Partnership rekindled: Future Nokia smartphones will feature Zeiss optics thanks to a long-term collab

Renowned optical systems manufacturer Zeiss and Nokia just stroke a deal with HMD Global that will lead to a hopefully fruitful collaboration between the two companies and will endow future Nokia smartphones with Zeiss cameras, imaging technology, and decades' worth of photography knowhow.

The new long-term agreement is sort of rekindling the collaboration between Zeiss and Nokia from more than a decade ago, which was the culprit for the camera prowess of the N-series of smartphones, the PureView lineup of Windows-running handsets, most notably the Nokia Lumia 1020.

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