Launched by Wacom´s app software group, Bamboo Loop is making mobile messaging highly visual, beautiful and fun
Wacom today announces Bamboo Loop – a new app for iPhone and iPod Touch. It combines principles of photo sharing and messaging in a unique and fun way: digital, paper-like photocards are sent (“looped”) to friends, family members and close colleagues.
Unlike many apps in which a photo is added separately to a text message, in Bamboo Loop photos take center stage and can be illustrated and personalized with the built-in editing tools. Sketch, scribble or write on the photo with the finger or a Bamboo Stylus, loop it back to the person who sent it or send it on to someone else, or share it with social networks. Everyone can be creative.
The base card within the app is a photograph framed with a white border; very handy for personal messages. A style browser offers a choice of different backgrounds, card shapes, patterns, photo filters, colour palettes and effects, enabling users to easily create cards with a nostalgic, artistic or fun feel. Some of the styles are provided free of charge, however additional ones can be purchased in-app from the Loop Style Gallery priced at $0.99 AUD per pack of four. Scribbles, drawings or messages can be written on the card in various colours and zooming into details is done with a pinch gesture, which facilitates the drawing of details. Photographs of mundane objects can become extraordinary and fun memories once gone through the creative treatment in Bamboo Loop.
Bamboo Loop is simply a great way to keep loved ones in the loop. Users can communicate backwards and forwards with each other as the digital cards can be fully modified before being returned. A smiley face, the “Bamboo Loop Like”, also provides more instant and cheerful feedback if one does not feel like drawing or writing. Currently the app works as a one-on-one communication loop, but cards can be shared with a wider group of friends by posting them on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter. Loop is also attractive as visual blogging tool for users of Tumblr.
Bamboo Loop combines the best of both worlds; aesthetically, a beautifully creative photo sharing tool, and in its mechanics it works as a personal messaging service, letting one talk one-on-one. So everyone can put a smile on someone’s face.
Technical Details:
- Bamboo Loop currently runs on iOS 5 and higher.
- It supports iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 5, iPod Touch 4, iPod Touch 5.
- Creating a Bamboo Loop account is required in order to use the application.
- Account creation goes through registration, which is email based.
- Bamboo Loop works very well with the Bamboo Styli, e.g. the Bamboo Stylus mini that can be attached to the jack of the iPhone.
Bamboo Loop is the second app launched by Wacom’s app software group, following the highly successful Bamboo Paper for iPad and Android phones (5 million installations), which can be downloaded for free via iTunes or Google Play and in the Samsung Apps Store.
Bamboo Loop will soon be available for Android phones. To receive a notification as soon as Bamboo Loop will be available in Google Play register with your email address at bambooloop.wacom.com/android.
For more information please visit bambooloop.wacom.com
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About the Bamboo Stylus family
Bamboo Loop works perfectly with the Wacom Stylus line-up. Besides the Bamboo Stylus mini, a colourful Stylus recommended for the use of smartphones, Wacom also provide the multi-purpose Bamboo Stylus duo – a rubber nib and a ball-point ink pen in one – the Bamboo Stylus pocket – a compact and extendable stylus for usage on the go – and the colourful Bamboo Stylus solo range – a rubber nib pen for media tablets in a choice of colours:. In addition to those capacitive stylus models Wacom also offers with the Bamboo Stylus feel a pressure sensitive Stylus range for the latest-generation Windows 8 and Android tablets based on Wacom feel IT Technologies.
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About Wacom
Wacom Company, Ltd. (Tokyo Stock Exchange 6727) is a global company founded in 1983 based in Japan with subsidiaries and affiliate offices around the world to support marketing and distribution in over 150 countries. Wacom’s vision to bring people and technology closer together through natural interface technologies has made it the world’s leading manufacturer of pen tablets, interactive pen displays, and digital interface solutions. The advanced technology of Wacom’s intuitive input devices has been used to create some of the most exciting digital art, films, special effects, fashion and designs around the world and provides business and home users with their leading interface technology to express their personality. Millions of customers are using its cordless, battery-free, pressure-sensitive pen technology.
The company also offers its products as OEM solutions to leading manufacturers serving incremental markets. Wacom’s interface technology, called Wacom Feel IT Technologies, is also offered as an integrated solution to strategic partners. Most Tablet PC manufacturers count on the advanced features and reliability of the brand to deliver a superior user interface experience.
For further information please contact:
Simon Marshall
Marketing Executive
Wacom Australia Pty Ltd.
+61 2 9422 6700