuickView System allows users to view, enlarge and delete recent pictures directly on the viewfinder. This cuts the average photo taking session in half, by saving the hassle of having to exit the camera app and enter Camera Roll when users want to see or delete a recent picture. QuickView is available only on Snapture Premium, and can be enabled for $7.99 US.
Snapture is available in 9 different languages, and requires a jailbroken original or 3G iPhone. The app can be downloaded via Installer or Cydia under Utilities, or please visit www.snapturelabs.com/video.
html for a demo. For more information about Snapture, please visit www.SnaptureLabs.com/press. html, or email media@snapturelabs.com.
Anyone who has had doubts about the continued viability of the jailbreak scene now that the App Store has taken much of the spotlight need only look as far as Snapture to be reminded of why we still need people like the iPhone Dev Team around to open our devices to borders far beyond the App Store. Snapture is something you just won’t find in the App Store, and remains one of the key reasons to fire up Pwnage or QuickPwn and get cracking. Still not convinced? Check out the video and screenies below. If that doesn’t get you going, then I’m sorry to hear about whatever it is that happened in your past that has rendered you dead inside. We still love you.
For the rest of you, I’ll be doing a full write-up of Snapture 2.0 Premium in a few days’ time — just in case there are still a few fence-sitters who want to see it in the hands of an independent boffin like me.
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August 21st, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Great article. Just downloaded this sweet app off Cydia. After seeing that video I just can’t resist upgrading. I absolutely hate going into CameraRoll to take a look at photos that I just captured. The slide deleting also looks pretty sweet/useful.
August 21st, 2008 at 2:00 pm
That’s my thinking, too — the QuickView system alone makes it worth the sticker price; I’m always taking pictures and then trying to quickly look at the screen to see if the shot went off okay before it disappears into the camera roll. And of course I never get a good enough look at my most recent shots so I have to hop into the camera roll, review my latest shots, can the ones that didn’t cut it, then if necessary hop back to springboard and reload the camera app.
The Snapture team definitely “gets it.”
August 21st, 2008 at 5:19 pm
I’m still using v.1.14 on my iphone and had snapture 1.4 on there. Great program. Updated today and now everytime I open it up, I have to deal with advertisement propably until I buy the full version. I think this should be told to customers before they update. Right now I would rather have 1.4 back but it’s gone from installer.
August 21st, 2008 at 5:43 pm
I agree that there should be some kind of warning when upgrading – roping people into a new but crippled version without fair warning does smell of entrapment, so hopefully they will add such a warning to their package. Even so it’s worth noting that the sticker price is reasonable given all of its great new features.
August 22nd, 2008 at 8:18 am
This is the answer I got from snapturlab:
You can upgrade to Snapture Premium and get rid of ads.
Without this great hint I propably would have never found it out (ha, ha).
August 22nd, 2008 at 8:44 am
Well, maybe you’ll have another chance to get yourself a premium version. I’m not saying how.
Yet.
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