Microsoft wants you to take more selfies

Kate Harloe

Kate Harloe Jul 12, 2025

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>Microsoft wants you to take more selfies</h1>
                <h2><p>Microsoft will try to exploit consumers’ obsession with selfies with its new Nokia Lumia 730 and 830 phones, which were unveiled Thursday at a conference in Berlin. The smartphones will feature wider-angle lenses so users can cram more people into a photo, and the front camera will have five megapixels,</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/kate-harloe-crosscut-com/">Kate Harloe</a></p> 
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            <p>Microsoft will try to exploit consumers’ obsession with selfies with its new Nokia Lumia 730 and 830 phones, which were u<a href="http://www.seattlepi.com/business/technology/article/Selfie-centric-phone-among-new-Microsoft-offerings-5732612.php?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org#photo-6811661">nveiled Thursday </a>at a conference in Berlin. The smartphones will feature wider-angle lenses so users can cram more people into a photo, and the front camera will have five megapixels, higher than the average two megapixels on other phones. Lumia users can also befriend a voice-command assistant, Cortana, similar to the iPhone’s Siri, which will steer them toward Bing searches and the cloud storage system, OneDrive.The mid-ranged smartphones represent the latest step Microsoft is taking as part of CEO Satya Nadella’s attempt to expand the company’s share of the smartphone and cloud computing markets. Microsoft acquired Nokia in April in effort to boost the Windows Phone System, which has struggled to compete with the iPhone and Android systems. — M.L.</p>
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Microsoft will try to exploit consumers’ obsession with selfies with its new Nokia Lumia 730 and 830 phones, which were unveiled Thursday at a conference in Berlin. The smartphones will feature wider-angle lenses so users can cram more people into a photo, and the front camera will have five megapixels, higher than the average two megapixels on other phones. Lumia users can also befriend a voice-command assistant, Cortana, similar to the iPhone’s Siri, which will steer them toward Bing searches and the cloud storage system, OneDrive.The mid-ranged smartphones represent the latest step Microsoft is taking as part of CEO Satya Nadella’s attempt to expand the company’s share of the smartphone and cloud computing markets. Microsoft acquired Nokia in April in effort to boost the Windows Phone System, which has struggled to compete with the iPhone and Android systems. — M.L.

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By Kate Harloe

Kate Harloe is Crosscut's Community Manager &amp; Editorial Assistant. After graduating from Hamilton College, Kate completed two seasons of work for the Southwest Conservation Corps before moving