Microsoft has released the company’s first application for Apple’s popular smartphone[iPhone] called Seadragon Mobile. The Seadragon Mobile application allows users to view images with giga-pixel resolutions. This application allows users to zoom in on the details of very high-resolution images, like a map. After enabling this application with the iPhone, it includes multi-touch capabilities means users can zoom in or out image/picture with ease.
In present time Most of the phones don’t have accelerated graphics features but iPhone is associated with this great feature. This iPhone application is a photo viewer contains browsing capability that makes easy to handle large number of photos on a mobile device screen. It has the ability to add your own content from uploaded material at Photosynth, RSS image feeds such as Flickr feeds, and Deep Zoom Content.
The Microsoft’s Live Labs division product Seadragon mobile application is available free on Apple’s application store. The advanced featured of Seadragon which make it different is- Deep Zoom feature, also integrated into Silverlight 2. by this user can easily magnify a particular part of a image.
Alex Daley, group product manager for Microsoft Live Labs, told
“The iPhone is the most widely distributed phone with a [graphics processing unit]. Most phones out today don’t have accelerated graphics in them. The iPhone does and so it enabled us to do something that has been previously difficult to do.”
