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| NOKIA LUMIA 920 |
Introduction
Light at the end of the tunnel or the tunnel of light at the end. Nokia is near the point where it couldn't care less - as long as the dark days are finally over for a company, which used to drive an entire industry forward.
Nokia must hardly be enjoying life after Symbian and it shows. The fact is that the Finns have nothing but Ashas and the most basic of S30 phones between the last Windows Phone flagship and the next. The PureView 808 was a flash of brilliance - like the N9 before it - but just that. And a dwindling army of fans still holds on to the memory of a Nokia that was as prolific as it was talented.
Not the best of times then for the Finns, but the right time for a flagship to show its worth. Saying that the future of the company is being decided here is probably too much. But the Lumia 920 could be the difference between living with dignity and scratching a living on emerging markets.
The holiday season and the first months of 2013 are a make or break time for Nokia, and if those early reports of the phone being sold-out are anything to go by, the Lumia 920 already managed to get a few victories under its belt. It’s going to be a long campaign though and we're yet to see if the new flagship has what it takes to help Nokia get back where they want to be.
Key features
1.Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
2.Quad-band 3G with 42 Mbps HSDPA and 5.7 Mbps HSUPA support
3.4.5" 16M-color PureMotionHD+ IPS display with a resolution of 1280 x 768 pixels
4.8 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash, 1080p@30fps video recording
5.Optical Image stabilization with floating lens technology
6.1.3MP front-facing camera
7.Windows Phone 8 OS
8.1.5GHz dual-core Krait CPU, Adreno 225 GPU, Qualcomm MSM8960 chipset, 1GB of RAM
9.Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, dual-band
10.GPS receiver with A-GPS and GLONASS support
11.Free lifetime voice-guided navigation
12.32GB of inbuilt storage
13.Active noise cancellation with a dedicated mic
14.Wireless charging with optional accessories
15.Built-in accelerometer, gyroscope and proximity sensor
16.Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
17.microUSB port
18.Bluetooth v3.0 with A2DP and EDR, file transfers
19.SNS integration
20.Xbox Live integration and Xbox management
21.NFC support
22.Digital compass
23.Nokia Music
2.No microSD card
3.No FM radio
4.No system-wide file manager
5.No lockscreen shortcuts
6.Size and weight something to definitely consider before you buy
7.Audio output not worthy of a flagship
8.Non user-replaceable battery
Verdict
Chunky with good specs and a brilliant take on Windows Phone 8, there’s lots to like about the Nokia Lumia 920. The battery life and chunky build may be enough to disappoint potential buyers but they would miss out on the advantages of a super-powered Windows phone.
And the nice Nokia extras like Nokia Drive which are so slick, they set a real example of how to do home grown navigation apps. Overall, I still find the Nokia Lumia 920 immense fun and that's not something we expected to say about Windows...
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