By Vijay at 2:04pm
There has been some confusion
regarding the availability of Nokia’s Glance feature, aka the on-screen clock
which I mentioned recently in my previous blog. The feature is coming to other
Lumia devices via the Amber Update, but we remember seeing rumors for
“exceptions” on specific devices pop up, revolving around screen technology
i.e. AMOLED vs LCD.
Nokia has gone now and confirmed
that the Glance is basically coming to all Windows Phone 8 Lumias except the Lumia
520 due to “hardware restrictions”. While that would have been an awesome
feature on the 520 series, evidently cutting hardware specs so low does have
some consequences for feature parity.
Still, on the bright side the Lumia
620, 720, 820 and 920 are all candidates for this feature.
Glance allows users to check the
time on their phones without having to turn on the screen. While it may seem
like a throw away feature, as it turns out we use it surprisingly often.
Current thought suggests it uses less battery life on only AMOLED displays
(Lumia 820) because it can independently turn on pixels for the backlight, as
opposed to IPS LCD, which acts like one big light bulb. Still, what that means
in real life is yet to be seen, but at least on AMOLED displays, the feature’s
effect on battery has been negligible.
Nokia’s Amber update is expected to
rollout to other Lumia devices later this August End..
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