As for HDMI out, i suspect Micosoft wants to drive consumers towards Smart Glass and Xbox solution. But they did add support for wifi direct so buying an adapter for your TV should give you an Apple TV like experience. But that probably wont help if you are trying to connect it to a hotell room TV or a friends TV lol
Exactly my point. DLNA, Smart Glass and WiFi Direct is pretty much useless when I want to run content in a hotel's/friend's TV, which corresponds to every single time I've wanted to run content from my smartphone to anything else.
You really think so?
It seems like all they've been doing is recycling the
N9 design
over, and
over, and
overagain. Did Nokia run out of designers?
And honestly, the large bezel gives it somewhat of a 2010 feeling.
What happened to these?
Now
there's something that might have shaken things up.
Another N9 recycled drawing is starting to feel boring.
In particular the camera and the high refresh rate screen. They moved to an IPS screen from an AMOLED screen, that'll save some power.
Wut? I don't know about size requirements, but I'm pretty sure AMOLED takes less juice, even more in WP8 with lots of black backgrounds.
The weight seems high, but the rest of the dimensions are comparable AFAICT.
That's the thing, it's really not comparable.. at 185g it's over 30% heavier than the ~140g average from the other superphones (and
heavier than the Note II with its gigantic 5.5" screen and 3300mAh battery), and it's around 20% larger (in volume) than the competitors with larger screens, IPS or AMOLED:
And all of these have Micro-SD slots too (though they say the micro-sd inclusion would "
defile the form", lulz@ artistoid excuse), plus except the EVO 4G all of these have larger batteries too.
Where did you get the 1/3 from ? Nokia claims light sensitivity of 5-10x that of normal cell phone sensors. That would indicate a largish sensor, which would explain why the 920 is 1.5mm thicker than the GS3.
(actually, it's over 2mm thicker)
It's in the
phone's own specs over at Nokia's website.
It's 1/3" BSI, not much larger than all those 1/3.2" BSI in everything galaxies and iphones, so the camera sensor is definitely not the culprit here.
Maybe it's that gloves touch thingie?
Didn't you get the memo? Wireless is the future
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MS wants to push Smart Glass.
Yeah, and I want to push things up Microsoft's bottom for trying to push things into me by cutting on the features.
Instead, I'll just vote with my wallet and not buy their WP8 stuff.
You push things by providing an additional alternative that people will find better/easier to use, not by saying "oh, we've cut on that because we're trying to force you to adopt that other thing".
Unless you are apple, which Microsoft is not, nor Nokia.
Photos supposedly taken by the new Lumias were apparently faked.
This isn't (wasn't) Nokia at all.. Using that kind of undehanded tricks makes think the "PureView" branding in Lumia 920 is just a way to milk the franchise created by the 808 by just putting the label into a random product.
Of course, this is the general problem with WP. Tiles or not, it hasn't so far made a compelling case in UX to divert massive sales from iOS and Android phones. Why couldn't Elop see this fact?
UX is now negligible in comparison to the mass adoption of Android/iOS and their phone+tablet ecossystems.
There should have never been WP8, only Windows RT with phone functionality. Splitting between tablet/pc and phones may be the OS' ultimate demise.
And Elop sees nothing, he only does what he's told.