Nokia releases Glance Background beta; allows you to add awesome photos to the Glance Screen

Accept you looked at the Glance Screen on your Nokia windows Phone and wondered what it would look like if you added a background image? Nokia has released a beta app that enables you to achieve just that. Glance Groundwork is a new app for Nokia hardware that allows you to selection and choose images to have fix as a background when the Glance Screen is active.

Information technology's a simple app, but the end result is really impressive. Selecting up to iv images, the slideshow will begin when the phone is locked, rolling through checked images while the Glance Screen is active. The best role is how the backgrounds don't water downwardly the functionality of the feature, which is to conserve bombardment while displaying the fourth dimension to save y'all waking upwards the display.

When adding your ain images, a simple editor is utilised that offers basic functionality. Available effects include colorise and zoom. Thanks to the camera capabilities in the Lumia 1020, yous'll be able to zoom in on loaded photos and create some interesting backgrounds. With reports coming in that further customisation volition be present in the Bittersweet shimmer update, we'll look frontwards to run into how Nokia tin can further improve the glance Screen feel.

If you're wanting to cheque out the app and see what all the fuss is near, exist sure to download Glance Background from the Windows Telephone Shop (requires Amber update - not available for Lumia 520 or Lumia 625). Information technology'south worth noting that night manner will of course prevent the images from beingness displayed.

Update: See our hands on video tour of the app!

Source: Nokia Beta Labs; thanks to everyone for the tips!

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