Not to be outdone by Motorola’s event today Nokia annouced its newest handset the Lumia 920. What can we expect from the Lumia 920 get the deets afte the break
Nokia has packed the 920 with a bevy of novel, exciting features; but first let’s talk about speed. With a dual-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 processor and 1GB of RAM, the 920 leaves previous Lumia generations in the dust. More importantly though, it’s as fast as the Samsung Galaxy S III and HTC One X, at least according to Gizmodo’s hands-on report. And unless the rumor mill has been underestimating Apple, it’s not unlikely the Lumia 920 will be able to keep up with the iPhone 5 too. All that power requires, well, power, but Nokia assures us the 920’s beefy 2,000mAh battery is up to the task.
The Lumia 920’s NFC chip and Qi-standard wireless charging support should make for some pretty awesome accessories, and ought to keep the device (foreseeable-)future-proof as mobile payment infrastructures expand and wireless charging becomes more commonplace.
he phone’s 4.5-inch screen, which boasts a resolution of 1,280 x 768 pixels, is super responsive in more ways than one. Hands-on reports are reporting no detectable touch latency, and Nokia’s Kevin Shields demonstrated the 920 this morning while wearing a pair of fuzzy mittens.
The 8.7-megapixel PureView camera will likely be one of the Lumia 920’s top selling-points. Integrated image-stabilization and 1080p video is all well and good (okay, it’s awesome), but what got us most excited is the Cinemagraph app, which promises to make it just as easy to waste entire days making your own animated gifs as it’s always been to waste entire days looking at gifs.
For the smartphone mortals among us, Nokia has also updated its mid-range Lumia 800. The Lumia 820 looks to be the 920’s scrappy younger brother. A slightly smaller (4.3-inch) display with half the pixel-count and no PureView upgrade for the camera are the chief differences, though on the 820 wireless charging becomes an optional feature.
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