Nokia's Lumia 920 is its higher-end of the company's two Windows Phone 8 launch devices. It runs a 1.5GHz dual-core S4, has a 4.5-inch HD display, and 32GB of internal flash. The 920 marks the arrival of Nokia's PureView tech on a Windows Phone handset, using optical image stabilization and sporting impressive low-light performance. The handset supports LTE 4G, and can be charged wirelessly.
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by Michael Fisher | January 23, 2013 1:45 PMRead OnLife frequently defies our expectations. For example, if it's your first full season covering mobile-technology trade shows, sometimes you find your expectations for a nice, quiet lull between CES and MWC completely upset -toppled, really- by reality. For this editor, that reality came fast and fierce, delivering an unbelievable bounty of rumor and speculation at his doorstep on the morning of this week's Pocketnow Weekly podcast. The bright side: you get to hear all the latest news and gossip surrounding Galaxy S IV and Note 8.0 speculation; HTC's Droid DNA upgrade with a very James ...
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by Michael Fisher | January 22, 2013 5:55 PMRead OnOne is a Windows-powered smartphone built by Nokia to be the finest calling, texting, and browsing machine running Microsoft's Windows Phone platform. The other is an Android-powered smart camera built to take on the vast army of unconnected point-and-shoots covering the land. In almost every conceivable way, these machines are as different as two mobile devices can be. So why on Earth would we choose to compare them? Because you asked for it. More precisely, you asked us to compare the Galaxy Camera with the 808 PureView, the prototype release for Nokia's premium cameraphone brand. Well, ...
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by Michael Fisher | January 17, 2013 1:00 PMRead OnJanuary: the post-holiday comedown mixes with the post-CES recovery and pre-MWC quiet to form a lull of epic proportions. Fortunately though, leaks and rumors never stop, and we've got a few of them to bat around on this episode of the Weekly. Today, Joe Levi and Anton D. Nagy each return to the podcast to talk rumored Sony Xperia tablets, LG Windows Phones, and the will-it-never-die speculation surrounding a cheap iPhone. Also making the cut: the HTC M7 and Samsung Galaxy S IV, the Huawei Ascend W2, and some far-out pseudo-news regarding LG's supposed "Nexus 5" and "Nexus 7.7." All that, ...
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by Stephen Schenck | January 17, 2013 12:10 PM
Read OnBack in December, we heard from Nokia that it was starting distribution of the Windows Phone 8 Portico update for Lumia 820 and Lumia 920 owners in the US and Canada. What about the rest of you? At the time, Nokia said that wider distribution would begin in February, but it now sounds like the company has gotten a head start, posting an update today which explains that the the process is already underway. According to Nokia, phased deployment of the update will continue from now through the middle of March, by which point Nokia intends to have reached Lumia 820 and 920 users in all ...
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by Jaime Rivera | January 3, 2013 7:00 PMRead OnWatch today's Pocketnow Daily as we go through the new rumors of an LG Optimus G2 in the works. Nokia makes the news later as we talk about their probable plans of an Aluminum Lumia in the future. Samsung later takes the spotlight, first with the fact that they're pushing updates to fix some problems with the Galaxy S III, and later because they seem to be going serious with Tizen in a probable Galaxy S device this year. We end today's show talking about how iOS 6 shouldn't disturb according to its settings, but will still do so until January 7th. All this and more after the break. Stories ...
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by Stephen Schenck | January 3, 2013 1:20 PMRead OnWith the N9, Nokia stumbled onto a phone design it really fell in love with, and since then we've seen the same type of polycarbonate frame become a staple of the company's forays into Windows Phone. While that feels like a big part of what makes a phone a Lumia, could Nokia already be thinking of finding a new look for its next Lumia headliner? That's what some new rumors are suggesting, saying that Nokia could be looking to create a sleeker, slimmer, and lighter Lumia thanks to a move to aluminum construction. This won't necessarily be an all-or-nothing move, and we could still see the ...
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by Stephen Schenck | December 28, 2012 6:45 PMRead OnWay back in early September, just following Nokia's official announcement of the Lumia 920, we talked a little bit about the phone's High Amplitude Audio Capture microphones and the three-mic "Rich Recording" setup they provided. The idea behind all this was to allow the phone to capture audio over a wider range of volumes, helping to avoid clipped signals and ultimately reproduce a more natural-sounding recording. If that all sounds like a lot of technobabble to you, Nokia's put together a short video demonstrating just what a difference HAAC and Rich Recording make. For the test, Nokia ...
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by Michael Fisher | December 28, 2012 3:19 PMRead OnI recently introduced my mother, a self-professed luddite, to the social photo-sharing app Instagram. It was a magical experience. In less than fifteen minutes, my mother was using faux HDR to bring out the midtones in her photos, slapping some frames on them, and sharing them across her just-created Instagram friends list (populated with many more Facebook-sourced names than either of us expected). None of the recent controversy surrounding Instagram's new terms of service mattered to my mom in this new world of photo-sharing, her first encounter with such a single-purpose social app. Its ...
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by Michael Fisher | December 27, 2012 6:44 PMRead OnAnother holiday season is drawing to a close, and if you’re among the lucky ones, the receding tides of commercialism have left you with a bounty of gadgetry under your Christmas tree, Hanukkah bush, or other homespun symbol of holiday joy. The holiday selling season is a crucial one for all mobile platforms, but not one has as much at stake as the still-nascent Windows Phone. At this time last year, the Microsoft device stable didn’t offer much in the way of premium goodies, with the then-still-unannounced Lumia 900 still months away from release. Would-be buyers of ...
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by Jaime Rivera | December 27, 2012 3:32 PMRead OnYou know, the touch screen isn't new. It was actually developed for the first time in 1965, and one of the first companies to ever use the technology on a mobile device was Apple with their first Newton PDAs. Sadly, as you remember, that didn't work so well and Apple killed the project just a couple of years later. Still, even after one company failed in making it a mainstream, along came Palm and Microsoft and completely shaped an industry that now powers the reason for being of this website. Who would've thought that a technology that was so cool even back then would fail until somebody ...
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by Stephen Schenck | December 26, 2012 4:12 PMRead OnWe're well used to seeing the same phone released in different markets with changes to its radio's frequency coverage; heck, it's practically par for the course. Sometimes, each individual model has its band support fine-tuned to only work on a subset of all available bands; other times, often with the "global" version of a phone, we'll see them all (or at least most of them) brought together for one handset. The latter is what we're thinking about today, upon learning of the incredible range of frequency coverage provided by the version of Nokia's Lumia 920 for India. If anyone was to try ...
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by Michael Fisher | December 26, 2012 8:01 AMRead OnAnother holiday season's come and (almost) gone, and if you're among the lucky ones, the receding tides of commercialism have left you with a bounty of gadgetry under your Christmas tree, Hanukkah bush, or other homespun symbol of holiday joy. The holiday season is a crucial one for all platforms, but this year we've had our eye trained especially closely on Windows Phone. At this time in 2011, the Microsoft device stable didn't offer much in the way of eye-catching goodies, with the then-unannounced Lumia 900 still months away from release. Would-be buyers of Windows Phone devices were ...
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by Stephen Schenck | December 21, 2012 3:18 PMRead OnWe just told you about the complaints some Lumia 920 users were making that, following the installation of the new Windows Phone 8 10211 update, their phones were having trouble controlling screen brightness. That sounds annoying enough, but we're now hearing from other users that the update has failed to correct the problems with resets and freeze-ups that plagued the platform, and may even be triggering problems in previously well-behaving phones. One user who noticed his Lumia 920 locking-up following all-night-long charging sessions claims that, upon calling AT&T for technical ...
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by Stephen Schenck | December 21, 2012 1:00 PMRead OnMicrosoft's Windows Phone 8 build 10211 "Portico" update hit Nokia's Lumia 920 in the US and Canada earlier this week, delivering some eagerly-anticipated fixes, like one that sharpens-up the handset's camera. As we're all too familiar with seeing when updates arrive, though, this one may introduce some new problems of its own. A number of 920 owners have been reporting that, following the installation of the update, their phones seem to have problems managing screen brightness levels. What we're hearing is that these affected handsets keep fiddling with brightness levels in areas of ...
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by Michael Fisher | December 20, 2012 2:30 PMRead OnOn the eve of the Mayan Apocalypse, three men gather to talk strategy, survival ... and smartphones. This week on the Pocketnow Weekly, we discuss what device we'd like at our side for the end of the world, before going for a quick dip in the nostalgia pool with a chat about running new Android software on old devices. After that, we knock around some Samsung Galaxy-family speculation, then dive headlong into a rundown of the merits and drawbacks of the new Samsung ATIV S, before touching on the tablet-smartphone interaction issue. Finally, we wrap it all up with some tablet speculation ...