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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