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Lumia 930 in Middle East, Latin America, Asia & European markets getting Lumia Denim now as wider roll-out teased again

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 Microsoft has yet again started teasing about wider Lumia Denim update roll-out this month on Lumia Conversations blog. As per the blog,  A wider rollout of Lumia Denim to all Lumia smartphones running Windows Phone 8.1 is expected to begin this month following partner testing and approvals.  But it seems Lumia 930 devices in Middle East markets like Oman, Qatar, UAE and more are already receiving Lumia Denim. Earlier Lumia 520, Lumia 525, Lumia 620, Lumia 720 and Lumia 1320 were marked as receiving the Lumia Denim update in Bahrain, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and other markets.  In Europe too, Lumia 930 is marked to receive Lumia Denim in more markets now. Lumia 930 in Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Norway, Denmark etc were earlier marked as getting Lumia Denim. Italy, Checz Republic, Hungary etc join the party now.  In APAC, Lumia 930 in Hong Kong and Taiwan is also receiving Lumia D...

Lumia Denim–will we get it before Windows 10?

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 Along with the Lumia 830 and 730/5, Microsoft also announced the Lumia Denim firmware for its Nokia Lumia devices. It packs lots of – mostly camera related – features, like a much faster Lumia camera app or the “Hey, Cortana” feature. That was on IFA in Berlin – in September 2014!  Today is January 15th, 2015. Lumia denim began to roll out a few weeks ago and runs nicely on the devices that already received the update. Here in Germany I have the update on my Lumia 620 and it runs great. However, my Lumia 1520 has not received anything yet, and it has no carrier branding.  Several reports from Finland claim Lumia Denim is already running on Lumia 1520 phones in the Nordic country, which means the update is finished. Then why not make it public to everyone already? In the last few weeks after the first phones became able to install the update nothing happened and the user needed to wait longer. Today this has not changed.  I understand several phones need optimi...