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77-581: Lumia Camera (previously Nokia Camera ) originally created as a merger of the Nokia Pro Cam and Nokia Smart Cam as the new Nokia Camera application that was introduced with the Lumia Black update. The Nokia Camera as introduced in 2013 offers 3 basic modes Camera Mode , Smart Mode and Video Mode , in Smart Mode users can take multiple shots at once in what's called a burst and allows for

154-723: A circumference of 112 meters. In the same year of 1881, the Dutch marine painter Hendrik Willem Mesdag created and established the Panorama Mesdag of The Hague , Netherlands , a cylindrical painting more than 14 metres high and roughly 40 meters in diameter (120 meters in circumference). In the United States of America is the Atlanta Cyclorama , depicting the Civil War Battle of Atlanta . It

231-501: A Lumia device in the manner of a story, it integrates with Here maps to show where every individual photograph and video clip has been taken, and if its recorded on the Nokia Lumia 1520 it allows audiophiles that can capture directional stereo samples. In September 2015 Microsoft announced that they would discontinue Lumia Storyteller and its associated online service on October 30, 2015 as some of its features would be implemented in

308-1444: A combination of firmware and software updates. The latter of these include imaging improvements, new technology support, feature updates, and bug fixes. Because Lumia devices exclusively use Windows Phone, major operating system updates are often bundled with the firmware updates upon release. Similar to how Windows Phones receive operating system updates , Lumia update releases are dependent on carriers who decide if and when devices are to receive them. However, operating system updates are not subject to these constraints if users are part of Microsoft's Windows Insider or Preview for Developers programs. Lumia Amber 15 August 2013 Windows Phone 8 Update 2 ( GDR2 ) Default version for Nokia Lumia 625, 925, 928 and 1020 devices, developed by Nokia 9 January 2014 Windows Phone 8 Update 3 ( GDR3 ) Default version for Nokia Lumia 525, 1320 and 1520 devices, developed by Nokia 15 July 2014 Windows Phone 8.1 Default version for Nokia Lumia 521, 530, 630, 635, 636, 638 and 930 devices, developed by Microsoft 4 September 2014 Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1 ( GDR1 ) Windows Phone 8.1 Update 2 ( GDR2 ) Default version for Nokia Lumia 730, 735 and 830 and Microsoft Lumia 430, 435, 532 and 535 devices with Windows¨Phone 8.1 Update 1; default version for Microsoft Lumia 540, 640 and 640 XL devices with Windows Phone 8.1 Update 2; developed by Microsoft All devices in

385-631: A different update called Windows Phone 7.8. Later in September 2012, Nokia unveiled the Lumia 820 and the Lumia 920 , its first two devices to use Windows Phone 8. Both featured NFC , with the Lumia 820 embedding a microSD card slot, and an optional Wireless Charging Shell for Qi wireless charging . The Lumia 920 also notably featured Qi wireless charging, and a " PureView " camera with optical image stabilization . While Nokia received criticism when it

462-485: A major business partnership between Nokia and Microsoft, which would see Nokia adopt Windows Phone as its primary platform on future smartphones, replacing both Symbian and MeeGo . The deal also included the integration of Bing as the search engine on Nokia devices, and the integration of Nokia Maps into Microsoft's own mapping services . Nokia had planned to use the MeeGo platform as part of its future plans prior to

539-604: A means of generating an immersive " panoptic " experience of a vista . Cartographic experiments during the Enlightenment era preceded European panorama painting and contributed to a formative impulse toward panoramic vision and depiction. This novel perspective was quickly conveyed to America by Benjamin Franklin who was present for the first manned balloon flight by the Montgolfier brothers in 1783, and by

616-431: A painting, shown on a cylindrical surface and viewed from the inside, giving viewers a vantage point encompassing the entire circle of the horizon, rendering the original scene with high fidelity. The inaugural exhibition, a "View of Edinburgh" (specifically the view from the summit of Calton Hill ), was first shown in that city in 1788, then transported to London in 1789. By 1793, Barker had built "The Panorama" rotunda at

693-509: A part of the change of ownership, the social network pages have also been rebranded as Microsoft Lumia rather than Microsoft Mobile; this sought to emphasize the Windows Phone over other Nokia mobile phones while also updating social network pages of Windows Phone to the new Microsoft Lumia branding. To reflect this change, Nokia Conversations was also rebranded as Lumia Conversations , and NokNok.tv to Lumia Conversations UK. However,

770-408: A photo by using a lens for the camera app that takes a number of photos in quick succession then it allows users to select "the best" moments from each individual image, Smart Shoot can select faces from various succeeding images so if one person blinks during a single shot and doesn't blink during the next and let the user choose the faces they prefer for the picture. Smart Shoot can be launched through

847-467: A post by a Microsoft Twitter account stated that all Nokia and Microsoft Lumia smartphones running Windows Phone 8 and 8.1 would receive updates to Windows 10 ; however, following the official unveiling, Microsoft denied this, stating that they instead were targeting the "majority" of Lumia phones and that not all phones would receive the update or support all of its features. Later, Microsoft confirmed that low-end devices with 512 MB of RAM (including

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924-464: A result of the growing use of touchscreen smartphones from other vendors, such as Apple 's iPhone line and Android -based products. In 2010, its market share had declined to 28%, and in April 2012, Samsung Electronics (a prominent user of Android) ultimately overtook Nokia as the largest mobile phone vendor in the world. Nokia's CEO Stephen Elop vetoed the idea of producing Android devices, believing

1001-492: A total of 25 content slots), pan-and-zoom, and offers various filters and themes, some of the themes and filters include DreamWorks ' Kung-Fu Panda and Madagascar movies. It offers compatibility with content created on other devices, though it should first be moved to the device on which Movie Creator is installed before these can be edited. In April 2015 Movie Creator Beta got Microsoft OneDrive and 4K video support. Microsoft Photos Add-ins (previously called Lumia Moments )

1078-641: A variety of constructions can be used to make panoramic images. A popular design is the "oatmeal box", a vertical cylindrical container in which the pinhole is made in one side and the film or photographic paper is wrapped around the inside wall opposite, and extending almost right to the edge of, the pinhole. This generates an egg-shaped image with more than 180° view. Popular in the 1970s and 1980s, but now superseded by digital presentation software, Multi-image (also known as multi-image slide presentations, slide shows or diaporamas) 35mm slide projections onto one or more screens characteristically lent themselves to

1155-680: Is a DLNA -based application, it allows users to share media across devices. It was originally debuted on Symbian handsets and was introduced in the Nokia Beta Labs in 2012 for Lumia handsets. Lumia Refocus (previously Nokia Refocus ) was revealed at the Nokia World event in Abu Dhabi in 2013 exclusive to Lumia devices with Nokia PureView capabilities, it featured the ability to alter the focus of pictures after you've already taken them, when launched it started up in camera mode and

1232-542: Is a Lumia Denim enabled feature that can take frames from videos and turn them into individual pictures, due to the processing power it requires, only the Nokia Lumia ICON , Nokia Lumia 1520 , Nokia Lumia 830 , and Nokia Lumia 930 devices can run the software as the Lumia Imaging SDK integrates with newer Qualcomm Snapdragon processors. Lumia Moments has 2 types of images that it can create, one

1309-420: Is a " selfie "-based application that can use both the front and the main camera, it offers facial recognition (but has trouble recognising faces wearing eyeglasses) and can edit "selfies" by giving the user a bigger smile, whiter teeth, enlarge their eyes, change colour, and make the picture brighter or less bright. In August 2015 Microsoft added support for selfie sticks . Lumia Share (previously Nokia Share )

1386-602: Is a photo synchronisation application for Windows and Windows Phone designed to connect Nokia Lumia smartphone to the Nokia Lumia 2520 , it shares photos through the Lumia Storyteller app and needs to connect over WiFi, it works exclusively with the Nokia Lumia 2520 and doesn't work with any other Microsoft Windows device. Lumia Storyteller (previously Nokia Storyteller ) was a scrapbooking app Windows and Windows Phone that displays photos and videos taken on

1463-404: Is a video editing application that enables trimming, slowing down footage, brightening the video's colours, adding music to frames, applying filters, rotating, cropping and sharing directly shared to Instagram . The software integrates with the Lumia Imaging SDK that enables developers to create similar editing software in their own applications. Lumia Black Microsoft Lumia (previously

1540-486: Is able to do analyses between the scenes and takes between two and eight photos that allows the user to refocus it afterwards, furthermore it has social network sharing built in. In September 2015 Microsoft announced that they would discontinue the online service related to Lumia Refocus on October 30, 2015 and will remove the application from the Windows Phone Store. Lumia Selfie (previously Nokia Glam Me )

1617-499: Is derived from panorama . A panoramic view is also purposed for multimedia, cross-scale applications to an outline overview (from a distance) along and across repositories. This so-called "cognitive panorama" is a panoramic view over, and a combination of, cognitive spaces used to capture the larger scale. The device of the panorama existed in painting, particularly in murals , as early as 20 A.D., in those found in Pompeii , as

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1694-554: Is derived from the partitive plural form of the Finnish word lumi , meaning "snow". On 3 September 2013, Microsoft announced its purchase of Nokia's mobile device business, with the deal closing on 25 April 2014. As a result, the Lumia line's maintenance was transferred to Microsoft Mobile. As part of the transition, Microsoft continued to use the Nokia brand on Lumia devices until October 2014, when it began to officially phase out

1771-619: Is the Best Frame which saves a photo as a "living image" and can be viewed in motion from Windows Phone's camera roll or Lumia Storyteller, and the other is Action Shots that lets users add strobe effects and blur the pictures. With Windows 10 Mobile Microsoft decided to quietly rebranded the Lumia Moments application, the removal of the Lumia branding happened at the same time as the discontinuation of several Lumia imaging applications. PhotoBeamer (previously Nokia PhotoBeamer )

1848-629: The Chinese market . Graph of quarterly global sales (million units) Panorama A panorama (formed from Greek πᾶν "all" + ὅραμα "view") is any wide-angle view or representation of a physical space, whether in painting , drawing , photography , film , seismic images , or 3D modeling . The word was coined in the 18th century by the English ( Irish descent ) painter Robert Barker to describe his panoramic paintings of Edinburgh and London . The motion-picture term panning

1925-650: The Lumia 610 , a new entry-level device taking advantage of the lower system requirements introduced by Windows Phone 7's "Tango" update. These new low-end devices were intended to improve Windows Phone adoption in emerging markets such as China . In June 2012, both Nokia and Microsoft received much criticism after it was revealed that the Windows Phone 7 Lumia devices will not be upgradable to Microsoft's second generation Windows Phone platform, Windows Phone 8 . It has been said that those devices won't be upgraded because Windows Phone 8 uses an entirely different kernel ( Windows NT ). The original Lumia range instead received

2002-442: The Lumia 650 , which also runs Windows 10 Mobile, was launched. Sales of Lumia devices declined between fiscal years 2015 and 2016, with phone revenue decreasing by $ 4.2 billion or 56%. When Microsoft announced the acquisition in September 2013, 7.3 million devices were sold in the quarter, but this shrunk to 1.2 million at the quarter ending June 2016. Since the Lumia series make up 95% of total Windows Phone/Windows 10 Mobile sales,

2079-418: The Lumia 925 , a revised version of the 920 with a slimmer build incorporating aluminium, and the Lumia 1020 , which features a 41-megapixel camera based on technology from its Symbian-based 808 PureView . On 22 October 2013, Nokia extended the Lumia brand into the tablet market with the unveiling of the Lumia 2520 ; running Microsoft's Windows RT operating system, it was the company's first tablet since

2156-740: The Lumia Cinemagraph Beta which migrated content from Nokia's website to Microsoft OneDrive and subsequently implemented this feature in Lumia Cinemagraph. Previously cinemagraphs used to be synchronized via the Nokia Memories site. Lumia Creative Studio (previously Nokia Creative Studio ) is an imaging editing application that lets users edit photographs and merge them into panoramas, apply after effects with photo filters such as sketching, night vision, dreamy, cartoon, colour and silkscreen. The Nokia Creative Studio

2233-582: The Nokia 6 , in January 2017. Even after the acquisition of Nokia's mobile device business by Microsoft, several Lumia devices were unveiled by Microsoft Mobile in September 2014 that still carried the Nokia name, including the Lumia 830 and Lumia 735 . In July 2014, it had been reported by evleaks that Microsoft was attempting to license the Nokia name in a co-branding scheme, which would have possibly seen future devices branded as "Nokia by Microsoft". As

2310-462: The Nokia Internet tablet range. Some critics believed that the usage of Windows RT rather than full Microsoft Windows 8.1 led to bad sales, as most major Windows tablet makers have used Windows 8.1 in favour of Windows RT. Alternatively, others have claimed that the device's failure was due to its heavy weight and high price. Lumia 2520 was discontinued in early 2015. Although sales of

2387-525: The Nokia Lumia ) is a discontinued line of mobile devices that was originally designed and marketed by Nokia and later by Microsoft Mobile . Introduced in November 2011, the line was the result of a long-term partnership between Nokia and Microsoft —as such, Lumia smartphones run on Microsoft software, the Windows Phone operating system; and later the newer Windows 10 Mobile . The Lumia name

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2464-506: The Nokia Lumia 520 , which represents 24.5% of all Windows Phone devices sold), would also get the Windows 10 upgrade, but reaffirmed that not all of its features would be supported on these devices. Additionally, Microsoft stated on January 16, 2015, that low-end Windows Phone 8.1 phones will not get some Lumia Denim features. In July 2015, Bloomberg reported that Microsoft had a planned restructuring of Microsoft Mobile, which includes

2541-672: The Panoscan allows the capture of high resolution panoramic images and eliminates the need for image stitching , but immersive "spherical" panorama movies (that incorporate a full 180° vertical viewing angle as well as 360° around) must be made by stitching multiple images. Stitching images together can be used to create extremely high resolution gigapixel panoramic images. On rare occasions, 360° panoramic movies have been constructed for specially designed display spaces—typically at theme parks , world's fairs , and museums. Starting in 1955, Disney has created 360° theaters for its parks and

2618-530: The Swiss Transport Museum in Lucerne, Switzerland, features a theatre that is a large cylindrical space with an arrangement of screens whose bottom is several metres above the floor. Panoramic systems that are less than 360° around also exist. For example, Cinerama used a very wide curved screen, with three synchronized projectors, and IMAX Dome / OMNIMAX movies are projected on a dome above

2695-526: The American-born physician, John Jeffries who had joined French aeronaut Jean Pierre Blanchard on flights over England and the first aerial crossing of the English Channel in 1785. In the mid-19th century, panoramic paintings and models became a very popular way to represent landscapes , topographic views and historical events . Audiences of Europe in this period were thrilled by

2772-564: The Lumia Camera UI has been transferred to HMD Global , and it was introduced as part of Nokia Pro Camera in February 2018. Lumia Cinemagraph (earlier Nokia Cinemagraph ) is an application and Windows Phone camera lens formerly by Nokia and now by Microsoft , which is bundled with its Lumia Windows Phone smartphones. Nokia Cinemagraph was originally based on technology from the Nokia acquisition of Scalado . The software enables

2849-510: The Lumia line did not affect sales, though some critics believed that it might negatively influence consumers' decisions due to Nokia's established reputation for durability compared to the relative infancy of Microsoft's brand in the consumer phone space. The Nokia Lumia 638 was the last Lumia product to bear the Nokia brand, and was only released in India in December 2014. In November 2014,

2926-405: The Lumia line had exceeded those of BlackBerry in the same period, Nokia still made an operating loss of €115m, with revenues falling 24% to €5.7bn following the second quarter of 2013. Over the past nine quarters, Nokia sustained €4.1 billion worth of operating losses. In Q3 2013, Lumia sales hit 8.8 million worldwide; over three times higher than the same period the year before; and double

3003-523: The Lumia line were smartphones (including one tablet computer ) running Microsoft Windows software. All the smartphones were full-touch in a candybar form. There were no QWERTY devices, although there were reports in 2012 that Nokia was working on such device similar to the Nokia Eseries . An alleged prototype device with full keyboard was leaked in 2017. The first digit (or the first two digits for devices with four-digit model numbers) indicates

3080-661: The Microsoft Lumia range. This would reportedly include a write down of approximately US$ 7.6 billion on the acquisition of Nokia's mobile phone business and a layoff of around 7,200 employees. It was also reported that Microsoft would release fewer first-party devices each year. As part of a larger restructuring, the Microsoft Devices & Studios engineering group was merged with the Operating Systems Engineering Group to form

3157-400: The Nokia name in its promotion and production of smartphones in favor of Microsoft branding. In November 2014, Microsoft announced the first Microsoft (non-Nokia) branded Lumia device, the Lumia 535 . In October 2015, Microsoft announced the first Lumia devices running on Windows 10 Mobile , the Lumia 950 , Lumia 950 XL and Lumia 550 . The most recent Lumia smartphone, the Lumia 650 ,

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3234-506: The PhotoBeamer site will show a QR Code that asks the user to scan it with Bing Vision and download the application from the Windows Phone Store. In September 2015 Microsoft announced that they would discontinue the PhotoBeamer application and its associated web page as they would integrate some of its features in Windows 10. Smart Shoot (previously Nokia Smart Shoot ) is a camera application which lets users capture selected parts of

3311-416: The U.S. carrier AT&T for an LTE -enabled device, Nokia quickly developed the Lumia 900 as a follow-up, first unveiled at the 2012 International CES . The Lumia 900 received heavy promotion by the carrier as a flagship device , but its launch was dampened by a software bug that prevented the device from connecting to certain mobile data networks, forcing AT&T to issue credits to those who purchased

3388-780: The Windows 10 Photos app. Lumia Video Trimmer (previously Nokia Video Trimmer ) is a video editing application originally launched by Nokia , it allows users to edit and share videos recorded on their Lumia devices. Movie Creator Beta (previously Nokia Video Director though the Nokia Video Director application is still published in the Windows Phone Store as a separate client) is a video creation application launched by Microsoft Mobile in 2014 for Windows and Windows Phone, it allows users to merge photographs, video clips, music samples and text into movies. It features unlimited video length (though it's limited by

3465-419: The announcement, although the company announced that it would still release one MeeGo device in 2011. Aligning with Microsoft had been considered a possibility by analysts due to Elop's prior employment with the company. Nokia unveiled its first Windows Phone 7 -based devices, the mid-range Lumia 710 and high-end Lumia 800 , on 26 October 2011 at its Nokia World conference. Motivated by requests from

3542-468: The application picker or via the Microsoft Camera's lenses, when attempting to take a shot the app will enquire the user to hold the phone steady, if the picture is correctly taken users may remove objects and people from the photograph. Video Uploader (previously Nokia Video Upload ) was a YouTube -based video uploader that let Lumia users upload their videos to Google's YouTube, initially it

3619-516: The aspect of illusion, immersed in a winding 360-degree panorama and given the impression of standing in a new environment. The panorama was a 360-degree visual medium patented under the title  Apparatus for Exhibiting Pictures by the artist Robert Barker in 1787. The earliest that the word "panorama" appeared in print was on June 11, 1791, in the British newspaper The Morning Chronicle , referring to this visual spectacle. Barker created

3696-489: The aspect ratio. Lumia Panorama (previously Nokia Panorama ) was a Lumia app that originated on Symbian and MeeGo , it allows users to make panoramas in both portrait and landscape mode and allows users to directly share them on the Facebook and Twitter. In September 2015 Microsoft announced that they would no longer release updates or support for Lumia Panorama. Lumia Play To (previously Nokia Play To and Play To )

3773-715: The cancelled Lumia "McLaren" ). On 13 September 2013, the New York Times writer Nick Wingfield revealed that Nokia had been testing the Android operating system on its Lumia hardware. It was one of two known Android projects at the company; the other was running the OS on low–end Asha hardware, which resulted in the Nokia X family of devices. Despite the testing, the Android-based Lumia handsets were never released and only altered Asha devices were brought to

3850-492: The center of London's entertainment district in Leicester Square , where it remained attracting visitors for 70 years, then closing in 1863, before being converted into the church of Notre Dame de France . Inventor Sir Francis Ronalds developed a machine to remove errors in perspective that were created when a sequence of planar sketches was combined into a cylinder. It also projected the cylindrical drawing onto

3927-462: The company wouldn't be able to suitably differentiate its Android products from that of other vendors. In an employee memo, Elop infamously described the company as being on a "burning platform", blaming the "war of ecosystems " between iOS and Android as part of Nokia's overall struggle, and asserting that the company needed to make major changes to its operation. In February 2011, Stephen Elop and Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer jointly announced

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4004-441: The creation of subtle animated GIFs (or cinemagraphs ) from images, which can contain stationary and moving components in the same picture. Despite saving files as GIFs, they're exported as regular JPG files and shared Lumia cinemagraphs can not be viewed on other devices. It was renamed to Lumia cinemagraph after the acquisition of Nokia's Devices and Services units by Microsoft in 2014. The Lumia Beta Apps division launched

4081-651: The deal, which closed in early 2014. While Microsoft will license the Nokia name under a 10-year agreement, the company will only be able to use it on feature phones : those running the Series 30 , Series 30+ and the Series 40 mobile operating systems based on Java ME and MediaTek technology, respectively. These changes resulted in future Lumia models being first-party hardware produced by Microsoft. Codenames for Lumia phones developed from late 2013 were based on James Bond movies, including "Moneypenny" (which became Nokia Lumia 630 ) and "Goldfinger" (which would be

4158-400: The device's family, with larger numbers generally denoting a higher-end device. Under Nokia, numbers larger than 10 indicated a phablet (e.g. 1320 , 1520 ) or tablet ( 2520 ). Following the sale of the Lumia line to Microsoft, four-digit model numbers were discontinued, with larger models instead being denoted by an "XL" suffix (e.g. 950 XL ). The second digit indicates the generation of

4235-432: The device, based on the operating system it originally shipped with: The third digit is used to distinguish between variants in the same family and generation. 0 indicates the base model, while other numbers indicate either a minor upgrade (e.g. 920 and 925 ), a 4G-capable variant (e.g. 730 and 735 ) or a regional or carrier-specific variant. An optional "C" or "T" suffix indicates a variant produced exclusively for

4312-465: The device. Upon its launch in April 2012, the Lumia 900 was listed as a top seller on Amazon.com , but online sales began to taper off by May. While not revealing further details, a Nokia representative stated that the company was "pleased with the consumer reaction, as well as the support we have received from AT&T", while AT&T's mobility chief Ralph de la Vega stated that the Lumia 900 had "exceeded expectations". In early 2012, Nokia released

4389-593: The figure in North America compared to the previous quarter. At the same time, overall Windows Phone market share hit double figures in several countries in Europe and other regions. On 3 September 2013, Microsoft announced its intent to acquire Nokia's mobile phone business (including rights to the Lumia and low-end Asha brands) in an overall deal of over US $ 7bn. Stephen Elop stepped down as Nokia's CEO and returned to Microsoft as its head of devices as part of

4466-518: The larger Windows & Devices Engineering Group. In July 2015, it was announced that the head of Surface , Panos Panay, would head the new Microsoft devices unit, which would include the Microsoft Lumia as well as various other Microsoft hardware products such as the Band , HoloLens , and Xbox . In October 2015, Microsoft launched the first Lumia devices running on Windows 10 Mobile : the Lumia 950 , Lumia 950 XL and Lumia 550 . In February 2016,

4543-470: The latest devices in December 2019. The Lumia 650 was Lumia's last device, although Lumia 750 and 850/650XL were at the last steps before production at the time but ultimately were cancelled. The Lumia 950 was Microsoft Mobile's last Lumia flagship and the last Windows Phone flagship device. A supposed successor called Microsoft Lumia 960 (codenamed Northstar ) was reportedly canceled while being in its prototype tests level. The next Microsoft phone release

4620-537: The market. In July 2014, Microsoft announced that it would discontinue the majority of its Nokia-branded devices, including the Asha, S30, S40, and X platforms, in favor of low-cost Lumia devices inheriting their design. This left S30+ as Microsoft's only remaining Nokia-branded phone platform until it was sold to HMD Global in May 2016, who, the following February, would announce the first Nokia-branded true Android phone,

4697-497: The most common method for creating wide views. Not long after the introduction of the Daguerreotype in 1839, photographers began assembling multiple images of a view into a single wide image. In the late 19th century, flexible film enabled the construction of panoramic cameras using curved film holders and clockwork drives to rotate the lens in an arc and thus scan an image encompassing almost 180 degrees. Pinhole cameras of

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4774-560: The nature of these features they haven't been made available for cheaper and older Lumia devices and are exclusive to newer handsets. In August 2015 it was reported that the Lumia Camera was no longer an exclusive application to Nokia and Microsoft Lumia devices and could be downloaded on other Windows Phone devices, but would lack several features such as High Dynamic Range (HDR), Dynamic Exposure, and Dynamic Flash which were more bound to Lumia hardware than software. The ownership of

4851-690: The operating system market share also shrunk along with it. Throughout 2016 Microsoft slowed down production volumes of Lumia devices, and it was speculated that the series would be discontinued by the end of 2016. Shortly after the discontinuation of the Elite X3 , HP's attempt to bring Windows 10 Mobile to a niche market, Microsoft's corporate vice president Joe Belfiore confirmed that Microsoft would no longer sell or manufacture new mobile devices. The existing devices would receive bug fixes and security updates only. Nokia and Microsoft Mobile have released several updates unique to Lumia devices which feature

4928-536: The panorama format. A vertical panorama or vertorama is a panorama with an upright orientation instead of a horizontal. It is created using the same techniques as when making a horizontal panorama. Digital photography of the late twentieth century greatly simplified this assembly process, which is now known as image stitching . Such stitched images may even be fashioned into forms of virtual reality movies, using technologies such as QuickTime VR , Flash , Java , or even JavaScript . A rotating line camera such as

5005-933: The performance of the application. With Lumia Denim Microsoft rebranded the application to the Lumia Camera and launched version 5.0 which included a lot of new features, but was limited to high end Lumia devices with PureView technology only, alongside the launch of the Lumia Camera the Lumia Beta Apps' Nokia Camera Beta app was rebranded as the Lumia Camera Classic for the Nokia Lumia 830, Nokia Lumia 930, Nokia Lumia ICON, and Nokia Lumia 1520. The Lumia Camera 5.0 included new feature additions such as faster shooting capabilities, 4K-quality video recording which captures 24 frames per second and each individual frame consists of an 8.3 megapixel shot and Rich Capture that adds Auto HDR and Dynamic Flash. Due to

5082-634: The rebranding has not been consistent, as the Nokia Army was renamed the Spartan Nation and the support site for legacy phones, accessories, various Nokia-branded devices, and services, originally Nokia Discussions, was renamed the Microsoft Mobile Community. The Lumia Beamer was the last Lumia-branded application to have its URL changed from Nokia to Lumia, signifying the end of the transitional term during which Microsoft

5159-502: The removal of objects within the frames, change faces and create "sequence shots". The Camera Mode features a Night and a Sports mode, and Video Mode offers video recording. Due to the high end specs of the Nokia Lumia 1020 and the Nokia Lumia 1520 they received Raw DNG support. With Lumia Cyan Nokia improved the low-light performances of the Nokia Camera, added continuous autofocus, added support for living images, and has improved

5236-559: The wall of the rotunda at much larger scale to enable its accurate painting. The apparatus was exhibited at the Royal Polytechnic Institution in the early 1840s. Large scale installations enhance the illusion for an audience of being surrounded with a real landscape. The Bourbaki Panorama in Lucerne , Switzerland was created by Edouard Castres in 1881. The painting measures about 10 metres in height with

5313-408: The wide screen panorama. They could run autonomously with silent synchronization pulses to control projector advance and fades, recorded beside an audio voice-over or music track . Precisely overlapping slides placed in slide mounts with soft-edge density masks would merge seamlessly on the screen to create the panorama. Cutting and dissolving between sequential images generated animation effects in

5390-455: Was allowed to use Nokia.com and related sites. However, in October 2014, Microsoft officially announced that it would phase out the Nokia brand in its promotion and production of Lumia smartphones, and that future Lumia models would be branded solely with the name and logo of Microsoft. In November 2014, Microsoft announced its first self-branded phone, Microsoft Lumia 535 . Rebranding

5467-418: Was an imaging application originally created by Scalado and ported to Windows Phone after the Nokia acquisition, it lets users an image from their Lumia device on any display as long as it's connected to the internet, when beamed the application will ask the user to go to the PhotoBeamer application on the other internet-capable device (including other mobile telephones, tablets, notebooks, and smart televisions).

5544-667: Was announced by Microsoft on 15 February 2016. Sales decreased sharply after the introduction of Windows 10 in 2015 and Microsoft briefly stopped selling Lumia devices from the Microsoft Store at the end of 2016 —by which time sales were estimated to have dropped below one million units —although availability was restored at the beginning of 2017. In October 2017, Microsoft's corporate vice president, Joe Belfiore , confirmed that Microsoft would no longer sell or manufacture new Windows 10 Mobile devices. The existing devices would receive bug fixes and security updates only, ending for

5621-734: Was first displayed in 1887, and is 42 feet high by 358 feet circumference (13 × 109 metres). Also on a gigantic scale, and still extant, is the Racławice Panorama (1893) located in Wrocław , Poland , which measures 15 × 120 metres. In addition to these historical examples, there have been panoramas painted and installed in modern times; prominent among these is the Velaslavasay Panorama in Los Angeles, California (2004). Panoramic photography soon came to displace painting as

5698-752: Was later updated to let users edit and create new photographs directly using the built-in camera, and added cropping, adjusting, and Instagram -like effects, additional features include face warps and live styles these filters let users edit the viewfinder in near real-time. Images created using the Lumia Creative Studio can be shared on various social networks like Twitter , Flickr , and the Facebook . Nokia Creative Studio 6 introduced non-destructive editing which allows users to work and rework images an unlimited number of times, more features added in version 6 include rotation, straightening, and changing

5775-476: Was only launched for the Nokia Lumia 1020 but got expanded to additional devices. In September 2015 Microsoft announced that they would no longer update nor support the Video Upload application, but that people who had previously downloaded the application could still use it as they always had but that it would immediately be removed from the Windows Phone Store. Video Tuner (previously Nokia Video Tuner )

5852-429: Was revealed that a demonstration video of its image stabilization technology was, in fact, filmed using a professional camera, the Lumia 920 was a commercial success for the company. At MWC 2013, Nokia introduced two more Windows Phone 8 devices: the mid-range Nokia Lumia 720 and the budget Nokia Lumia 520 , the latter of which has become the highest selling Windows phone device ever. In 2013, Nokia also introduced

5929-595: Was the Microsoft Surface Duo , while a Windows Phone-powered Surface Neo foldable tablet was cancelled too a few years later, after its introduction. The last smartphone from Microsoft was the Surface Duo 2 , which marked the demise of Microsoft Mobile. From 1998 to 2012, Nokia was the largest vendor of mobile phones in the world, which included early smartphones built on its Symbian platform. However, in recent years, its market share declined as

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