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Nokia Lumia |OT| Worth the Weight
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Chiggs
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Phone is up and running and everything is as good as advertised. Camera is fucking amazing and the display is simply gorgeous. Confession: the phone is heavier than I thought it would be; however, it's not a dealbreaker--that said, I will be investing in a Bluetooth headset. There is simply no way I'm holding this mammoth to my ear for an extended period of time...especially when driving.
Nokia Music is so goddamn amazing that it simply shits on what other providers offer. Completely free + no sign up? It's a ridiculous value.
Fun fact: Gamestop gave me $172.00 trade in value for my iPhone 4 32gb. I was quite surprised to get that much. Wii U is now paid for entirely.
Nokia Music is so goddamn amazing that it simply shits on what other providers offer. Completely free + no sign up? It's a ridiculous value.
Fun fact: Gamestop gave me $172.00 trade in value for my iPhone 4 32gb. I was quite surprised to get that much. Wii U is now paid for entirely.
Buy it from Rogers, it's unlocked out of the box.
AT&T has it ... but you have to have the right data plan for it.
That was in the early batches so I'm worried that might have since changed. Is there a way that I can find out for sure?
Are they only selling black colours?
Black only right now I think... As far as the status of it being unlocked they exactly the same as the ones given out at BUILD, so I'm not sure why that would change so soon.
Wow AT&T sucks. I have the $15 data plan, but they removed it during activation of my 920. I called and they had to create a case, with the decision happening on 11/20. I'm stuck with pay-per-use (meaning I'll avoid using data) until then
I'm upset about this.
do you have a local store
whenver I had simliar issues I just go in and find a nice person ans ask if they cou;d please help
I think grandfathered plans are a different set of issues though, so I'll believe them just this once. He gave me a reference number for my case so it seems legit.
Thankfully my university has WiFi throughout the whole campus.
So, night one with the Lumia.
Full disclosure. I've been an Apple man pretty much my whole life. Some of Apples recent decisions, plus getting a little stale on things, made me switch over. I sold my MacBook Air and got a Lenovo Yoga and now upgraded an iPhone 4 for a Lumia 920.
This. Thing. Is. Awesome.
First, the build quality is awesome. It feels like a tank. But the weight? Totally being blown out of proportion. I'll admit the iPhone 5 is extremely light, so my guess is reviewers were in shock going from that to this.
I loaded up my favorite apps and customized my home screen.
Went out to Philly for the night for cheese steaks. On the way there, my one friend took a picture with his iPhone 4S
I decided to take one myself
I think the images speak for themselves.
Steaks were great
I had no problem checking into places, updating my Facebook, quickly snapping photos and keeping up with Kik messenger.
Overall I am VERY happy right now. I love how all my calendar events and contacts quickly synced to my Yoga. Skydrive with photos is cool too, although I seem to be getting three different albums...mobile uploads, snapshot pictures and saved pictures.
One annoyance so far
Facebook app isn't displaying notifications unless I click on the globe icon, but the ME tile updates quickly
Also, a few apps from WP7 are missing, such as Spotify. Although I'm tempted to move onto Xbox Music until Spotify gets their shit together. Xbox Music doesn't have as much of a selection, but interacts better on the phone, in Windows RT and on my Xbox.
Full disclosure. I've been an Apple man pretty much my whole life. Some of Apples recent decisions, plus getting a little stale on things, made me switch over. I sold my MacBook Air and got a Lenovo Yoga and now upgraded an iPhone 4 for a Lumia 920.
This. Thing. Is. Awesome.
First, the build quality is awesome. It feels like a tank. But the weight? Totally being blown out of proportion. I'll admit the iPhone 5 is extremely light, so my guess is reviewers were in shock going from that to this.
I loaded up my favorite apps and customized my home screen.
Went out to Philly for the night for cheese steaks. On the way there, my one friend took a picture with his iPhone 4S
I decided to take one myself
I think the images speak for themselves.
Steaks were great
I had no problem checking into places, updating my Facebook, quickly snapping photos and keeping up with Kik messenger.
Overall I am VERY happy right now. I love how all my calendar events and contacts quickly synced to my Yoga. Skydrive with photos is cool too, although I seem to be getting three different albums...mobile uploads, snapshot pictures and saved pictures.
One annoyance so far
Facebook app isn't displaying notifications unless I click on the globe icon, but the ME tile updates quickly
Also, a few apps from WP7 are missing, such as Spotify. Although I'm tempted to move onto Xbox Music until Spotify gets their shit together. Xbox Music doesn't have as much of a selection, but interacts better on the phone, in Windows RT and on my Xbox.
Amory
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Fun fact: Gamestop gave me $172.00 trade in value for my iPhone 4 32gb. I was quite surprised to get that much. Wii U is now paid for entirely.
Wait really? iPhone 4, not 4s? Damn I gotta get in on that.
Chiggs
Gold Member
Yep. I had all the original packaging. $172.00. Very surprised by that.
something I'm confused about that I'm hoping someone can clarify...
nokia maps doesn't send the directions to nokia drive?
however if you search the address elsewhere it is just maps, not nokia maps. You can then navigate to Nokia Drive from there.
Using Nokia Drive, there is no list option to see the route. Only nokia maps portion has the directions in a list.
Seems a little unintuitive and confusing to me.
nokia maps doesn't send the directions to nokia drive?
however if you search the address elsewhere it is just maps, not nokia maps. You can then navigate to Nokia Drive from there.
Using Nokia Drive, there is no list option to see the route. Only nokia maps portion has the directions in a list.
Seems a little unintuitive and confusing to me.
Yes the weird thing is that they hid Bing Maps but its still around. Nokia Drive definitely needs the ability to see multiple routes and choose.
You can definitely send driving directions to Nokia Drive from either map program.
Cyan!
Wow AT&T sucks. I have the $15 data plan, but they removed it during activation of my 920. I called and they had to create a case, with the decision happening on 11/20. I'm stuck with pay-per-use (meaning I'll avoid using data) until then
I'm upset about this.
Same thing happened to me, my data and messenging plans fell off my account. I convinced the guy to give me the 300 meg data plan as a hold over though (for free).
antiquegamer
Member
You probably need to go on their website and reset your password. Or best thing to do is call their support in case it's the same problem I have when I switch to Lumia 900 they have to completely set up my voicemail.
Someone needs to make a imgur metro app for both Windows and WP. It only makes too much sense to not make one.
Argh, I'm so gutted that you can't get a cyan 920 in Germany!
Also: You can't get a 920 in the whole city... every shop is out of stock. Online retailers didn't even get their shipments yet (including amazon). I'm not even sure people got their hands on any yellow/red ones.
What a weird launch. Still want this phone so bad.
Also: You can't get a 920 in the whole city... every shop is out of stock. Online retailers didn't even get their shipments yet (including amazon). I'm not even sure people got their hands on any yellow/red ones.
What a weird launch. Still want this phone so bad.
antiquegamer
Member
Demand exceed supply! or the phones are so heavy, the shipping take longer. I am just thinking they didn't expect anyone to show up for them on launch day. My At&t didn't even have the demo unit set up when I was there, granted I was there at the store open but you would think they would have all the promo stuff set up.
The launch date I think as they report was probably very last minute thing.
Yeah, I went through a mall yesterday, with a Vodafone, Mobilcom and Media Markt store. All 3 had the 920, but with zero fanfare, only in black, and pretty badly set up. Only the Media Markt one had internet connection, and there wasn't any video on the others, so it wasn't really easy to check the screen quality.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
Have you checked out Nokia Music? My wife loves it.
Nokia Music is great, but it doesn't really give you much control about individual songs...
I was actually very impressed throwing on the rock station last night but I like picking my own songs. Some days I drive for over 2 hours and enjoy the control for what I'm in the mood for.
Funky Papa
FUNK-Y-PPA-4
WP8 phones are not even up for reservation in Spain. Officially, at least. I got to fiddle with one due to some connections.
It's such a clusterfuck of a launch.
Could use Skydrive and host them there, there is an Imgur app too that I've used and it isn't too bad
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/imgur-uploader/629edadb-d08b-e011-986b-78e7d1fa76f8
WP always seem to relatively much more European fans compared to the other platforms interestingly enough. It's reception is probably much worse in Asia.
Oh yeah, can anyone test if the touchscreen on the 920 works better than other smartphones when the screen is wet? Like droplets of water on it and with your finger slightly wet. Normal smartphones tend to spazz out in those conditions.
Oh yeah, can anyone test if the touchscreen on the 920 works better than other smartphones when the screen is wet? Like droplets of water on it and with your finger slightly wet. Normal smartphones tend to spazz out in those conditions.
What the hell. Which country? Here in Finland it's 599€. Kind of crazy cheap when the same memory iPhone 5 is 799€.
Or well, "crazy cheap" is not the right word. iPhone 5 is just horribly overpriced.
I am checking the "available now" shops. The "coming soon (next year?)" ones are indeed 600.
nm I found out how. Still weird that bing maps is still there. It makes navigation a little weird cause if I use any other part of the OS, the maps come out as bing maps instead of nokia maps. the interface is different enough that it can be a little jarring. (navigate with drive on the bottom for bing maps as opposed to on the top for nokia maps... no speech to text in nokia maps) I know this is minor, but it would be nice if it was a bit more streamlined.
One last thing, there's no direction checking on nokia drive. Like a list to see where Drive is taking you. Most of the time I check the directions to make sure it's not taking to some weird place. Am I missing something again?
antiquegamer
Member
Picture was taken in the dark with no flash. (auto setting)
antiquegamer
Member
I had it on my 900 but there is no option on 920 not sure if it supports. I am going to check with Att in the morning.
Robobandit
Member
Did you get updated to a LTE data plan? You need to be on an LTE data plan to get visual voicemail on the 920.
Dial in to your voicemail and exit out. When I did that, my phone setup visual voicemail for me and it's working fine.
I got it working, just open the phone app and swipe to the voicemail side, you'll need to put your 10-digit phone number is as the voicemail number and the pin you use to check as the password. Now I just need to get someone to leave a message to test it out.
Robobandit said:
Apparently my old unlimited plan is an LTE plan, because I'm getting LTE now and the visual voicemail is free on Windows Phones with LTE plans? Doesn't make any sense to me, but it works so I'll take it!
Are you able to use Messenger? That's all that's not working for me.
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Robobandit
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No one is online right now for me.. so I can't test.
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