Nov 30

Nokia outs PhotoBeamer picture-sharing app for new Lumias

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Nokia outs PhotoBeamer picture sharing app, shows where all that Scalado money went

Back in June, Nokia splashed out on a big chunk of Scalado’s imaging business, and now we’re seeing the first fruits of that costly union. The handset maker has re-launched and re-branded Scalado Photobeamer as, you guessed it — Nokia PhotoBeamer. Aside from the name change, it’s the same QR code-based seamless picture service we’ve seen before, albeit with a Windows Phone 8 twist. It works over WiFi or cellular data and is currently available from the Windows Phone Store — although it looks like it’s exclusive to just the Lumia 820 and 920 for now.

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Jul 26

BlackBerry 10 gets homespun picture editor to reduce Instagram-envy (video)

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BlackBerry 10 gets homespun picture editor to reduce Instagramenvy

BlackBerry users who routinely feel left out while friends share retro pictures of coffee and pastries on Instagram will soon have their own BB alternative. Slides released by N4BB reveal that a Scalado–powered photo editing app has been baked into BB10, which is due early next year. The software will let you tweak and enhance your casual snaps, but also offer a carousel of aged filters you can drag onto shots of your own taste-appropriate snack goods. After the break we’ve got an early hands-on with the app from the folks at Crackberry, which walks you through a non-working prototype.

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Jul 24

Nokia acquires Scalado technologies to improve its smartphone cameras

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Scalado logoIf you’re a fan of the cameras on Nokia’s smartphones, you’ll be pleased at the latest news surrounding the company. Nokia announced today that it has acquired technologies, developers and intellectual property from Scalado. With this acquisition, along with Nokia’s own imaging teams (who came up with PureView), they will be focusing on creating the best cameras for Nokia’s next generation phones. While we’re not sure what this collaboration is capable of, but it should be pretty impressive.

Nokia was the first company to manufacture a camera phone back in 2002, and was the first to release an autofocus 12-megapixel camera (Nokia N8) and earlier this year it released the 41-megapixel camera-toting Nokia 808 PureView. Perhaps a phone that’s capable of replacing DSLRs? Only time will tell.

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Jul 24

Nokia completes acquisiton of Scalado’s imaging tech and developers

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It’s taken just over a month for Nokia to get everything in place, but its now announced that around 50 “world-class imaging specialists” have joined Espoo’s already substantial mobile imaging department, alongside a stack of Scalado’s technologies and intellectual property. The imaging specialist’s co-founder, Sami Niemi, who will now head up the Capture and Relive section of Smart Devices at Nokia, said: “The technologies and competences we’ve developed should help move from taking photos to capturing memories and emotions.” (We’re sure those hulking PureView sensors will help too.) Take a look at Nokia’s brief statement on its future in mobile imaging after the break.

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