I noticed that yesterday while walking outside in the sun. It's pretty amazing. The screen has a "super-bright" mode that completely over-saturates everything if you're in really bright light, but hell, it works.
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Nokia Lumia |OT| Worth the Weight
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I noticed that yesterday while walking outside in the sun. It's pretty amazing. The screen has a "super-bright" mode that completely over-saturates everything if you're in really bright light, but hell, it works.
NeOak
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Mine is postpaid.
antiquegamer
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You can check on line and it should tell you if you eligible. Usually they let you upgrade early if you go iPhone. : /
hey i posted in this thread a few weeks ago and i just wanted to say i got the 920 and am pretty pleased with it
sure its a bit chunky but im glad i went with it because i drop things and this is a sturdy unit... and it is quick to boot
just one question... how do i make an mp3 a ring tone on this phone?
sure its a bit chunky but im glad i went with it because i drop things and this is a sturdy unit... and it is quick to boot
just one question... how do i make an mp3 a ring tone on this phone?
antiquegamer
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I think it sound great, but that is kind of subjective. I use it instead of my old iPod.
http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/how-to/wp8/start/add-ringtones-to-my-phone
brotkasten
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I think the 920 is $450 off contract in the US. Expensive, but not that much, compared to Europe and other parts in the world. US wins again.
Anyone having problems with their 920 cameras? I bought this phone specifically for it because I'm tired of blurry photos.
Yet it seems that the majority of pictures I take are blurry anyways. When I take a picture the screen briefly shows the image as being crisp but then there's a small shift on the screen image and the picture is blurry. I thought the image stabilizer was supposed to fix all this but I got better pictures with my titan 2 than I do with my 920.
It also seems like the phone is slower than my previous WP phones. The home screen stutters when I try hit the home button and try to navigate around quickly. Never had any stuttering on my titans or 900
Yet it seems that the majority of pictures I take are blurry anyways. When I take a picture the screen briefly shows the image as being crisp but then there's a small shift on the screen image and the picture is blurry. I thought the image stabilizer was supposed to fix all this but I got better pictures with my titan 2 than I do with my 920.
It also seems like the phone is slower than my previous WP phones. The home screen stutters when I try hit the home button and try to navigate around quickly. Never had any stuttering on my titans or 900
Got my cyan case today. I love it.
Where did you get the case? Is it gel or a hard case?
There is a bit of lag when the browser tries to load my history list in IE and there is an annoying stutter in the Marketplace. I pretty much believe that MS didn't optimize this OS properly for dual cores.
As for the camera, dumb question but did you try to use your thumb instead of camera button for focusing and taking a picture?
I bought it here in Poland. It's official 920 case and it's something between hard and gel case. It's not plastic, but still it's quite sturdy and its texture is simmilar to black 920's back
Looks nice. Thanks for the info.
That's what I read as well but I am leaning more toward JBL because it looks nicer IMO.
Especially after this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoFui-ABk70
Especially after this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoFui-ABk70
Picked up 2 Nokia 920s on the BOGO. I'm pretty impressed with this phone. Everything seems to be great so far. Loved the screen and loved the smoothness win8. Best of all my wife loves the new phone. I talked her into trying this phone out. She's so happy with the camera on the L920. Also she didn't even say anything about the weight of this tank.
TDK A33 is better than both. Trust me, I had the Play 360, but the sound pales in comparison to the TDK A33 which delivers stereo sound and booming bass.
Go to Amazon and read the TDK A33 reviews, they all say it's the best portable Bluetooth speaker out there. The battery life is only 3-4 hours but the sound quality makes it all worth it. If battery is a concern, get an external USB battery, the A33 is worth it.
I have the Bose Soundlink. How does it compare to the TDK?
never compared the two directly but I think the Bose is larger, has better battery, well rated, but also double the price at $300. The TDK and the Nokia branded speakers are around $150. At that price range, the TDK is the hands down winner.
Yeah, I'm in the unusual position of talking about the phone at least once a day, usually with...is that a windows phone 8...?
VanMardigan
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I was confused cause I bought my Play 360 speaker @ $99 but now I remember it was a sale. I haven't heard the TDK, but the battery life on the Play 360's are fantastic and are a valid enough reason to take a small hit on sound quality (they sound great to me anyway for portable speakers). Plus the TDK doesn't have NFC.
Nice. The things that stood out to him were how nice the screen was and that the weight criticisms were silly.
it isn't a small hit, believe me, the difference between the 360 and the TDK are quite drastic. Seriously, it isn't even close.
NFC I found to be an overrated feature as well as you have to keep both Bluetooth and NFC on to take advantage of NFC. I didn't wanna sacrifice my phones battery life for NFC convenience. Plus, pre-portico my 920 would sometimes freeze up.
Hum. Boy, if I had more money I would get one of these Qi charger speakers.
EDIT: Is this the TDK you're talking about?
EDIT: Is this the TDK you're talking about?
yeah that brick has serious sound. Amazing highs and lows that the Play 360 seriously lacks.
BrownChickenBrownCow
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VanMardigan
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So Gizmodo confirms what we already knew: The Nokia Lumia 920 has the best smartphone camera: http://m.gizmodo.com/5982478/the-best-smartphone-camera
Nice. Glad you like it. I went back to my cyan case. I prefer it a bit more.
I picked up a red 920 today. It works very different compared to Android/iOS which I think are easy to pop between. The app selection is what is killing me. I don't need a lot of apps but I do use Audible, Amazon Music, and MLB at Bat and they either aren't on Windows Phone or are not very feature rich. I'm bored with Android so I'd love to be able to use this device more.
Audible works great.
VanMardigan
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Why wouldn't Amazon port a music app to WP? Makes no sense. I think Google Music is a superior service anyway and at least there is a 3rd party alternative for that on WP.
Do you mean a GMusic client? What's it called? How is the sound quality?
Ragus, what weather app is that on the bottom of your homescreen?Got my cyan case today. I love it
I've been trying to look for an app that has a weekly weather forecast displayed on a large tile
My 820 is easily the best phone I've ever owned. Just got a second (cyan) shell for it so I can change it with the black one whenever I want to.
Thank you all for the Amazing Weather suggestion, what a great app.
This is a shot of my homescreen right now. I'm having a ton of fun rearranging and reshuffling all my tiles every couple of days.
Thank you all for the Amazing Weather suggestion, what a great app.
This is a shot of my homescreen right now. I'm having a ton of fun rearranging and reshuffling all my tiles every couple of days.
Zee_truly evil
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My lumia 920's battery has been draining pretty fast, around 10 % in 20 minutes, how do fix this GAF??
VanMardigan
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gooroovster
CrazedProfessional
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Just ordered a 820, is the SD slot expandable to 64gb or 32gb?
Navidson REC
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Thanks for this post. As I posted in the WP thread, my provider offered me a 820 and I'm still kinda undecided whether it's a good offer or not. But the 820 really seems like a neat phone.
Do you have any problems when it comes to apps and storage since it just has 8 GB? And can you use the phone entirely in English as well (I'm in Germany, too, but prefer to have most of my electronics set up in English)?
I put a 32 GB Micro-SD card into the phone, where I put all my music. the camera app saves to it as well. So I'm not having any trouble with storage space. I'm not sure if you can save apps on the SD card, would have to double check.
I bought a wireless charging shell + station for a total of 80 on Amazon, but it's mostly for fun. Wireless charging is neat, but not at all necessary.
I just checked, you can set the phone's language to English and it even offered me to download the speech recognition pack for the English language.
@CrazedProfessional: I'm using a 32 GB card, so that's definitely possible, don't know about 64 GB.
Funky Papa
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Am I the only one having issues with Nokia Music and WP's own music player properly recognizing albums? Take a look at this screencap
Andrew WK's is duplicated (with a bunch of random songs in each album) and uses a slightly different image. Billy Idol's should be a compilation album with a different image, but somehow WP picked the original release and thumbnail of one of those songs and created a separate album out of it.
The most bizarre thing is that all my albums have their own custom made thumbnails within the MP3 file and are properly tagged, as I rip them myself from my CD collection.
Edit: This was NOT an issue with my old WP7 phone, BTW. It's pretty maddening.
Andrew WK's is duplicated (with a bunch of random songs in each album) and uses a slightly different image. Billy Idol's should be a compilation album with a different image, but somehow WP picked the original release and thumbnail of one of those songs and created a separate album out of it.
The most bizarre thing is that all my albums have their own custom made thumbnails within the MP3 file and are properly tagged, as I rip them myself from my CD collection.
Edit: This was NOT an issue with my old WP7 phone, BTW. It's pretty maddening.
Pretty sure it's 64GB, the 620 is anyway.
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