Although Lumia 1020 has a camera snapping photos with the 41 megapixel resolution, it was Pro Camera app that really caught our interest.
Find Jarle was employed as a journalist with Amobil.no in November 2009. He previously worked in retail Expert, where he recently was Head of Department of Telecommunications and data in one of the shops in Bergen. He has also had temporary position in itavisen.no and studied Media Studies at the University of Bergen.
Speculation has been going on forever. First was the new CEO, then switched the platform and since they have slimmed staff sharp and sold off assets. Now the news is finally official – Microsoft is about to buy Nokia’s mobile division pressed. With the bargain they get a prominent former employee and licenses on a number of patents.
When news insert into this morning, I had to look closely at both the article and the calendar. Were not we talking about a quote that lacked voice line, and there was not 1 April. Since Stephen Elop took the helm of Nokia, rumors have gone so close that “- Microsoft buys Nokia” has become a headline we no longer raises an eyebrow over.
Background: Microsoft buys Nokia (Mobilen.no)
Microsoft has not bought the name
But what does the acquisition? Firstly, not Nokia name with. It remains in fact a part of Nokia, which remain outside in sales. It is the organization that develops and sells mobile phones to consumers they will take over as the regulatory authorities have given the thumbs up to trade.
Nokia’s trademarks, Lumia and Asha, is however over.
Helsinki Stock Exchange, Nokia’s share price has risen by 47 per cent on the basis of the acquisition. Maybe not so strange. Nokia has recently become wholesaler in garbage-gradation and warnings against buying from the big banks. With Microsoft’s moneybags lurking in the wings, it is at least reasonably certain that what is left of the Nokia name does not go away in the short term.
Will US-centric?
Neither Microsoft or Nokia have said very specific things about future plans. We must assume that the work on the contract has been ongoing for some time, and we see that Nokia’s latest smartphone is on sale in the U.S. long before it comes to the Nordic countries. Earlier it used to be around.
We had been flies on the wall in the control room to say what the delayed launch of Lumia 1020 here on the rock due. There may be commercial considerations, such as increasing market share in the U.S., poor access to hardware, or it may be that Nokia all for a couple of months ago was on its way to becoming a U.S. centric company.
With this acquisition, it is at least certain that few will raise eyebrows over the future Lumia models appearing first in the United States, as Microsoft Surface products did.
An echo for Motorola
PC makers are trying desperately to carve out a market service, while gazing with concern out of a declining market for hardware. Mobile industry is going the opposite way. The marriage between Nokia and Microsoft shortly after the first fruits of the marriage between Google and Motorola. Service and software giants have now become producers of hardware.
One of the first things I did after the acquisition was to abruptly pull Motorola out of most European markets. This despite the fact that Motorola only a short time earlier had re-established themselves in many of these markets by a corresponding exit a few years earlier.
Bit Windows Phone History
When Microsoft launched Windows Phone 7 for a little over three years ago surprised the Norwegian media. The operating system had virtually nothing in common with Windows Mobile versions that came before. By all accounts, they had already spent a long time trying to assemble a successor to Windows Mobile 6.5, but scrapped the project underway, in favor of a new team, and the development of what became Windows Phone 7
I think most of us who viewed Ballmer’s presentation in Barcelona set with roughly the same emotions during the presentation. Microsoft had finally dared to think again. They had retrieved solid doses heroism, and scrapped a platform which after all had about 10 percent market share.
result was possibly more varied opinions about, but for me as the new operating system completely unheard of use and groomed out. However, some things were missing. Copy and paste was not from the start, nor multitasking.
a surprised therefore a willingness to depart from the status quo that we rarely see in this magnitude, but fails to surprise on point number two – Windows Phone had some shortcomings. They acted thankfully not about lags and clutter. Only the absence of features. It could be remedied, I thought.
Windows Phone is becoming more complex
Since then, Microsoft has updated via Windows Phone 7.5 to Windows Phone 8 More and more features have been added, but the transition to Windows Phone 8 had a number of apps put to death, or updated. The old apps were not compatible anymore, after the developers had changed the engine in the operating system.
I get the feeling that many of the additions that have come simply has not been in the spirit of the makers of Windows Phone 7 There maiden voyage was made with a clean, quick and easy operating system, the feeling of clutter and overloading of features on the way out of obscurity in Windows Phone 8
It is by no means all doom and gloom. Not yet, at least. Windows Phone is still, for the majority, the great operating Ballmer, Belfiore and Microsoft showed off a February day in Barcelona. However, some of the new additions do not work as well as the rest of the system.
way more and more music services live in the Music Hub, or the way the basic multitasking works is among these. We do not always know where we are, and we have no idea why apps that are otherwise fine in the background die without much warning.
What Nokia has added?
The subsequent time I get the impression that it is the Nokia platform that adds the most. They have great navigation services provided free with Lumia series. There is not another free or cheap navigation that is nearby. Here services are among the best you can, no matter what the platform devices.
Amber update currently deployed to the Lumia models are in large part a Nokia product. This is obviously a part that’s about hardware support, such as the radio section of most Lumia phones activated. However, here there are also basic functionality Windows Phone has lacked.
New features – in a good way
For example, Nokia has a simple and straightforward measure that shows you how much storage space is left on your phone, and how it benefits them. This is basic functionality that Android now has had a couple of generations, but Microsoft has not been added to on their own yet.
A permanent watch on screen, and the ability to wake up your phone to life with two quick taps on the screen are also examples of the basic functionality that Nokia have added.
We can also mention Pro Camera app as nearly impressed us more than the camera itself, when it was launched along with the smådrøye camera giant Lumia 1020 in New York. Have photo settings ever been easier for us surrehue not run photographers?
a paved, but …
Although it was Microsoft that laid the foundations and created a Windows Phone, it may seem as if the innovation happening in Nokia a day. Nokia’s new features have taken place as a natural part of the operating system. Parts that simply stands out because of rot or lack of usability. Simply welcome additions to the platform.
One can speculate on what Microsoft really want when they take over ownership of a mobile manufacturer in the already heavily subsidized. Microsoft can make the hardware itself. We have seen. That they get to create outstanding here when the software will we see at least every other desktop OS, and it is still clearly visible in Windows Phone 8
See also: Sneak Peek at the Nokia Lumia 1020
More Nokia Thanks
Now it is certainly part of Nokia’s businesses will continue as before. Cooperation Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) will not be copied. Map Services will only be licensed to Microsoft, and a separate department for innovation, called the Nokia Advanced Technologies, will not join.
Nokia held perhaps too long for the Symbian platform. They waited at least for a long time to modernize the after Apple more or less created the definition of “disruptive technology” with their iPhone.
Yet it seems that Nokia is in the swing on the Windows platform. I have a secret hope that the wise heads in Finland will have more to say when the Windows Phone platform will be developed further, now that it soon is Microsoft, not Nokia, on access their cards.
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