Nokia's exclusive partnership ends as Sony starts using ZEISS optics for Xperia phones

Along with the three new smartphones revealed this month, Sony announced a partnership with ZEISS, the optics company that's making lenses for smartphones among other things. Of course, that's a great thing for Xperia fans, but the implications of the announcement run a bit deeper than that.

As some of you probably know already, some of the Nokia flagships are using the ZEISS optics as well, or at least the cameras and software includes on these devices have been calibrated by the German company.

HMD Global, the company behind the Nokia phones, an “exclusive partnership” that allowed ...