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If all goes according to company plan, Nokia smartphones will soon regain some of their former luster. The Finnish company HMD Global, which operates Nokia's phone business, and ZEISS, a German maker of optical and measurement systems, recently announced a partnership that (according to a joint press release), "aims to set new imaging standards within the smartphone industry."1 For decades, Nokia phones, including the 2013 Lumia 1020 with its Pure View camera technology, were some of the most highly regarded mobile devices on the market.2 (ZEISS was a partner during some of that period.) In 2013, Nokia's mobile phone division was sold to Microsoft, after which Nokia-branded phones weren't developed or marketed as rigorously as before. In 2016, however, HMD and FIH Mobile, a division of Foxconn, purchased Nokia's mobile phone business from Microsoft and announced plans to release a line of higher end Android-based smartphones.3 In fact, the Nokia 8, the company's first "flagship" phone in years, was announced in August 2017.