Our urge to always try something new never ends. Nokia’s Lumia series especially the Lumia 920 isn’t just about a Windows Phone experience. It is far beyond that. While you get all the new features in Windows Phone 8 like the resizable tiles, kids corner and many other little new features, you also get the best of Nokia which obviously includes a phone with tough build quality. You know, unlike the phones that sheds their skin even while shipping 😉 Nokia has added a lot of their exciting services to Windows Phone. Now you get Nokia Music with a year long subscription that gives you access to unlimited music downloads, their excellent Maps app that can take you to your favourite destinations with turn by turn voice navigation and it doesn’t end there. Nokia has also developed many other useful apps like Nokia City Lens, Creative studio, Transfer my data app, Photobeamer and more. Finally, Nokia has always been a pioneer in one more thing. That is the Camera. Nokia has included the Pureview technology in the camera for Lumia 920. This means, you get stunning photos and videos everyday from your phone’s camera.
To be honest, when I first got the Lumia 800, I got really bored of it quickly. Within a day or two, I ran out of features and exciting apps to check out. And it just remained as a regular mobile phone to me. However, Lumia 920 with the new Windows Phone 8 OS and the special Nokia apps with this stunning hardware continues to keep me amazed and excited.
The first thing you note about this phone is the huge screen. The phone comes with 4.5″ screen with Puremotion HD display. When I first heard of it, I really took it granted for a fancy name that these manufacturers come up with. However, its more than that. The screen is really crisp and sharp, thanks to the Clear Black Display. And the PureMotion HD+ display delivers a very bright screen with extra high touch sensitivity. This means, your phone can respond to your touch even when you’re wearing gloves. That’s pretty impressive.
And when you’re using the Lumia 920, you sure know there’s something about the camera that makes this phone special. So yeah, I immediately fired up the camera app after I was done checking out the display and home screen. Lumia 920 has a dedicated camera button to launch the camera app. The camera is 8.7MP to be precise and comes with Pureview technology. I took a few pictures and found them good but not blown away to be honest until I took it for a party. The party was at night and oh boy, you wouldn’t believe the results. I usually take iPhone 5 with me everywhere and we all know it takes good pictures. But the phone always fails to take good shots in low light. I usually end up with poor pictures that has more grains and uneven light distribution caused by the flash. But Lumia 920 really delivered great pictures. It has this feature called focus assist and when that’s turned on, you get some really amazing photos. Be sure to read our full review with samples.
Lumia 920 comes with 32GB memory. Yes, let’s say goodbye to the old 16GB base model phones. I think its really high time that we move to 32GB and higher for the base models. Phones these days shoot and play 1080p videos, apps and games always a few hundred megabytes and some even hit gigabytes in size. It would really be foolish of companies to not provide enough storage to fit them all in the device. It only proves how much less they know about their own product. Overall, the phone is really smooth. The Windows Phone OS is butter smooth and the accompanying hardware of the phone really makes the experience lag free. The phone also gave us impressive battery life. After all, its not that easy to use up the entire 2000mAh battery. On a decently high usage, we squeezed up more than 1.5 days where the device used WiFi all the time for internet connectivity. The phone weighs 185g. Some people call it overweight. I felt it decent. Most of all, the weight gives you a solid feel in the hands.
I’m continuously using the phone more and more to discover and experience everything that this phone has to offer. Windows Phone OS may alone won’t be tempting to many of you out there, but a Windows Phone built by Nokia is really worth considering. Nokia really completes the Windows Phone OS to a great extent. Be sure to check out our full detailed review and videos which will be published soon. Got questions ? Give us a shout out below in the comments section.