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Non-biased Lumia 920 Review
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What was Nokia thinking in releasing such a subpar phone?
It has no chance to make a dent in the highly competitive smartphone market dominated by Samsung and Apple, or even attract the ex-RIM crowd.
After almost 2-months of continuous testing, the Lumia 920 is probably one of the worst smartphone that I have tried lately.
Here are my 5 top reasons not to buy it, even on sale at $40 on Amazon:
it’s bulky,
heavy,
overheats,
has a short battery life,
and takes blurry pictures.
So when I see glorifying reviews of the Lumia 920 from around the Web – like the UK’s Independent (most advanced smartphone) or Mark Cuban‘s (crushes the iPhone 5) – I wonder if their hatred for the iPhone or Google‘s Android – or their love for Microsoft Windows – ran so deep that it distorted their reality field.
On the hardware side, the Lumia 920 is simply dreadful. Despite the heavy weight and thickness, the phone’s short battery life is a mystery to me.
Under “normal” condition, i.e. regular data usage (emails/texts, Facebook but no Netflix), phone calls, photos and some apps (Evernote, Kindle, Yelp), the Lumia will barely survive until mid-afternoon. If I dare use the GPS/Maps it dies by noon. And that’s after switching to a second unit after the first one simply died after I tried to reset it! Fortunately, Nokia’s very able PR agency overnighted another one so I could continue testing.
Despite all the praise and the marketing around the Lumia PureView integrated camera, the results were a constant disappointment. The phone is slow at taking pictures that end up systematically a bit blur and is simply unusable under low light. In comparison, the iPhone 5 camera did a good job under the same conditions, which I’m sure is also the case with the Galaxy S3.
The videos were no better in quality and the lack of a one-click upload option to YouTube made it too hard for me to upload them. I had to either transfer the videos to my Mac – luckily Microsoft has a very good Windows Phone for Mac software – or transfer it to my Microsoft Skydrive online storage space, and then upload it to YouTube.
At this point, the Lumia 920 was a non-starter. However, the phone had some features I really enjoyed, like its sturdiness – I accidentally dropped it from hip level on concrete which caused a little bend on the corner -, that I could use gloves to operate the touch screen – it was getting so cold in the Bay Area that I needed some! -, Nokia Maps and Drive and the Office applications.
The Microsoft Windows Phone 8 software that runs the phone took some time getting used to, coming from iOS or Android. I didn’t like the “Start” screen with the icons that I had to manually size myself – luckily I didn’t have much to add -, the lack of a “Favorites” on the Phone app, the “fuzzy” randomness of the pictures displayed by the Photo app, and that irritating “cursor” that is so hard to move to a particular place in a text. However, I liked the Facebook integration and how easy it was to add email accounts.
Overall, the Lumia 920 was a real disappointment, knowing Nokia’s long history and experience in this space. Thus it pains me to say that, if you want to stick with Windows Phone 8, HTC’s lighter and thinner 8X looks like a much better alternative.
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____
What was Nokia thinking in releasing such a subpar phone?
It has no chance to make a dent in the highly competitive smartphone market dominated by Samsung and Apple, or even attract the ex-RIM crowd.
After almost 2-months of continuous testing, the Lumia 920 is probably one of the worst smartphone that I have tried lately.
Here are my 5 top reasons not to buy it, even on sale at $40 on Amazon:
it’s bulky,
heavy,
overheats,
has a short battery life,
and takes blurry pictures.
So when I see glorifying reviews of the Lumia 920 from around the Web – like the UK’s Independent (most advanced smartphone) or Mark Cuban‘s (crushes the iPhone 5) – I wonder if their hatred for the iPhone or Google‘s Android – or their love for Microsoft Windows – ran so deep that it distorted their reality field.
On the hardware side, the Lumia 920 is simply dreadful. Despite the heavy weight and thickness, the phone’s short battery life is a mystery to me.
Under “normal” condition, i.e. regular data usage (emails/texts, Facebook but no Netflix), phone calls, photos and some apps (Evernote, Kindle, Yelp), the Lumia will barely survive until mid-afternoon. If I dare use the GPS/Maps it dies by noon. And that’s after switching to a second unit after the first one simply died after I tried to reset it! Fortunately, Nokia’s very able PR agency overnighted another one so I could continue testing.
Despite all the praise and the marketing around the Lumia PureView integrated camera, the results were a constant disappointment. The phone is slow at taking pictures that end up systematically a bit blur and is simply unusable under low light. In comparison, the iPhone 5 camera did a good job under the same conditions, which I’m sure is also the case with the Galaxy S3.
The videos were no better in quality and the lack of a one-click upload option to YouTube made it too hard for me to upload them. I had to either transfer the videos to my Mac – luckily Microsoft has a very good Windows Phone for Mac software – or transfer it to my Microsoft Skydrive online storage space, and then upload it to YouTube.
At this point, the Lumia 920 was a non-starter. However, the phone had some features I really enjoyed, like its sturdiness – I accidentally dropped it from hip level on concrete which caused a little bend on the corner -, that I could use gloves to operate the touch screen – it was getting so cold in the Bay Area that I needed some! -, Nokia Maps and Drive and the Office applications.
The Microsoft Windows Phone 8 software that runs the phone took some time getting used to, coming from iOS or Android. I didn’t like the “Start” screen with the icons that I had to manually size myself – luckily I didn’t have much to add -, the lack of a “Favorites” on the Phone app, the “fuzzy” randomness of the pictures displayed by the Photo app, and that irritating “cursor” that is so hard to move to a particular place in a text. However, I liked the Facebook integration and how easy it was to add email accounts.
Overall, the Lumia 920 was a real disappointment, knowing Nokia’s long history and experience in this space. Thus it pains me to say that, if you want to stick with Windows Phone 8, HTC’s lighter and thinner 8X looks like a much better alternative.
Favorites kan han lave ganske simpelt via en gruppe. De random pics kan han nemt slå fra. Tiles skal han ikke selv justere, han kan bare lade dem være standard størrelse..
Når man som anmelder fremhæver ting som negativt bør man som minimum have undersøgt om det er en selv der gør noget forkert.
Når man som anmelder fremhæver ting som negativt bør man som minimum have undersøgt om det er en selv der gør noget forkert.
Nu vil jeg gerne på banene ang. Lumi 920.
Jeg har haft min siden december... eller har haft den men være til rep.
Jeg prøver virkelig at give den chancer uanset hvad folk siger. Men det er som om, at der virkeligt er noget galt med den telefon.
Jeg har en Lumia 800 og jeg er virkelig glad for nokia telefoner. Jeg har haft mange andre mærker, men er vendt tilbage til nokia og deres "kvalitet".
Men jeg er satme også skuffet over Lumia 920. Den tager sløret billeder, selvom jeg har prøvet alt.. det er kun i dagslys, altså hvor der virkeligt er meget lys, at den tager gode billeder, hvis der er lidt skygge så er de meget sløret.
Jeg vi faktisk give ham ret i de ting han skriver.
Min holdt ikke strøm ordenligt, gik i sort, hvor den skulle soft resettes, for at få gang i den. Sendte den ind til rep, hvor den blev sendt videre til nokia high lvl værksted, og her skiftede de batteri på den. Havde den i EEN dag, og samme problemer.. Nu er den sendt ind igen.
- Elendig batteri tid - ved normalt brug få sms'er, facebook, mails og få opkald(selvom de skiftede batteri på den)
- dårlige billeder (medmindre der er LYYYYST)
- varm ! den blev meget varm
ellers fungerede den fint i den tid jeg havde den, bortset fra den skulle lades konstant!
men ja, nu har jeg den ikke for den er til rep, derfor bruger jeg min Lumia 800, som er MEGET stabil.
Jeg har haft min siden december... eller har haft den men være til rep.
Jeg prøver virkelig at give den chancer uanset hvad folk siger. Men det er som om, at der virkeligt er noget galt med den telefon.
Jeg har en Lumia 800 og jeg er virkelig glad for nokia telefoner. Jeg har haft mange andre mærker, men er vendt tilbage til nokia og deres "kvalitet".
Men jeg er satme også skuffet over Lumia 920. Den tager sløret billeder, selvom jeg har prøvet alt.. det er kun i dagslys, altså hvor der virkeligt er meget lys, at den tager gode billeder, hvis der er lidt skygge så er de meget sløret.
Jeg vi faktisk give ham ret i de ting han skriver.
Min holdt ikke strøm ordenligt, gik i sort, hvor den skulle soft resettes, for at få gang i den. Sendte den ind til rep, hvor den blev sendt videre til nokia high lvl værksted, og her skiftede de batteri på den. Havde den i EEN dag, og samme problemer.. Nu er den sendt ind igen.
- Elendig batteri tid - ved normalt brug få sms'er, facebook, mails og få opkald(selvom de skiftede batteri på den)
- dårlige billeder (medmindre der er LYYYYST)
- varm ! den blev meget varm
ellers fungerede den fint i den tid jeg havde den, bortset fra den skulle lades konstant!
men ja, nu har jeg den ikke for den er til rep, derfor bruger jeg min Lumia 800, som er MEGET stabil.
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