Best thing about these new phones for me is that I can safely go ahead and upgrade my 900 to the 920 without feeling left out. Sure, maybe we will get a significantly better Lumia in the fall/winter, but then I can wait and get that next year I guess.
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Waiting for us in November probably.
dragonelite
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people will say we don't need 1080p, but i do so im waiting too.
My omnia 7 is ancient but still capable.
antiquegamer
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It's hard to be excited about feature we used to have. I remember FM radio on my old Focus along with wifi sync and oh Zune music that properly tag your album. Half of my music have gray blob as album art, I am pass caring or give a shit enough to fix it.
If you don't think they move slow ... 6 months after 920, they just now announce variants of the phone on another carrier and fixing the features that was incomplete and left out. That's half a year for update that frankly doesn't really add anything new. I want to be able to edit my contact (instead of choosing from premade tag that doesn't really fit), separate volume control, notification center etc.). Things that add feature to Windows Phone not putting stuff back that was remove because they can't get the shit done on time.
925/928 should have been the couple month at most. A slimmer, thinner phone without some of the feature like OIS or wireless charging but still have higher resolution screen. And yes, I love by 920 but it is one hefty phone.
edit: I place most of the blame on Microsoft.
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brotkasten
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Didn't pretty much everyone here complain that Windows Phone didn't get enough updates between the major updates? Now they're finally doing smaller incremental OS updates like iOS x.1 or Android x.x.1 updates and some here are still complaining.
Of course it's not a coincidence that the 925 and 928 were announced for T-Mobile and Version pretty much 6 months after the 920 AT&T release. US carriers want their own little flagship phones if they can and AT&T had an exclusive deal for the first six months, just like EE had a 3 month exclusivity in the UK. Whether or not it's a good strategy, that's Nokia's job to decide.
I do think that the 925 is the phone they should've released in November. I love the idea of wireless charging, but most people don't care, so it adds a lot of unwanted weight and thickness to the original 920.
Steelyuhas
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Eh, I guess it doesn't. I still prefer the design of the 920 over the other two.
HollovVpo1nt
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So.. Lumia 925 is priced at 568 euro here (NL). It'll be 20-30 euro cheaper at retail but holy shit.
I just typed a few hundred words shitting on the 925's design until I realized I got the numbers mixed up.
Nokia needs to clear up their naming scheme.
linkeurena
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Guys look what I found in a TV commercial in Mexico.
Is this another sign?
Is this another sign?
brotkasten
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Guys look what I found in a TV commercial in Mexico.
Is this another sign?
Instagram is coming out for MeeGo? Holy shit.
Because they're adding features back that we had in WP7.5/.8. That's why we're complaining.
Portico
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That's not enough to catch up.
Thats not much added since November.
dragonelite
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linkeurena
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Well, fuck me. They were promoting several phones including a Lumia.
This is a minor update that normally would just be bugfixes for iOS & Android. People need to stop always complaining about everything.
antiquegamer
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Pretty much this. Like I said without Nokia I would have jump to Android like many here.
The Faceless Master
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so... 8.0.0.1 ?
jossueinacoma
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I just switched to a Lumia 521 from an HD7 last week, as the latter phone was on the fritz. Anyway, been quite pleased with the Lumia (despite its shortcomings), but Holy Shit @ the clusterfuck that is the WP8 experience with Xbox music and the WP sync apps.
I'm a Zune HD user w/Zune Pass and the HD7 used to sync beautifully with my collection residing on my NAS and play all my Zune Pass music. Not so much anymore. Now I'm forced to use the barebones WP app to sync my music (sans my downloaded Zune Pass music and ratings info of course). And if I want to download new music using my "Xbox Music" pass, I have to use the dogshit Music app and download new versions of the same music I already have downloaded, but can't use. And then store it all locally, because it refuses to access my music share from my NAS (Despite the fact that the WP sync app talks to my Library/NAS share just fine).
How the fuck MS managed to drop the ball so spectacularly is completely beyond me. Same deal with other content they sell. I loath iTunes, but they manage to make access to all of your purchased content seamless on all your Apple hardware. MS looks completely incompetent by comparison.
I'm a Zune HD user w/Zune Pass and the HD7 used to sync beautifully with my collection residing on my NAS and play all my Zune Pass music. Not so much anymore. Now I'm forced to use the barebones WP app to sync my music (sans my downloaded Zune Pass music and ratings info of course). And if I want to download new music using my "Xbox Music" pass, I have to use the dogshit Music app and download new versions of the same music I already have downloaded, but can't use. And then store it all locally, because it refuses to access my music share from my NAS (Despite the fact that the WP sync app talks to my Library/NAS share just fine).
How the fuck MS managed to drop the ball so spectacularly is completely beyond me. Same deal with other content they sell. I loath iTunes, but they manage to make access to all of your purchased content seamless on all your Apple hardware. MS looks completely incompetent by comparison.
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has calmed down a bit.
Its the third or fourth update, so whatever the random android equivalent is.
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brotkasten
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Now that the 925 is official, we're going to hear about new rumors soon enough. But don't expect the release anytime soon.
I think your expectations have been so low by WP that you've accepted the pace that Microsoft is moving at. They need to be faster with these releases and more features not just bringing back features from 7.5 but go beyond that.
brotkasten
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I don't have a phone with WP8 here, just one with 7.8.
How many features did they bring back so far?
campfireweekend
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Complex Shadow
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Didn't you hear? They revived Zune!
HA...
a) sad how good zune was.
b) sad how bad zune was.
c) all of the above
c)
Tom Warren tweeted this a few hours ago:
Now that they've got most of their bases covered with a solid flagship on each of the big three US carriers, plus throughout the world, it looks like we're finally gonna start hearing about their higher end Lumias that might be either competitive with the latest Android/iOS devices, or beyond them on a few aspects.
Competitive on what?
Steelyuhas
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How is the Lumia 920/928/925 hardware not competitive with the iPhone?
The GPU sucks?
That said, it WILL be nice to see 1080p and Snapdragon 600/800 devices out there running WP8. The current specs aren't even enough for Nokia's Smart Camera to work optimally (it has to take 5 megapixel images), I believe the SGS4 can do all (or most) of the same but in higher resolution.
Dumbo
They certainly are right now, but then WWDC hits later in the summer and we'll be back a few steps again. I suppose I should have said devices that would be hitting later this year.
Rand0m TAG
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are any of the new lumias coming to canada>? and what carrier?
Steelyuhas
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Okay fair enough, but those are examples of stuff that the majority of end users don't use or don't notice. The specs are very comparable to the iPhone5 and GS3.The GPU sucks?
The current specs aren't even enough for Nokia's Smart Camera to work optimally (it has to take 5 megapixel images), I believe the SGS4 can do all (or most) of the same but in higher resolution.
Now 1080p will be nice (although I think it's overrated on screens this size).
Lumia 920 came out about 6 weeks after the iPhone 5, something similar will probably happen this fall again, so I don't see the big deal. My larger concern with the Lumia's is the fragmentation of devices with every US carrier demanding their own version of the phone and the absurd naming for those, 521/810/820/822/920/925/928 are all Lumia WP8 phones across US carriers and they are essentially two different phone in seven different flavors.
lastflowers
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I approve!
Haven't heard anything yet. There is some Nokia event tomorrow in Toronto, but I think it is just about Nokia Music. What carrier are you with?
You guys know that one of these days I'm going to catch Lastflowers drunk and he's going to let something out of the bag.
The GPU sucks?
The current specs aren't even enough for Nokia's Smart Camera to work optimally (it has to take 5 megapixel images), I believe the SGS4 can do all (or most) of the same but in higher resolution.
I'm not so sure that's a GPU limitation and not camera limitation. How many full-resolution shots can the iPhone and GS4 do within two seconds?
The GS4 'drama shot' takes 100 photos in four seconds, but afaik only in 1920x1080.
Are you going to roofie him?
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