Postcards, a randomized photo sharing network for your Windows Phone

Postcards is a simple photograph sharing Windows Phone app that allows you to send a photo to random users worldwide. The interface is straightforward and the but information shared is your photo, the urban center where the photo was taken and any comments you lot add to the photo.

Postcards may non rank up there with the likes of Instagram or Fhotoroom with regards to photo sharing networks. Notwithstanding, if yous like the randomness of seeing what is out there in the globe, information technology might be worth a try.

Like shooting fish in a barrel registration, unproblematic interface

When you beginning launch Postcards yous will be prompted to create a membership account. It's free and required to use the app.

The main pages for Postcards include:

A page that lists whatever received postcards
A page that will list any comments posted about the postcards y'all have sent
A map view with pins on where your postcards have received postcards from
An options folio where you tin can view postcards y'all have tagged equally favorites, view an About page and logout of your account.

To receive a postcard, you need to send a postcard and that process starts by tapping the "Send a Postcard" button bar on the Postcard Comments folio.

The internal camera app with Postcards has a shutter buttons (hardware button works as well) and a flash control button at the top of the screen. Once you capture an image, a text box will appear already labeled with your current location that you can add a personal message to. When you take everything set merely right, tap Send and your postcard will be delivered to a random Postcards member.

Presently afterwards you transport your postcard, y'all volition receive a postcard from a random member likewise. When you receive you postcard options volition be available to tag the image as a favorite, reply/comment on the postcard or study it as inappropriate.

Overall Impression

With any social network, photo sharing or otherwise, its success is dependent on the level of participation. Postcards has the potential of being an easy way to randomly share and receive photos from parts of the world you may never visit.

The Windows Phone Store description describes Postcards as a means to prove the common, everyday life of people from all effectually the world. While the app has potential, its success is very much dependent on audience participation that seems to be very low at the moment.

As far as performance is concerned, at that place are a few bugs that need to be ironed out. I experienced a few crashes while transitioning from the chief pages to the camera app and received postcards weren't always listed on the received postcards page.

The crashes weren't frequent enough to render the app useless but it would be squeamish to see the list of postcards received. These bugs may be one of the factors keeping participation downwards though.

Postcards is currently rated at 4.5 Stars in the Windows Telephone Store. Until the functioning bugs get ironed out, we see this rating a little on the high side.

Postcards - Windows Phone viii - 2MB - Free - Store Link

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