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you've asked a lot and now you receive I'm Taylor Martin this is PocketNow and this is a walkthrough of the official Instagram beta for Windows Phone Windows Phone users have a lot to be thankful for this November as today one of the most requested applications was officially released as a beta mind you to the public Instagram the Windows Phone store linked with live at 11:00 a.m. Pacific today for all Windows Phone 8 users and can be currently downloaded completely free of charge up until now Windows Phone users who wanted to join one of the world's most popular photo sharing platforms were forced to tread the sometimes dreadful waters of third-party clients fortunately some fully featured clients came to be in recent months such as six tag but finally receiving official support from Instagram itself is a blessing for the platform a badge of honor a symbol of acceptance amongst the two major mobile platforms we downloaded the Instagram beta as soon as it hit the store and started toying around with it and at the surface it seems much like the official client on other platforms it comes with the four main views the timeline or a feed a post from everyone you follow what's popular and trending your notifications and your profile you can fully edit your profile view all of your own uploads and change privacy settings you can see all new notifications make comments like photos and videos and even view Instagram videos inline with pictures though they will not Auto play you will need to tap to play videos and we're not complaining about that you can link up your Facebook Twitter Tumblr Flickr and Foursquare accounts and you can copy the share links for individual posts for reshoring friends photos and best of all you can receive notifications in the form of live tile updates on your home screen a feature that truly makes the most of the Windows Phone interface it is for all intents and purposes a fully featured client and despite being a little sluggish at times we're happy to report it seems to work quite well but there's a small hiccup which has caused a good bit of controversy tapping the camera icon at the bottom of the app does not take you directly to the in app camera as it does on Android or iOS we're talking about the square view finder with Instagram standard camera UI instead it Rockets you straight into your camera roll showing you all your and pictures there is no inbuilt camera function or is there from the camera roll there is another camera icon at the bottom and tapping it will flip you into an external camera application which oddly is not the stock camera app from there you can snap a quick shot and either accept or retake if accepted you can proceed to crop and reframe apply the standard filters frames and other edits and of course share the video functionality unfortunately doesn't seem to work just yet despite the capability being asterisk on the application feature details in the Windows Phone store the toggle is grayed out in the camera app and if you thought you can simply load a pre shot video from your camera roll think again video upload functionality simply does not exist yet after all this isn't the final product and it's important to remember that so far it's a great start for Instagram on a blooming platform and rather than harping on the missing features no matter how important said feature may be it's important to remember this is a beta and it's just the beginning we'll keep our eyes peeled for development on this official application but we're certainly not uninstalling 6 tag just yet oh and one last thing if you're not following pocket now on Instagram yet do it no excuses that's going to do it for this video if you enjoyed it be sure to let us know by clicking the thumbs up button below and subscribing to the channel leave a comment if you have any questions or suggestions and be sure to follow us in all the usual places twitter google+ and facebook at pocket now I'm Taylor Martin you can find me on twitter at casper tech and i will see you next time