Instagram App For Google Nexus 7 Tablet Released

Instagram for Google Nexus 7

The Instagram app for the Android OS was updated recently to allow it to support the Jelly Bean Android OS that comes with the Google Nexus 7 tablet.

Although the Google Nexus 7 tablet does not feature a camera at the back, the latest update has allowed the Instagram app to support the device. The images can be recorded through the camera in front of the device or users can also upload images into the storage of the tablet before uploading them into the servers of Instagram.

In addition to the support for the latest product offering of the online search giant by the Instagram app, Flickr sharing support was also added by Instagram. With Flickr sharing support Yahoo users will be able to share images into the photo sharing service of Yahoo by simply adding their accounts through the sharing settings of the Instagram app. The settings are located on the main setting page of the Instagram app.

The reasonable $200 price tag of the Google Nexus 7 tablet has allowed the device to become among the more popular Android-powered tablets for the moment. The Google Nexus 7 tablet features the Jelly Bean Android 4.1 OS, which is the most recent version of the Google mobile OS. It features a seven-inch screen display, quad-core Tegra 3 processor, and a 1.2MP camera in front. The updated Instagram app will allow users of the application to share images that they record using the device.

Ten Million In Ten Days for Instagram

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Following the purchase of Instagram by Facebook for one billion dollars and the addition of the Android version of the app, users have increased from around thirty million to forty million recently.

The availability of Instagram to Android users was unveiled only recently, which allowed a huge number of Android users to finally use the photo-sharing application after a very long wait. This resulted to the addition ten million users for the app within ten days after it was made available to Android users.

Although some users downloaded the photo-sharing application out of curiosity, this only served to further increase the number of users of the app. Gramfeed was the first site to make the number of Instagram users available. Gramfeed is a website focused on the photo-sharing application and it identified the 40,000,000th user as “valentinoelbuti’

With the rate of increase in the Instagram users, some industry watchers have indicated that the number of fancy images from numerous users around the world will also increase. So far so good for an app that was launched less than two years with an initial funding of around $500,000.

Instagram for Android Released

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Following its introduction in 2010, a number of users have been waiting for the release of the Instagram for Android app. The app was initially available in iOS devices and users of Android-powered devices were promised the release of the app into their devices.

The long wait has finally ended as the Instagram for Android app was finally released recently through the Google Play Market.

The Instagram for Android app was initially hinted during the recent South by Southwest event although the specific release date was not revealed by the company.

Most of the features of the app for the Instagram for Android app are available for use although it reportedly excludes the tilt-shift/blur function. The user interface for the Instagram for Android app is similar to the iOS version of the app. Aside from being able to upload images, users are also given the capability of browsing through the images of their friends as well as view popular images.

With the release of the Instagram for Android app, the community of around thirty million users will grow. Around five million images have been uploaded each day by these registered users, which will increase with the addition of new users of devices using the Android OS.

The Instagram for Android app is compatible to smartphones that are using the Android 2.2 OS and up For the moment the app is not yet available to Android-powered tablet PCs.