Instagram for Android sign-up page now taking names

If there’s one app that iPhone users always wave in the faces of their Android-backing rivals, it’s the hipster-friendly Instagram photography app, that adds “through-the-wash” filters and touch-up tools to be applied to your cameraphone snaps. Android users breathed a sigh of relief at SXSW earlier this month when the app’s co-founder, Kevin Systrom, revealed that the much-loved app was on its way to Google’s OS “soon”. And it now seems that “soon” is much sooner than we’d thought for.

Over the weekend Instagram launched a landing page allowing Android users to sign-up to be one of the first to test the new app when it finally arrives, suggesting the app is now approaching a full release.

No word yet as to whether signing up on the page will lead to early access for eager Android owners, or will just pop you onto a mailing list that will notify you of the apps availability, but Android photographers would do well to pop their details in either way.

Head over to the Instagram landing page by clicking here.