Nokia acquires Scalado technologies to improve its smartphone cameras

By George Wong on 07/24/2012, filed in Home > CellPhones

If 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.

Follow:CellPhones Nokia scalado

Nokia: Nokia is a Finnish communications company that was the largest phone vendor (per unit) between 1988 to 2012. The company's history go back to 1871 but the Nokia that we know today (the Nokia corporation) was founded in 1967 by the merger of three Finnish companies. It is then that Nokia worked on networking equipment and was ultimately involved in the launch of the first cellular network in 1981 (Mobira Oy). Nokia because a key developer of GSM, the standard that we all know today. Although Nokia still produces a range of phones that includes entry-level handsets and Symbian smartphones, the company is counting on the Windows Phone OS to regain the share that it once had. The current flagship Windows Phone device from Nokia is the Lumia 920.

Join a great community!