Whaddya know, camera phones are all grown up (and Nokia Photos has graduated from Beta Labs). Nokia’s flagship N96 can shoot at a super-sharp 5-megapixel snaps, and virtually its entire range is home to at least a 2-megapixel camera.

Now that your phone’s images can be enjoyed on larger screens or even as proper prints in a fancy frame and everything, Nokia is giving you the tools to get them there – a basic photo organiser and editor that’s designed especially for Nokia handsets. Find out how it performs, now it's out of school.

Nokia Photos is a free download for Windows PCs. Installation is a breeze, although decline the offer to import your entire Pictures folder unless you have hours to spare. You can also synchronise the application with any USB-connected phone.

Once your pictures (and videos) are on board, thumbnails appear in an Organise window. This sorts files by name and lets you add content and location tags – although the process is slower and clunkier than Adobe Photoshop Elements, say.

You get a better overview in the Timeline tab, which shuffles snaps to the correct day and has a smooth date slider. In either view, you can click next to the filename to ‘spin’ the image and see its properties – a nice touch.

The final tab is Map, which plots geotagged images on a familiar Nokia Maps screen. It’s early days for geo-tagging – my first-gen Nokia Navigator 6110 doesn’t geo-tag snaps automatically – so it’s good that you can manually add locations to your photos (assuming you have the patience).

Editing options are dismal – the red-eye feature blitzes a whole area with a colour cast and exposure tweaks are no better than you’ll find on a budget compact camera. The crop and email functions are more useful, and it’s straightforward to enter details of your Flickr or Ovi account for simple web uploads.

There’s also an online print service and a stripped-down version of Muvee to turn photos into dynamic slideshows with music, albeit only with a limited selection of styles.

Ironically, as camera phones become more like cameras, the necessity for a phone-specific image editor is disappearing.  Apart from a glossy interface and basic geotagging, Nokia Photos offers nothing unique. Moreover, its occasional crashes, over-complicated tagging and weak editing soon get annoying. Stick with PC Suite for uploading images and your current photo editor for everything else.

Key details

Size: 54MB

Price: Free

Download here: Nokia.com