Name: Lightbox
Quick Pitch: Lightbox Photos for Android wirelessly syncs your photos across all of your Android devices, and downloads photos shared by friends on social networks for an offline browsing experience.
Genius Idea: Browse your friends’ Facebook and Twitter photos without a wireless connection.
Just as the rise of desktop computing gave us distinct PC and Mac cultures, the smartphone boom is creating to two distinct schools of thought: iPhone and Android.
Thai Tran, the CEO of Lightbox, is aligning himself and his startup with the latter group, hoping to serve an ever-expanding audience with a photo applicati on experience and user interface that rivals what mobile users will find on iPhone.
The startup’s first release, Lightbox Photos for Android, is a social camera application with a focus on photo taking, effects, sharing, syncing and consuming. It’s not completely dissimilar from the popular mobile photo sharing applications on iPhone, expect it has some important and unique twists.
As a camera application, you can use Lightbox to snap, shot, share and style photos. The application includes ten different filters, and supports sharing to Facebook, Tumblr and Foursquare.
Lightbox shines most in its unseen details. The application has been optimized to work with or without a network connection, so if you want to capture and share photos from a signal-free subway car, Lightbox won’t disappoint. The next time you have a network connection, the application will automatically upload and share your photos.
Lightbox is also work ing away in the...
