The standard photo browser on your Nokia Symbian Anna smartphone is capable enough, but Photo Browser 2 adds a bunch of new features and is available to download now from Nokia Ovi Store. Is it worth the £1 asking price? Let's take a look. 

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Nokia's smartphones are well known for their camera capabilities, whether it's a high-flying Nokia N8 or a mid-range Nokia C6-01, so it's fair to expect you'll take plenty of photos day-to-day.

The standard photo browser does a decent enough job in letting you check through your snaps, but it does have its limitations, and the more photos you take, the more you'll be restricted by them.

Ironically enough, the first experience you'll have of Photo Browser 2 will only frustrate you even more if you're a heavy camera user, and that's because the very first thing it does is catalogues your entire photo library into thumbnails, which can take as much as half an hour if you've got a very big collection.

You'll only have to go through this once, however. From then on Photo Browser 2 will only add new thumbnails each time you open it.

A significant difference over the standard browser is that you can choose to browse specific albums, or your photos by month, which will suit the busy photographer, or someone who uses their phone to take photos for specific purposes.

However you choose to view your pics, the basic thumbnail viewer is similar, but the thumbnails are of a higher quality and are animated so that when you swipe to bring up older or newer pics the whole viewer takes on the view of a 3D ribbon that's trailing ahead or behind as you're scrolling through.

Tap on an individual pic and it fills the screen, and you then have options to send the photo to a contact via email, message or Bluetoooth, rotate the pic 90 degrees left or right, delete it, check out some basic info or exit the program.

A double-tap zooms in, a process you can repeat once for a second zoom, but considering it's an app for Symbian Anna phones it would have been nice to have seen a pinch-to-zoom function. We're also disappointed that Photo Browser 2 only works with photos and not videos too like the standard Symbian photo library.

Overall, it's certainly an improvement, and one we'd be happy to see become the standard browser on board all Symbian Anna-based phones – ideally with the couple of fixes suggested above.

But sticking a £1 price tag changes it from a must-have essential download to a luxury upgrade we're not sure lives up to its price tag. We'd still give it the benefit of the doubt, but making Photo Browser 2 free would make it a no-brainer.

DOWNLOAD: Photo Browser 2
Size: 1.13MB
Price: £1