Nokia City Lens comes out of beta and these are the features of the version for Nokia Lumia 920 and Lumia 820

Nokia City Lens is the useful application of augmented reality that, after a period of beta testing at Nokia Beta Labs, was officially introduced in the Marketplace. Owners of a Nokia Lumia 900, 800 and 710 can then download the most mature version of Nokia City Lens, which allows you to perform searches on a number of points of interest using the AR system integrated.

Nokia City Lens will also be part of the budget of the Nokia Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 for which it is developing a version with even richer features.The potential of the operating system Windows Phone 8 will, in fact available to expand the features of the current release.

Nokia City Lens for Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 include first and foremost the ability to leverage a new layout of the icons in 3D that will make the user experience even more realistic.

Secondly, the version reserved for terminals WP8 allow to obviate to a fairly common problem to augmented reality applications. Not all labels on the screen correspond to buildings that can actually be displayed in the environment. In some cases, for example, the point of interest may be physically located beyond a building, but the indication is also shown on the display. Nokia City Lens for Lumia 920 and 820 offer the possibility to filter the search results, displaying signs realtive to buildings that are actually visible in the environment that surrounds the user .

Another new feature is the ability to take advantage of the tile on the home screen to have at hand the various categories and therefore shortening the search. The menuof Nokia City Lens will be then the Custom Collection, either by adding favorite searches .Finally, the renewed version of ' application will support the use both in landscape or in portrait .

The features described above relate to the future version for Lumia 920 and 820. Until then, the current Lumia can continue to use Nokia City Lens with the stable version of the application. The data on the one hand is very encouraging because it shows a willingness to exploit the potential made ​​possible by the new hardware and software Lumia WP8. On the other hand, the specter of fragmentation between apps Lumia dedicated to first and second generation begins to appear. Recall, for example, that the holders of existing Lumia will have to give also the feature of Nokia Maps that allows you to use the maps in offline mode.

Source Nokia Conversations