Glance Background - (Nokia Lab Beta App)

 By: Unknown    19:22  720, amber, app, Glance, glance screen, lumia, lumia 920, lumia 925, lumia 928, microsoft, Nokia, update, WP, WP8   No comments

Do you have Amber updated installed on your Lumia 925/920/1020/820/720/620.?

Do you use Glance on your phone and love the clock appearing when the screen is in sleep mode?

Well, then you will love this amazing Glance Background Beta app from Nokia Lab. It customizes the Glance screen on your Lumia with a personalized background image.  Choose from several preloaded images or create your own.

Key features

• Select up to four images to rotate as your Glance background
• Choose from several high-quality preloaded images
• Create new backgrounds from your own pictures
• Optimize your images with a simple editor (preset effects, colorize, zoom)
• Save modified images for later use

 

Known limitations and issues:

• This application requires the Lumia Amber software update.
• This app will not work with Nokia Lumia 520 or Nokia Lumia 625 since they don't support Glance screen
• This app is initially only available in English
• On the Nokia Lumia 920, Nokia Lumia 720, and Nokia Lumia 620, you may observe flicker especially with images containing large areas of bright colours
• Settings >> glance needs to be on for backgrounds to appear
• Glance Background will increase your overall power consumption. This will vary from one device model to another due to the display size, technology and nature of the selected image.
• This beta release of Glance Background is offered as a standalone app to allow for easier installation (and removal).  Combining these features into Settings is a longer-term possibility and depends on the results of this beta trial among other things.

You can login to Nokia beta site and download the app. Link is here

The Direct link for the app is here   & QR Code is down below.

Please let us know your feedback about the app in the comment section.

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Nokia sWiPe -Notification Center concept app!

 By: Unknown    03:06  app, concept, glance screen, nokia swipe, windows phone   2 comments

Nokia sWiPe is an app which brings the swipe to the left notification center concept real.

The app starts with a demo glance screen which features 'Tap to awake'. This feature has been included in GDR2 update which all Windows Phone users will receive shortly. At the lock screen you have four choices 

1. Swiping up opens the notification center. But the notification center is different as it uses the live tiles itself for displaying notifications sequentially.
2. Swiping right takes you to the start screen.
3. Swipe to left for multitasking page. The multitasking page has close buttons for all windows which allows users to close the app without opening them. We liked the multitasking page and we want the close buttons to come in the next update. 
4. Swipe down for kid's corner

The main features of the app are :-

• Glance screen- Try the glance screen and 'Tap to awake' feature  before the GDR2 release.
• Multitasking Page 
• If you are a developer you can contact the developers of the app for promotion of your app and your app will be displayed in the app.
• Notification center looks nice. But the live tile should have been changed!

Let's hope that Nokia and Windows team would take these apps seriously as a feedback!

The app is currently at the first version. So you may experience some bugs. Let us know if you are having any trouble using the app .

The app is available at Windows Phone Store for free download.Try it out!

Or scan the QR code below to download:

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