Nokia Launches Lumia 920: 8MP PureView, NFC, Wireless Charging, Windows Phone 8

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by Suraj-Sun • 14 years ago

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pearle• 14 years ago

I'm in the market for a new phone to replace my 3 year old 3GS and I'm disappointed that they didn't have any availability announcements. Hopefully this information will be released soon.

mbesto3• 14 years ago

4.5-inch PureMotion HD+ display, dual-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 CPU, 2,000mAh battery, NFC, integrated wireless charging and an 8-megapixel rear PureView camera capable of 1080p video. The display packs WXGA (1,280 x 768) resolution, is 25 percent brighter than the next best panel on the market and it's the fastest LCD that Nokia has ever shipped on a smartphone.

What...on Earth...does this all mean?!? Consumers don't care about any of this. I'm tech savvy and I still don't know why having a 8MP camera makes pictures look any better? Furthermore, I have no idea what my iPhone has in terms in Megapixels, so I have nothing to compare it to...

manojlds4• 14 years ago

Sorry, you are NOT tech savvy if you don't know the pixel count of the phone you own.

Edit: i meant the camera mpx and not screen resolution. If you dont know tha your 8mpx camera phone has 8mpx camera, you are NOT tech savvy.

ceejayoz3• 14 years ago

That's complete and utter bullshit.

potatolicious• 14 years ago

I write iOS apps for a living and found myself looking up the resolution of an iPhone yesterday - this is not something you know by heart. The raw pixel count is simply not relevant except for a small number of cases.

AlisdairO• 14 years ago

Rubbish. I'm by pretty much any measure tech savvy, and I simply don't care about what the pixel count of my phone is. Is it enough? Then job done. I'll spend my time caring about stuff that makes a difference to me.

mbesto3• 14 years ago

I don't think most consumers know how much MPs are in the camera, nor have any idea what the number means in terms of picture quality. Hence this: http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/mpmyth.htm

daeken2• 14 years ago

I work on a smartphone OS for a living (Boot2Gecko) and yet, I have no idea what the pixel count on my Galaxy Nexus (my personal phone) is, or that of the last two phones I owned (Samsung Focus and HTC HD7). It's not something I care to know about my phone; all I care about is that it looks sharp.

mtgx2• 14 years ago

I just love how they are calling it HD+, because it has a 1280x768 resolution instead of 1280x720. Was that really worth a whole new marketing term?

sp3322• 14 years ago

It think it's trying to head off customers who complain about the black bars around their 720p videos.

yread• 14 years ago

What's wrong with listing the specs? Should they rather say that it's magical and changes everything? Again?

untog2• 14 years ago

You're reading Engadget. What did you expect? They live for specs.

I very much doubt the actual consumer pitch is going to be like this.

mbesto3• 14 years ago

Fair point. Maybe it's because I'm not an avid mobile gamer, but what apps demand specs like this? I guess even in a technical discussion, I would expect to see some benchmarking like "2,000mAh battery provides 2.5h more hours of battery life, etc"

Geee2• 14 years ago

Then this video is for you, there's also one comparison shot with a 'leading smartphone': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8_Z7_kJ3_g

The optical image stabilization is nothing short of revolutionary on this device. It enables both smooth video and low-light images. See the comparisons in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cimDfEIEiu0

untog2• 14 years ago

The first video is just nonsense, but if that second one is accurate it shows just how game-changing this stuff could be. I would buy a phone for the image stabilization alone.

wisty• 14 years ago

> I'm tech savvy and I still don't know why having a 8MP camera makes pictures look any better?

It means you need a slightly larger SD card, to store all the sensor noise.

JimmaDaRustla• 14 years ago

> Consumers don't care about any of this

But they do care - everything about a phone is what makes it. My GF doesn't are about the HP in my car, but she does care about how fast it goes when she presses the pedal, therefore, she does care about HP.

The specifications are not rendered moot because someone, like yourself, is too short minded to realize them...but unlike you, they know enough to keep their ignorance inside their head.

j_col• 14 years ago

Wireless charging comes three years after Palm.

IanDrake• 14 years ago

And it still remains to be seen if it sticks this time. Funny how "innovation" works like this.

markmm2• 14 years ago

This baby is going to sell hundreds if not a thousand units.

pycassa• 14 years ago

i hope they sell millions

lmm• 14 years ago

8 is enough megapixels, but will it have the proper flash of some of the pre-windows nokia models? That's the one thing I really miss from modern smartphones.

exit• 14 years ago

what does 920 refer to?

markmm2• 14 years ago

The final number of units sold.

llgrrl_• 14 years ago

Number of units they will sell.

KeyBoardG• 14 years ago

The 900 was their last flagship Lumia device so, as this model is the next generation they've incremented the number.

bbayer• 14 years ago

I believe it is hard to be successful if they able to compete on price. If they release this phone with same price as iPhone or Galaxy S, people will choose others.

ghshephard• 14 years ago

Why on earth aren't they announcing pricing and availability?

smacktoward2• 14 years ago

The Lumia 920 will arrive in pentaband LTE and HSPA+ variants and both are expected to ship "in selected markets" later this year.

"Later this year"?

I hate it when companies do this. Hate hate HATE it.

"Here's something awesome! Want it? OK, come back a few months from now and we'll sell you one. What? No, we can't tell you exactly when. We can't even tell you yet what it will cost. It'll be a few months, and cost some amount of money, that's all you need to know."

Then the few months pass, all the hype dies away, and when the device launches for real, nobody buys one.

I'm sure there's a marketing rationale for doing things this way, but I can't see it. What good is all this press attention now, when you can't actually take orders for the thing the press is raving about? When your ability to do so is so far away that you can't even give a specific date?

mtgx2• 14 years ago

I agree this happens way more often than it should, but in this particular case, I think they were just trying to disrupt the Apple event and the buzz gathering around it. If they were confident in their devices they wouldn't need to do this, and they wouldn't need to use misleading marketing terms like PureView (when it's not PureView) and HD+ either.

shahidhussain• 14 years ago

I'm going to guess at:

* Let the public markets know there's something good in the pipeline to keep the stock price as a decent level

* Let the distributors / carriers know (+ no worries about leaks)

* In some ways, it's better than the alternative of a leak, where all the marketing messages come from some crappy blurry cam mixed with a bunch of fake images

I agree it's a little risky from the consumer's POV. Bear in mind a couple things though:

* Even for consumers, when it gets released, they feel more positive towards a product they've heard of previously

* It's possible that the interest will be maintained over that period, although this is a stretch for anyone that isn't amazing at marketing.

smacktoward2• 14 years ago

When managers put "keeping the stock price at a decent level" over "selling a metric ton of our products," they've lost the game before even taking the field. Sigh.

sv123• 14 years ago

Indeed, I will most likely be pre-ordering the new iPhone at some point next week. If this phone were going to be out any time soon I may have given it a second thought.

GBKS• 14 years ago

The focus on the yellow phone is an unfortunate decision. The bright yellow creates extreme contrast with the black frame and background, and the white icons are barely visible.

rcgs2• 14 years ago

I suspect they'll look better in the flesh.

sp3322• 14 years ago

None of the current theme colors are hard to read, even "pink" and "teal". I think in real life they're more careful about readability. And they're focusing on new colors because a lot of people were frustrated that there were only 2 (now 4) colors of the Lumia 900.

zurn• 14 years ago

The camera's selling point is the optical image stabilization which counters camera shake at low light, slow shutter shots. That sounds very good...

moystard• 14 years ago

Leaking everything before the actual event happened was a huge mistake. No surprise during the event, no excitement, no clapping on features announcement... The event looked and sounded boring when what they were actually announcing was cool.

Maascamp• 14 years ago

I really like the look of this phone. I've been an Android guy since I left my venerable Blackberry Bold 9000, but I find myself really attracted to the interface of WP7/8. With a phone of this build quality, it's enough to make me give it a shot for my next upgrade.

shmerl• 14 years ago

Nokia's giving away Qt was the final sign of their move towards the road of no return. It was good for Qt though, since Nokia has no interest in it anymore and could only hinder any progress. Nokia is history now.

yalogin• 14 years ago

I have always liked the Lumia series. But its becoming a pain to decide to support all these new devices and operating systems for my small little app. Way too many of these OS versions and form factors to worry/think about.

Nokia Launches Lumia 920: 8MP PureView, NFC, Wireless Charging, Windows Phone 8

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