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Apple hires Nokia's phone camera lead

Nokia's Lumia series photography lead, Ari Partinen, today announced on Twitter that he has quit his job at Microsoft and will be joining Apple's team in Cupertino, California in June.

Partinen is one of the figures behind Nokia's revolutionary oversampling technology, first introduced in Nokia Pureview 808 and later brought to Windows Phone-era in form of Nokia Lumia 1020.



Superb camera and imaging features have been among few strong marketing claims in Microsoft's attempt to grow its marketshare as it lags far behind Android and iOS, and so losing Partinen is going to be a big blow to Microsoft's camera division -- and a huge win for Apple.

Here's Partinen's original tweet:

Today will be my last day working for the amazing #Lumia family. In June I will start a new chapter in Cupertino, California. Much love!

-- Ari Partinen (@Partinen) May 9, 2014

Written by: Petteri Pyyny @ 9 May 2014 6:48

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• 6 comments

• Dragon3000

  No love at all.
  

  ZX Spectrum 128K

  9.5.2014 07:52 #1

• voyager

  yeah,not love at all.

  9.5.2014 18:38 #2

• Ripper

  iPhone 6 - now with 99x10^6 megapixel camera!
  

  
  

  9.5.2014 19:35 #3

• voyager

  Nokia Lumia 1020 41 Mpixels.

  9.5.2014 22:49 #4

• ddp

  i can see some patent lawsuits forth comming in the future because of this.
  

  10.5.2014 12:07 #5

• KillerBug

  Originally posted by ddp: i can see some patent lawsuits forth comming in the future because of this. Yup...Apple will sue microsoft for "copying" their infringing devices.
  

  
  

  11.5.2014 02:38 #6