500px has today shored-up its mobile offerings by introducing its first ever Android app. The app is both tablet and phone friendly, and brings the same elegance we’ve come to expect of 500px to the Android community.
The new Android app includes all the features previously found in the iPad app – magazine-like photo streams, category filters, full search, and the usual social features like friends’ photos, favourites, image ratings, comments and sharing to other communities like Facebook and Twitter.
Along with this evening’s introduction of an Android app, 500px also upgraded its iPad app to support retina display. The app now features native Twitter support and, perhaps most importantly, supports in-app purchases on a 300,000-strong selection of photos available to buy in digital or print form. Overall, the service houses over six million images from professional photographers and budding amateurs alike.
Oleg Gutsol, 500px CEO and co-founder, spoke of how his company was supporting an evolving industry,
“We’re in the midst of a movement to reinvent the experience of photography and culture on mobile devices. The way we take photos, and what we use to take them, is evolving. The way we showcase and consume photos must follow. With our site and applications, everyone can be an artist or a curator or both, through any medium.”
500px also has plans to launch a Kindle app shortly. This kind of mobile strategy is admirable and one that appears to be paying-off. The 500px iPad app was downloaded over 100,000 times in its first week, has recorded over 300 million page flips since then and the average viewing session length worldwide is a massive 42 minutes. One enthusiastic user even spent a whole nine hours browsing images continuously in one sitting!
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