The Nokia 920: A Windows Phone with a Unique Twist

The Nokia 920 is a Windows phone that offers a unique twist on the traditional smartphone experience. The phone's home screen features live tiles, which are small, customizable windows that display information such as weather forecasts, news headlines, and social media updates. These tiles can be rearranged to suit individual preferences, making it easy to keep track of important information without having to constantly check multiple apps.

One of the standout features of the Nokia 920 is its capacitive controls. Located at the bottom of the screen, these controls include search, which brings up Bing and allows users to search for anything they want online. The search function is quick and efficient, making it easy to find information or complete tasks. Additionally, tapping and holding the back button allows users to access recently launched apps, while tapping and holding the home button brings up voice controls.

The camera on the Nokia 920 is another notable feature. With a 8-megapixel sensor, the phone can take high-quality photos and videos. The camera also features Bing vision, which allows users to snap bar codes, QR codes, and text with the camera. This makes it easy to quickly scan information or communicate with others. Additionally, the camera has various modes such as flash, front-facing camera, and video mode, allowing users to customize their photography experience.

The Nokia 920 also comes preloaded with a variety of apps from Microsoft and Nokia. These include Office, which integrates with Office 365 and SkyDrive for online storage, Xbox Music, and Xbox Game, among others. The phone also has a mapping app that allows users to download maps for offline navigation, making it easy to navigate unfamiliar areas.

The display on the Nokia 920 is another notable feature. With a 4.5-inch IPS LCD screen and a resolution of 1280 x 768 pixels, the phone offers crisp and clear visuals. The screen is also touch-sensitive, making it easy to interact with. The phone's design is sleek and modern, with a curved unibody shell made of plastic.

One thing that stands out about the Nokia 920 is its weight. Weighing in at 185 grams, the phone is heavier than the iPhone 5, which weighs around 112 grams. This may not be an issue for everyone, but it's worth noting when considering purchasing a new phone.

Overall, the Nokia 920 offers a unique twist on the traditional smartphone experience. Its live tiles, capacitive controls, and camera are all standout features that make this phone stand out from the crowd. While there may be some limitations to the Windows Phone ecosystem at present, the Nokia 920 is definitely worth considering for those looking for a new smartphone.

The User Interface

Windows 8 on the Nokia 920 offers an incredibly smooth user interface experience. The phone never seems to lag or stutter, even when switching between different apps and features. This is due in part to the phone's powerful processor and ample RAM. Additionally, the live tiles make it easy to access important information without having to constantly check multiple apps.

The use of Windows 8 on the Nokia 920 also means that the phone has a unique design element - the need to drag your finger across the edges of the display to activate certain UI elements. While this may take some getting used to, it's an interesting twist on traditional smartphone interfaces.

Design

The Nokia 920 has a classic design with a curved unibody shell made of plastic. The black version and Scion version have a matte finish, while the yellow, red, white, and pink versions have a glossy finish. This makes the phone easy to grip and hold, even when wet or dirty.

One thing that stands out about the Nokia 920 is its weight. Weighing in at 185 grams, the phone is heavier than the iPhone 5, which weighs around 112 grams. This may not be an issue for everyone, but it's worth noting when considering purchasing a new phone.

Display

The display on the Nokia 920 is one of the best I've used on a smartphone. The 4.5-inch IPS LCD screen has a resolution of 1280 x 768 pixels, making it crisp and clear to look at. The screen also has a nice curved edge, which makes it easy to navigate the phone's live tiles.

The display is also touch-sensitive, making it easy to interact with. The Nokia 920 also features a capacitive touchscreen, which allows for smooth and accurate navigation.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up guys Mike here the Detroit Borg with an unboxing and first look at the new Nokia Lumia 920 now this is Nokia's flagship phone sporting Windows 8 and some of the changes to Windows 8 now makes it possible for the manufacturers to really beef up the specs of these windows phones so the 920 is sporting a Snapdragon s4 dual-core processor running at 1.5 gigahertz with one gig of internal RAM internally you get 32 gigs of storage and no microSD expansion we also get interesting features like inductive charging NFC and Nokia's PureView camera which uses mechanical stabilization to increase low-light performance of the camera we also have a 4.5 inch clear black capacitive touchscreen display which can actually function while using light winter gloves you can actually use this while using gloves first thing we'll find is a Quick Start Guide and I'll take you through some of the basic features of using the 920 on Windows 8 below that is our plastic wrap 920 which we'll get to in just a minute 18t also includes a sim ejection tool now of course we do get some more paperwork here including a sheet to demo the NFC technology we also get a nokia branded USB wall charger as well as a micro USB cable for charging nobody absent here are a pair of headphones I guess you'll need to bring your own or you can pick them up at the AT&T store when you buy your phone now onto our AT&T branded 920 we can see that the sheets covering the phone explains some of the ports and buttons which are arranged a little differently if you're not used to a Windows Phone now along the right side we'll find the camera button at the bottom the power button toward the middle and the volume rocker toward the top at the top edge of the phone we'll find the microphone headphone jack and micro SIM tray at the bottom will find our microUSB port and the speakers and microphones on the back we'll find Nokia's hallmark feature which is the PureView camera sporting an eight point seven megapixel sensor with mechanical stabilization so this gives us 1080p HD video with auto focusing at 30 frames per second we also get a pair of LEDs for an extra bright flash now on the front we'll find a fairly standard 1.2 megapixel camera for 720p video right next to the earpiece and proximity and ambient light sensor not the bottom will find our capacitive backlit buttons for back home and search now Windows Phone 8 is pretty familiar terra-tory here complete with a home screen full of live tiles which consciously feed information and notifications from the apps and other resources like your social networks now if you swipe from the right of the screen you can bring up your complete a place which is where you can pin additional apps to the home screen by tapping and holding on them once on the home screen you can tap and hold on any of the live tiles to move them around you can also toggle through the various tile sizes and you can unpin them if you want to get them off your home screen now if you swipe down from the top edge of the sleigh you can bring up things like your clock the connection status and your battery indicator which you won't find here are notifications which only appear in the app tiles themselves on the home screen now at the bottom we'll find our capacitive controls which includes search which of course brings up Bing now if we search for a term we can then scroll left and right to search various categories in Bing including media locations and shopping you can also tap the microphone for a quick voice search now if we tap and hold the back button we can get back to some of our recently launched apps now tapping and holding the home button brings up voice controls which can perform a variety of tasks such as calling a contact or launching apps you can even make a note you can also ask questions like how's the weather tomorrow but it doesn't give you information like Siri and instead performs of being searched now you can bring up the camera simply by tapping the camera button along the side to snap a photo you can hit that same button again you can also tap and hold the screen to take a photo and then swipe right to get back to your image you also have the standard array of toggles for turning the flash on and off switching to the front-facing camera or activating video mode now in video mode you can begin recording by tapping the shutter release or tapping the screen now if you tap the Settings button indicated by those three dots in the upper corner you can get additional control such as ISO and exposure values the camera also features something called Bing vision which allows you to snap things such as bar codes QR codes and even text with the camera so for example if I use this feature to snap photos of text it automatically highlights the text in that photograph and here I can use features such as translate or I can tap individual words to perform a Bing search now as for apps this phone is preloaded with a combination of apps from 18t Nokia and Microsoft so we get a standard array of Microsoft phone apps such as ie mail contacts photographs messaging and the phone app you also have the xbox media app for purchasing music movies and managing other content such as podcast subscriptions we also have the Xbox game app which is where you can log into your Xbox accounts and launch a variety of mobile apps such as Angry Birds microsoft also has a mobile version of its office suite which integrates with office 365 as well as SkyDrive for online storage AT&T has also added a variety of apps including their subscription-based navigation service the u-verse TV app as well as subscription-based online radio app for streaming local radio stations or others to your phone nokia has also added its own navigation and mapping app which includes features such as map downloads for offline navigation now the Lumias display is one of the best i've used we have a not too large 4.5 inch IPS LCD screen with a resolution of 1280 by 768 for a PPI of 332 which is right up there with the iPhone 5 colors are very sharp and accurate while blacks look pretty deep especially for an LCD screen now Windows 8 looks incredibly smooth on the 920 it never seems to lag or stutter and as always silky smooth no matter what especially for windows 8 which is a pretty graphically intensive user interface nice for design the phone has that typical Nokia design with that curved unibody design made out of plastic now the black version and scion version have a matte finish while the yellow red white and pink versions have a glossy ER finish now the gorilla glass display also has a nice curved edge which is kind of an important design element for the use of Windows 8 which requires you kinda to drag your finger across the edges of the display to activate certain UI elements now for me the thing that stands out right away is how heavy this phone is especially compared to the iPhone 5 so it weighs about 185 grams while the iPhone 5 weighs about 112 so that's quite a significant difference and you really feel it when you're holding the phone or if it's in your pocket now over I'm pretty impressed by the Nokia 920 especially the user interface which is very different from Android or iPhone and she seems to be quite a step above I love the live tile concept and you know certainly there are some limits especially because there is a lot of content for Windows Phone 8 at this time but at least what you have here is a good start so hopefully we'll see more coming out of the windows 8 ecosystem at some point in the future and they've definitely started off with a pretty interesting device so that's going to do for me in this video thanks for watching and I'll see you again in the next onewhat's up guys Mike here the Detroit Borg with an unboxing and first look at the new Nokia Lumia 920 now this is Nokia's flagship phone sporting Windows 8 and some of the changes to Windows 8 now makes it possible for the manufacturers to really beef up the specs of these windows phones so the 920 is sporting a Snapdragon s4 dual-core processor running at 1.5 gigahertz with one gig of internal RAM internally you get 32 gigs of storage and no microSD expansion we also get interesting features like inductive charging NFC and Nokia's PureView camera which uses mechanical stabilization to increase low-light performance of the camera we also have a 4.5 inch clear black capacitive touchscreen display which can actually function while using light winter gloves you can actually use this while using gloves first thing we'll find is a Quick Start Guide and I'll take you through some of the basic features of using the 920 on Windows 8 below that is our plastic wrap 920 which we'll get to in just a minute 18t also includes a sim ejection tool now of course we do get some more paperwork here including a sheet to demo the NFC technology we also get a nokia branded USB wall charger as well as a micro USB cable for charging nobody absent here are a pair of headphones I guess you'll need to bring your own or you can pick them up at the AT&T store when you buy your phone now onto our AT&T branded 920 we can see that the sheets covering the phone explains some of the ports and buttons which are arranged a little differently if you're not used to a Windows Phone now along the right side we'll find the camera button at the bottom the power button toward the middle and the volume rocker toward the top at the top edge of the phone we'll find the microphone headphone jack and micro SIM tray at the bottom will find our microUSB port and the speakers and microphones on the back we'll find Nokia's hallmark feature which is the PureView camera sporting an eight point seven megapixel sensor with mechanical stabilization so this gives us 1080p HD video with auto focusing at 30 frames per second we also get a pair of LEDs for an extra bright flash now on the front we'll find a fairly standard 1.2 megapixel camera for 720p video right next to the earpiece and proximity and ambient light sensor not the bottom will find our capacitive backlit buttons for back home and search now Windows Phone 8 is pretty familiar terra-tory here complete with a home screen full of live tiles which consciously feed information and notifications from the apps and other resources like your social networks now if you swipe from the right of the screen you can bring up your complete a place which is where you can pin additional apps to the home screen by tapping and holding on them once on the home screen you can tap and hold on any of the live tiles to move them around you can also toggle through the various tile sizes and you can unpin them if you want to get them off your home screen now if you swipe down from the top edge of the sleigh you can bring up things like your clock the connection status and your battery indicator which you won't find here are notifications which only appear in the app tiles themselves on the home screen now at the bottom we'll find our capacitive controls which includes search which of course brings up Bing now if we search for a term we can then scroll left and right to search various categories in Bing including media locations and shopping you can also tap the microphone for a quick voice search now if we tap and hold the back button we can get back to some of our recently launched apps now tapping and holding the home button brings up voice controls which can perform a variety of tasks such as calling a contact or launching apps you can even make a note you can also ask questions like how's the weather tomorrow but it doesn't give you information like Siri and instead performs of being searched now you can bring up the camera simply by tapping the camera button along the side to snap a photo you can hit that same button again you can also tap and hold the screen to take a photo and then swipe right to get back to your image you also have the standard array of toggles for turning the flash on and off switching to the front-facing camera or activating video mode now in video mode you can begin recording by tapping the shutter release or tapping the screen now if you tap the Settings button indicated by those three dots in the upper corner you can get additional control such as ISO and exposure values the camera also features something called Bing vision which allows you to snap things such as bar codes QR codes and even text with the camera so for example if I use this feature to snap photos of text it automatically highlights the text in that photograph and here I can use features such as translate or I can tap individual words to perform a Bing search now as for apps this phone is preloaded with a combination of apps from 18t Nokia and Microsoft so we get a standard array of Microsoft phone apps such as ie mail contacts photographs messaging and the phone app you also have the xbox media app for purchasing music movies and managing other content such as podcast subscriptions we also have the Xbox game app which is where you can log into your Xbox accounts and launch a variety of mobile apps such as Angry Birds microsoft also has a mobile version of its office suite which integrates with office 365 as well as SkyDrive for online storage AT&T has also added a variety of apps including their subscription-based navigation service the u-verse TV app as well as subscription-based online radio app for streaming local radio stations or others to your phone nokia has also added its own navigation and mapping app which includes features such as map downloads for offline navigation now the Lumias display is one of the best i've used we have a not too large 4.5 inch IPS LCD screen with a resolution of 1280 by 768 for a PPI of 332 which is right up there with the iPhone 5 colors are very sharp and accurate while blacks look pretty deep especially for an LCD screen now Windows 8 looks incredibly smooth on the 920 it never seems to lag or stutter and as always silky smooth no matter what especially for windows 8 which is a pretty graphically intensive user interface nice for design the phone has that typical Nokia design with that curved unibody design made out of plastic now the black version and scion version have a matte finish while the yellow red white and pink versions have a glossy ER finish now the gorilla glass display also has a nice curved edge which is kind of an important design element for the use of Windows 8 which requires you kinda to drag your finger across the edges of the display to activate certain UI elements now for me the thing that stands out right away is how heavy this phone is especially compared to the iPhone 5 so it weighs about 185 grams while the iPhone 5 weighs about 112 so that's quite a significant difference and you really feel it when you're holding the phone or if it's in your pocket now over I'm pretty impressed by the Nokia 920 especially the user interface which is very different from Android or iPhone and she seems to be quite a step above I love the live tile concept and you know certainly there are some limits especially because there is a lot of content for Windows Phone 8 at this time but at least what you have here is a good start so hopefully we'll see more coming out of the windows 8 ecosystem at some point in the future and they've definitely started off with a pretty interesting device so that's going to do for me in this video thanks for watching and I'll see you again in the next one\n"