Nokia Lumia 920

Nokia Lumia 920

Nokia Lumia 920 is a smartphone developed by Nokia that runs the Windows Phone 8 operating system. It was announced on September 5, 2012, and was first released on November 2, 2012. It has a 1.5 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Krait CPU and a 114 mm (4.5″ IPS TFT LCD display, as well as a high-sensitivitycapacitive touchscreen that is covered by curved Gorilla Glass. It supports inductive charging (it can be charged by being placed directly onto a charging pad) and is compatible with Qi Inductive Charging; further, it features an 8.7 megapixel PureView camera with optical image stabilization for still images and videos. It comes with 32 GB internal storage, but has no card slot; hence it cannot be expanded with memory cards. Its touchscreen also can be used with the gloves worn by the user.

 Review: Adeel Kain

When I heard the news of Nokia Lumia 920’s launch, I was excited to research about it. Just didn’t know that I would like it so much, I would end up getting one for myself! I love the blur-free picture quality that my Nokia Lumia 920 provides with its 8.7 MP camera featuring PureView technology and Carl Zeiss Lens. And I can go clicking even in a moving bus as its Optical Image Stabilization feature takes care of the shakes and bumps and prevents them from marring the snap. The 4.5-inch PureMotion HD+ display makes chatting, browsing and navigation faster. It’s the most sensitive touch screen and I can browse it even with covered fingertips. Donned with Corning Gorilla Glass 2 protection, the display resists scratches, finger prints and damage due to accidental falls. So my phone looks good, no matter how old it really gets.

I love to discover different cities and find out which are the most exciting places to visit and my Nokia Lumia 920 helps me in that with its HERE City Lens, HERE Maps, HERE Drive and HERE Transit function. Its viewfinder reveals all the nearby eateries, shopping malls, movie theatres along with photos, so I can spend more time having fun, instead of searching for a place to do so. I can easily share my favourite places with my buddies or save them for my future visits. Looks matter to me, and I have noticed how others try to steal a glance at my phone’s sleek, uber cool unibody construction. It’s such a relief that I don’t have to carry a wired charger to charge my phone when low on energy. I just have to place my phone on the wireless charging pad and it gets completely charged.

Powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon Processor and 1 GB RAM, my phone makes me wait lesser and do more at a faster speed. The 32 GB onboard storage and SkyDrive free cloud storage of 7 GB is more than enough for my data storage. I can quickly glance through all my important apps through the Me Tiles interfaced Windows 8 on my phone like Facebook, Twitter, PeopleHub, Yahoo mail and many more. Business apps too are available, for instance Adobe Acrobat Reader, MS Office with Word, Excel and PowerPoint. So, any urgent work-related chore can now be taken care of without me having to switch on my PC.

I can’t go a day without listening to music and my phone’s Nokia Music helps me stream numerous latest tracks, make a personal album of my favourite artists, and even create my own music channels. The 3G, LTE, NFC, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth features make my life easier. I recently heard that Nokia Lumia 920 won the Reader’s Choice Smartphone of the Year in the Engadget Awards 2012 and I totally second the decision.

Review : Priyanka Das

Why I would personally NOT RECOMMEND it wholeheartedly - though BRILLIANT PHONE

I'm a student of SciTech and I wanted a phone that would simplify my life by reducing the number of things I carry around in my pocket: to merge a phone with good reception, a great camera (can sneakily take great pictures inside classrooms even!), a mini-tablet that reads, writes, takes notes, translates etc, and easily synchs with my laptop. Also, incredibly durable.

The natural choice was the best phone Nokia could make - from past experience - and luckily, it comes with a great camera.

Am I satisfied? Well, here are the good points:

1)Amazing touch sensitivity (I can navigate with my finger 1mm off the screen) and response - feels great to own

2)good storage 32GB

3)good battery - it only eats the battery when you are playing games, but performs reasonably well with movies and you can hear songs on it all day. Internet surfing time is pretty decent. Overnight, it was connected to wifi and updated all apps- I have a lot of apps - and synched facebook and gmail - after 24hrs it had lost 1% battery... brilliant!

4) Very decent camera with good apps (look up Nokia Lenses). Android may have more variety though but then, the quality of images is brilliant only on the 920 overall, if you consider image resolution, quality, and stabilization. There is a button for camera and the camera can be accessed even when the screen is locked with a long press of the button - I don't know how many of you will appreciate the importance of this.

5) I like the tiles - life is a lot more simpler, but miss the Live-wallpaper on Androids (not like I used it anyway, to conserve battery!) The interface is very simplified and nothing really is missing, unless you are a hellbent on having the Android screens. In fact, there is a nice feature called "hubs" which groups different kinds of apps together, which does look like the Android or iOs shells - but you can't modify it. Still, life is simpler - the pre-programmed grouping is convenient.

6) I know the apps are terribly incompetent compared to Android but face it - the growth curve is sharper for WP8. I like the apps (but most of the good ones are not free, so beware). Most of the ones important to me are there. The Nokia specific apps are cool especially Cityscape. So dont get very worried that WP8 is primitive compared to Andrd and iOs (read: 10 Windows Phone 8 Features That Would Make Android Even Sweeter by Kavafian)

7) Synchs pretty well with Windows7

8) Looks beautiful, looks amazing (I have Matte black), is very strong and it's a little heavy but unlike what I feared - you don't feel the weight, even in your pocket. It's about 50-60g heavier than what most people are used to. Cmon, that's seriously not much!

Some drawbacks.

1) Non-removable battery, so you cannot carry a spare one around.
2) Heats up randomly - while wirelessly charging, while playing for some while...
These are synonymous with those of other highend, heavyduty smartphones also. We've been reduced to people who need to charge everyday and have started calling a good battery one which sees you through an entire day. Well, if you aren't gaming, LM920 is good in that respect, but an hour idling away playing games is a serious issue - eats up 20-30%!

3) ONE TERRIBLE SHORTAGE...
There is no ****** document manager. Sure it reads your PDF's and after a labourious process, reads your epubs also, but what sucks is that you cannot manage all these in folders! So if you are like me - this means scrolling through about 4000 files in one list (haven't uploaded them yet for this precise reason). I would really like a folder system - WP8 DEVELOPPERS DO SOMETHING!This is why I would not recommend a WP8, not just the Lumia 920.

So am I in love with LM920? Yes! But given a chance to get the money back and invest in a different phone (like Samsung Note2?) would I do it? Yes. Definitely. This is because I REALLY MISS the folder system and the LM920 is making life hard here. Although, it's really fancy and will serve me well in parties and travel trips (as long as I carry a charger). So yeah, if you don't really care about these cons - LM920 IS the phone you want.

+Varghese Mathew