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divdiv class=entry readability=28 p!-- wpautop enabled --br/style type=text/css![CDATA[.gallery-overview.native .gallery-description p{font-size:1em;line-height:20px;margin:20px 0px;}]]/style!-- Native WP Gallery --/pnoscriptstyle type=text/css![CDATA[ .gallery-overview.native .gallery-slide {display:list-item; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;} .gallery-overview.native .gallery-pic img {display:none;} li.gallery-description {display:none;} .gallery-overview.native .gallery-thumbnail a img {display:none;} div.gallery-navigation div {display:none;} div.gallery-description {margin: 20px 0}; ]]/style/noscriptdiv id=wpgallery-1 class=native gallery-overview gallery-lightdiv class=gallery-slides-wrapul class=gallery-slidesli class=gallery-slide slide-first id=slide-252791div class=gallery-description readability=7pInstagram finally launched on Windows Phone this morning, making the popular photo-sharing app available on every major mobile platform. /p#13; pBut while it's emon/em iOS, Android, and Windows Phone, the app differs significantly from platform to platform -- particularly on the latter. Windows Phone has positioned itself as a unique mobile OS with a strikingly different look and navigation features compared to other major platforms. Most apps on Windows Phone look and behave significantly differently than on iOS or Android, and Instagram is no exception./p/div/lili class=gallery-slide id=slide-252901div class=gallery-description readability=17p/h2Navigation/h2#13; pOn iOS (always pictured on the left) and Android (center), the main navigation tabs -- your feed, Explore, the camera button, your notifications, and your profile -- are spread across the bottom of the screen. On Windows Phone (right), everything but the camera button is located in the upper right of the app, next to the Instagram logo. The button is centered at the bottom of the screen with a search and refresh button on either side. On iOS and Android, the refresh button is located in the upper righthand corner. Instagram's logo is centered on the feed tab in iOS, and left aligned on Windows Phone and Android./p#13; #13; p/h2The Feed/h2#13; pScrolling through the stream of filtered photos uploaded by the people you follow, the experience is fairly similar across platforms. Your friend's smiling circular avatar, name, and the time since they posted the photo are followed by a square image that takes up the width of your phone's display. Beneath, comments and likes. On iOS, the ... button that gives you the option to report a photo as inappropriate or share the URL also has the convenient option to tweet the photo. You flick upwards to go back in time in your feed. On Android and Windows Phone, the Instagram logo is persistent across the top of the screen as you scroll down. /p/div/lili class=gallery-slide id=slide-252951div class=gallery-description readability=19p/h2Taking Photos/h2#13; pDespite a href=http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/20/instagram-waze-windows-phone/initial reports/a, the Instagram app for Windows Phone emdoes/em let you take photos directly in the app -- it's just an extra step. In general, the photo taking and sharing experience on Windows Phone is a bit more disjointed than on the other platforms. /p#13; pWhen you click the camera button at the bottom of the screen, it gives you the option to select a photo from the camera roll. There's another camera button at the bottom of that screen you can tap to actually emtake/em a photo. The app does not let you take videos like it does on Android and iOS. On the latter, cropping is accomplished in the same step as selecting the photo. On Windows Phone, you select the image and cropping is an extra step./p#13; #13; pFrom there, on all three platforms, you've got your editing and filtering options. When your photo is adjusted to your liking, the next screen on iOS and Android looks nearly identical, with space for adding a caption, tagging people, adding to your photo map, and sharing to different social networks. On Windows Phone, you can't tag people or add to your photo map. You can add a location to photos, though. You finish off the process by tapping a checkmark at the bottom of the screen on Windows Phone, or the green share button in the upper right of iOS, or the green checkmark in the upper right of the Android screen. /p/div/lili class=gallery-slide id=slide-252891div class=gallery-description readability=2p/h2Explore/h2#13; pIn the Explore tab, a search field sits at the top of the screen in iOS and Windows Phone. The latter also features that search button next to the camera button at the bottom of the screen. Android features a search button in the upper right that opens a separate page for Instagram searches./p/div/lili class=gallery-slide id=slide-252971div class=gallery-description readability=4p/h2Notifications/h2#13; pAs for your notifications tab, iOS and Android let you distinguish between a list of updates that just related to your own post (News on iOS and You on Android), or what the people you're following are up to (Following). Windows Phone only displays notifications pertaining to you, with the the Following News option hidden in the options button in the lower righthand corner -- easy to miss. /p/div/lili class=gallery-slide slide-last id=slide-252961div class=gallery-description readability=10p/h2Profile and Settings/h2p#13; /ppYour personal profile looks pretty much the same across platform, however Windows Phone lacks options for viewing your photo map or the photos that you've been tagged in./p#13; #13; pYou are offered the exact same settings to edit your profile on each platform, but they are organized differently on Windows Phone. There, rather than scrolling up to access different types of settings, you swipe sideways between three different panes: Info, Password, and Private Info. Other than that, the only notable difference is that option to keep your posts private is listed below the Private Information header on iOS and Android, but it's listed under the Info page on Windows Phone. /p/div/li/ul/divdiv class=gallery-descriptions-wrapul class=gallery-descriptionsli class=gallery-description descriptions-first id=description-252791 readability=7pInstagram finally launched on Windows Phone this morning, making the popular photo-sharing app available on every major mobile platform. /p pBut while it's emon/em iOS, Android, and Windows Phone, the app differs significantly from platform to platform -- particularly on the latter. Windows Phone has positioned itself as a unique mobile OS with a strikingly different look and navigation features compared to other major platforms. Most apps on Windows Phone look and behave significantly differently than on iOS or Android, and Instagram is no exception./p /lili class=gallery-description id=description-252901 readability=17p /ph2Navigation/h2 pOn iOS (always pictured on the left) and Android (center), the main navigation tabs -- your feed, Explore, the camera button, your notifications, and your profile -- are spread across the bottom of the screen. On Windows Phone (right), everything but the camera button is located in the upper right of the app, next to the Instagram logo. The button is centered at the bottom of the screen with a search and refresh button on either side. On iOS and Android, the refresh button is located in the upper righthand corner. Instagram's logo is centered on the feed tab in iOS, and left aligned on Windows Phone and Android./p p /ph2The Feed/h2 pScrolling through the stream of filtered photos uploaded by the people you follow, the experience is fairly similar across platforms. Your friend's smiling circular avatar, name, and the time since they posted the photo are followed by a square image that takes up the width of your phone's display. Beneath, comments and likes. On iOS, the ... button that gives you the option to report a photo as inappropriate or share the URL also has the convenient option to tweet the photo. You flick upwards to go back in time in your feed. On Android and Windows Phone, the Instagram logo is persistent across the top of the screen as you scroll down. /p /lili class=gallery-description id=description-252951 readability=19p /ph2Taking Photos/h2 pDespite a href=http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/20/instagram-waze-windows-phone/initial reports/a, the Instagram app for Windows Phone emdoes/em let you take photos directly in the app -- it's just an extra step. In general, the photo taking and sharing experience on Windows Phone is a bit more disjointed than on the other platforms. /p pWhen you click the camera button at the bottom of the screen, it gives you the option to select a photo from the camera roll. There's another camera button at the bottom of that screen you can tap to actually emtake/em a photo. The app does not let you take videos like it does on Android and iOS. On the latter, cropping is accomplished in the same step as selecting the photo. On Windows Phone, you select the image and cropping is an extra step./p pFrom there, on all three platforms, you've got your editing and filtering options. When your photo is adjusted to your liking, the next screen on iOS and Android looks nearly identical, with space for adding a caption, tagging people, adding to your photo map, and sharing to different social networks. On Windows Phone, you can't tag people or add to your photo map. You can add a location to photos, though. You finish off the process by tapping a checkmark at the bottom of the screen on Windows Phone, or the green share button in the upper right of iOS, or the green checkmark in the upper right of the Android screen. /p /lili class=gallery-description id=description-252891 readability=2p /ph2Explore/h2 pIn the Explore tab, a search field sits at the top of the screen in iOS and Windows Phone. The latter also features that search button next to the camera button at the bottom of the screen. Android features a search button in the upper right that opens a separate page for Instagram searches./p /lili class=gallery-description id=description-252971 readability=4p /ph2Notifications/h2 pAs for your notifications tab, iOS and Android let you distinguish between a list of updates that just related to your own post (News on iOS and You on Android), or what the people you're following are up to (Following). Windows Phone only displays notifications pertaining to you, with the the Following News option hidden in the options button in the lower righthand corner -- easy to miss. /p /lili class=gallery-description descriptions-last id=description-252961 readability=10p /ph2Profile and Settings/h2 p/pYour personal profile looks pretty much the same across platform, however Windows Phone lacks options for viewing your photo map or the photos that you've been tagged in./p pYou are offered the exact same settings to edit your profile on each platform, but they are organized differently on Windows Phone. There, rather than scrolling up to access different types of settings, you swipe sideways between three different panes: Info, Password, and Private Info. 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