Last year, Microsoft had unveiled the Lumia
Denim update along with all the features it
would encompass. Four months on, it has
now announced that it is rolling the update
for all Windows Phone 8.1 devices.
The Lumia Denim update includes an
improved Cortana, which includes natural-
language scenarios, snooze times for
reminders, and the ability to chat with her
in your car via car-kit integration. You can
wake up the digital assistant just by saying
“Hey Cortana.” Cortana is now available in
the US, China and the UK in ‘beta’ and in
‘alpha’ in Australia, Canada India, France,
Italy, Germany and Spain.
The Nokia Camera app comes with a host
of nifty improvements, seemingly allowing
users to capture faster. Users can shoot a
picture by tapping and holding the camera
shutter, even when the phone is asleep, and
it will supposedly capture a picture in less
than 1.5 seconds. 4K video recording is
also coming with a long-press from locked
state firing up the shooter to shot a 4K
video at 24fps. What’s more the new
camera app will let you select individual
frames from within the 4K video recording
for stills. This requires either a Lumia 930,
1520 or the Lumia Icon.
Also included are something called live
images, which show a 1 second animation
before the actual still is shown. And there’s
Rich Capture, which lets you turn the flash
on or off and adjust the light intensity after
the image as been taken. So in essence it
will take an image across a range of light
conditions and you can choose to isolate
one image or merge all the results.
Also new, the Glance screen will show
updates from Bing Weather, or Bing Health
& Fitness, in addition to time and date,
notifications and application data.
While the Lumia Denim update has started
rolling out, it is currently available to a
limited number of users. It will continue
arriving in waves depending on your device
and location. Microsoft said that a wider
rollout of Lumia Denim to all Lumia
smartphones running Windows Phone 8.1
is expected to begin this month following
partner testing and approvals.
If you have got the update, here’s how you
can install it on your Lumia phone.
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