Nokia Magnifier

Wednesday 18th February 2009 by Andy Simpson in Mobile Applications.

Ever found yourself struggling to read the small print on labels, receipts and instruction manuals? The boffins over at Nokia obviously have, which is why they’ve just relesead a Beta (trial) version of Nokia Magnifier.

The concept is simple (to the point of why didn’t I think of that,) it uses the camera on your phone to zoom in to what ever you point it at and make it larger on your screen. It only works on Nokia Symbian 60 phones ( for example the N95, N82, N85 & N73) and is available now to download from the Nokia Betalabs website.

Nokia have put this video together to show it in action: