Nokia recently started rolling out the eagerly awaited Lumia Amber update to its Lumia smartphone range. The new update brings a wealth of new features and capabilities,but not all for all Lumian's.
As of now the Amber update is available for Nokia Lumia 920, Lumia 820, Lumia 720, Lumia 620, and Lumia 520 and their variants in a phased manner. Your Nokia Lumia will check periodically for software updates automatically, or you can perform a manual check by going to ‘Settings’ -> ‘Phone Update’. You can also check for the availability status of the update in our support pages. For regional information, see the ‘Availability in …’ subsections on the menu at the left of the page.
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Here are few of the coolest features of AMBER
This update will also deliver a wide range of new and improved features and apps, like Nokia Glance Screen with the standby clock and an even better imaging experience for Nokia Lumia owners.
Lumia Amber builds upon the latest update for Windows Phone 8 from Microsoft. In itself, this provides a number of significant additions: a new FM radio player and improvements to Xbox music and the Internet Explorer browser.
Improved image processing
The update brings significantly improved algorithms that offer better noise reduction, colour reproduction, exposure control and autofocus to every phone across the Lumia range. On the Lumia 920, controls to adjust the ISO settings of the camera from 800 to 3200 allow for even better low light performance.
Nokia Smart Camera
Debuted on the Nokia Lumia 925, this new camera app is ideal for taking pictures involving people and movement. Starting today, you will be able to get the app from the Store after downloading Lumia Amber to your phone.
The app brings a slew of different options – use Best Shot to find the sharpest image from a series of ten; combine several shots of people in movement into one with Action Shot; heighten the appearance of speed by blurring the background with Motion Focus; create ideal group shots by choosing the best faces from a series with Change Faces, or remove unwanted objects from your pictures.
Note that Smart Camera’s performance scales according to the capabilities of your device. On the Nokia Lumia 720, 620 and 520, the burst mode used for some effects takes seven pictures rather than ten, and these are a lower resolution than on devices with more RAM (one-megapixel rather than five). Still great for social sharing on the Web.
On top of the Lumia Amber update, the newly announced Nokia Pro Camera will be available for the Lumia 920, Lumia 925, and Lumia 928 starting today. Once you’ve taken great videos with your updated Lumia, you can edit them quickly with the Nokia Video Trimmer app and upload them to YouTube with Nokia Video Upload. Both apps will be available in the Store.
But it’s not all about pictures. The Lumia Amber software update also contains a few more, keenly awaited extras.
Nokia Glance Screen
Perhaps one of the features that has been most requested on Nokia Lumia smartphones. Nokia Glance Screen brings a clock to your screen when the phone is inactive, along with indicators to show the battery level when running on a low battery or the phone is charging, and whether your phone is set to ‘silent’.
You can activate the Nokia Glance screen in the ‘display and touch’ section in Settings by swiping left to ‘glance’. Nokia Glance screen will be available for all WP8 Lumia devices except the Nokia Lumia 520 and Lumia 625, which have a smaller display memory.
Flip to silence and double-tap to wake
Two favourite features from older Nokia phones that users have asked for. Flipping the phone over is a great and easy way to mute an incoming call. Double tapping the screen is something many people prefer to using the unlock key. Both of them are optional in case you’re worried about having accidents – in our experience, though, that never happens.
Storage Check and faster map updates
You may have already picked this up through another update. We wrote about it here. Briefly, if you’re running out of space on your phone and you want to free some up, you can find out the biggest culprits and deal with them (perhaps you never delete your photos, despite uploading them to SkyDrive, for example).
Finally, with the Lumia Amber update installed on your phone, you can update your HERE Maps even easier and faster, as only those roads and other map features that have been updated will be downloaded — you don’t have to install whole countries anew.
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