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[maeh2k]

The German phone is a bit higher than I expected, but €599 sounds about right to me. I wasn't expecting any cheaper.

How much were HTC's prices again?

I believe 299 for the 8S and 550 for the 8X.

 

[derFeef]

600 sounds about right, but I don't like the date....

 

[HollovVpo1nt]

Question, I have an Omnia 7 that is restarting randomly.. sometimes while I'm browsing and I have had it happen once when I was in MetroTube..

What could be the cause of this problem?

 

[strata8]

Question, I have an Omnia 7 that is restarting randomly.. sometimes while I'm browsing and I have had it happen once when I was in MetroTube..

What could be the cause of this problem?

It happens with my Omnia 7 as well, but infrequently enough that it's not an issue. The phone freezes completely, the screen dims, and after a few seconds the phone reboots.

I think it's completely random, because I've had it happen when the phone is locked too.

 

[Damon Bennet]

i once hat the problem, when i pressed the upper right of tzhe phone too much that it would reboot. dont know why, but that was for about a week and then it solved itself

 

[Totakeke]

My Omnia has been having weird problems lately too. Sometimes I browse NeoGAF it hangs up, then when I press the home button to exit, the tiles on the home screen all bugs out and displays the same picture and leave shadows when scrolled.

Obviously we need new phones.

 

[Cute Dragon Here]

i once hat the problem, when i pressed the upper right of tzhe phone too much that it would reboot. dont know why, but that was for about a week and then it solved itself

It might have been a hardware issue if it can be caused by pressure on the hardware component itself.

 

[Milchjon]

So the 920 is really only available on one carrier in Germany. Great job, Nokia.

Also, with the 820 being so widely offered, what's their selling proposition for that one? I don't see how it should be able to convince many people...

Edit: I though the 920 price was pretty steep, until I realized the iPhone 5 (32GB) is still 140€ more. WTF, Apple.

 

[PG2G]

http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/27/3416432/nokia-lumia-920-820-pricing-pre-order-russia

Updated for Germany and Italy.


Disappointing. Those prices are higher than I would have liked. Ideally the 920 should be 550 Euros to compete with the GS3, but I can understand why it costs more.
Really disappointed with the Lumia 820. With WVGA and 8GB memory, I would have expected less than 500 Euros, maybe 400 Euros. At 500 it competes directly with the One X and the GS3.

My mother's contract will be renewed in november and I was hoping for an affordable, subsidized Lumia 820.

When you're doing price comparisons, are you comparing the MSRP vs. MSRP, or are you looking at the MSRP of the Lumia and comparing it to the street prices of the other phones?

 

[Cute Dragon Here]

Am I the only person whose 900's camera amazes other people in my family?

 

[maeh2k]

So the 920 is really only available on one carrier in Germany. Great job, Nokia.

Also, with the 820 being so widely offered, what's their selling proposition for that one? I don't see how it should be able to convince many people...

Edit: I though the 920 price was pretty steep, until I realized the iPhone 5 (32GB) is still 140€ more. WTF, Apple.

Mobilcom-debitel seems to be onboard with Windows Phone. They have both Lumias and they also already list the HTC 8X. They offer contracts for all the networks (vodafone, o2, t-mobile, e-plus).

 

[hwalker84]

Am I the only person whose 900's camera amazes other people in my family?

Probably

 

[VanMardigan]

Am I the only person whose 900's camera amazes other people in my family?

Its fine for well lit or daylight shots, but it's not special when compared against the other top line phones out now.

 

[Cute Dragon Here]

Probably

Its fine for well lit or daylight shots, but it's not special when compared against the other top line phones out now.

I don't know what I'm doing with all the night photos that I've been doing recently. Do I have an iron grip or what?

 

[derFeef]

I don't know what I'm doing with all the night photos that I've been doing recently. Do I have an iron grip or what?

Prove!

 

[VanMardigan]

Prove!

Yeah, on my wife's phone, even living room shots are a challenge at night with the lights on. Ditto for dusk and dawn shots. Well lit shots look fantastic, but they look great on my focus s as well.

 

[Milchjon]

Renting a car in the US, navigation would be about 50% extra.

Nokia Navigation FTW

 

[Commodore]

Brotkasten means "bread box" in German and was a nickname for a Commodore 64 in Germany apparently. But then again I'm sure over 95% of the posters here with Japanese screen names aren't Japanese.

TIL Brotkasten has a fine vintage taste in user names.

 

[Cute Dragon Here]

Yeah, on my wife's phone, even living room shots are a challenge at night with the lights on. Ditto for dusk and dawn shots. Well lit shots look fantastic, but they look great on my focus s as well.

It's actually something pretty easy to do. Night mode for low-light, anyone?

Click here. The size's reduced to 50% of the original, but then again, no camera I've seen aside from 808 has great accuracy at 1:1. You can see a bit of camera shake, but I'm impressed by the results. Now, if I had a 920...

 

[VanMardigan]

That does look pretty nice. My phone doesn't have night mode, is that a Nokia camera add on?

 

[derFeef]

I would not call this a night shot
My 800 makes a terrible noisy gradient over the picture as soon as it get's darker.

 

[Cute Dragon Here]

That does look pretty nice. My phone doesn't have night mode, is that a Nokia camera add on?

It's a scene mode. As a side note, I've noticed that I've got some purple haze when a light source is just out of the frame, like... the iPhone 5.

Noise tend to be caused by high ISO settings. Night mode = longer exposure time allowed.

 

[Frost_Ace]

It's a scene mode. As a side note, I've noticed that I've got some purple haze when a light source is just out of the frame, like... the iPhone 5.

Noise tend to be caused by high ISO settings. Night mode = longer exposure time allowed.

Instead I have green haze on my L800, ugh...

 

[LukasTaves]

It's actually something pretty easy to do. Night mode for low-light, anyone?

Click here. The size's reduced to 50% of the original, but then again, no camera I've seen aside from 808 has great accuracy at 1:1. You can see a bit of camera shake, but I'm impressed by the results. Now, if I had a 920...

At first i misread the sign as "Serve no Porn" lol.

But that does look pretty nice. If 920 actually is any improvement from that i definitely won't need any other camera

 

[Cute Dragon Here]

From all the time I've had with phone cameras, you can make up with a lot of shortcomings by doing some manual adjustments and using scene modes. I've noticed that night mode tends to increase detail in night shots as long as I keep a very steady hand.

 

[SCHUEY F1]

This is surely fake:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BMsLArefSOw

I want an Apple 5!

 

[ChanHuk]

Am I the only person whose 900's camera amazes other people in my family?

Yeah. In a room surrounded by 4S and S3. The 900 is poo

 

[Commodore]

Finally a clear, albeit small pic of the grey 920.

 

[derFeef]

Lovely.

But what's with the covering?

 

[hwalker84]

Finally a clear, albeit small pic of the grey 920.

Shit man. Grey or Yellow???? ARGH!!!

 

[Dead]

yellow bro

 

[brotkasten]

Lovely.

But what's with the covering?

Probably the prototype ID.

Shit man. Grey or Yellow???? ARGH!!!

Grey all the way. Unlike the glossy versions, it doesn't look like a cheap Chinese toy.

 

[Commodore]

Probably the prototype ID.

Grey all the way. Unlike the glossy versions, it doesn't look like a cheap Chinese toy.

Great minds think alike.

 

[Frustrated_me]

YELLOW PO-WAH!

 

[MattDoza]

Yeah, the grey is looking nice. I'd take any color, though. The vibrant yellow and strong red are nice, and the black and grey are nice neutrals. I'd say matte vs gloss is the real decision for me.

 

[jossueinacoma]

grey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[SCHUEY F1]

I like matte, but I need to see and hold the glossy devices before I make any decisions. I think in the end I will go with anything other than black.

 

[Frustrated_me]

I like matte, but I need to see and hold the glossy devices before I make any decisions. I think in the end I will go with anything other than black.

Basically. So tired of black turd brick designs...

 

[show me your skeleton]

Lovely.

But what's with the covering?

he foolishly had his name laser etched onto the phone.

 

[VanMardigan]

I think I'll go with grey. Unless at&t doesn't carry it, at which point I'll go with whatever color they DO offer.

I don't want gloss, but I also don't want to be without a 920.

 

[derFeef]

Looking at it longer, it kinda bothers me that it is the same tone, but the screen space is darker. It looks kinda washed out.... hm, need to see it in person (next summer when it comes here, lol).

 

[Commodore]

Finally a clear, albeit small pic of the grey 920.

Larger versions at the end of the image gallery here.

 

[Anton Sugar]

Chase Mobile Banking app heading to WP Store.

 

[venne]

Went to the website on the phone and it took me here:

http://wwwdb.nokia.com/proto

I could go for a 920 prototype right about now, someone check the bars in Espoo for me.

 

[VanMardigan]

That's actually really nice looking, and with that incomparable matte feel of my wife's 900, I think that'll be my choice if AT&T offers it.

edit: any chance Nokia uses a more scratch-resistant metal cover on the camera?

 

[Commodore]

Ah Chase, there you are. 9 highly important apps I'm missing to go. Still fine using alts, but some official versions of these would be nice.

[x] Chase
[ ] Mint (Use PageOnce for now, barely alright)
[ ] Square (mobile payments)
[ ] Boardgame apps (namely Carcassonne, Ticket to Ride, and Puerto Rico)
[ ] Official Tumblr (Alts are BumbleBee and Blueprints, they ok)
[ ] Instagram (Fhotoroom, Apict)
[ ] Nike+ fitness tracking (Zombie Run, and Endomodo Sports Tracker)
[ ] Official Pocket (Read it Later) I use Burn it Later for now.

 

[hwalker84]

Ah Chase, there you are. 9 highly important apps I'm missing to go. Still fine using alts, but some official versions of these would be nice.

[x] Chase
[ ] Mint (Use PageOnce for now, barely alright)
[ ] Square (mobile payments)
[ ] Boardgame apps (namely Carcassonne, Ticket to Ride, and Puerto Rico)
[ ] Official Tumblr (Alts are BumbleBee and Blueprints, they ok)
[ ] Instagram (Fhotoroom, Apict)
[ ] Nike+ fitness tracking (Zombie Run, and Endomodo Sports Tracker)
[ ] Official Pocket (Read it Later) I use Burn it Later for now.

I'm still missing a few

[ ]RSA SecureID
[ ]PNC

Am I the only one who loves my sexy White 900? That yellow pops and it helps its pretty much Steelers colors.

 

[JaggedSac]

That's actually really nice looking, and with that incomparable matte feel of my wife's 900, I think that'll be my choice if AT&T offers it.

edit: any chance Nokia uses a more scratch-resistant metal cover on the camera?

If I'm not mistaken, and I often times am mistaken, they said it was a ceramic material this time.

 

[hwalker84]

If I'm not mistaken, and I often times am mistaken, they said it was a ceramic material this time.

I hope so because mine scratched once it hit the air.

 

[dLMN8R]

wow, I never thought I'd be hankering for a sexy gray phone