Nokia Lumia 920

[GT100]

Had one of these for a few weeks now, and I love it.

Likes

Camera Nokia Cameras have always been good, but this is better than usual. Takes excellent pics in low light and has some cracking photo editing apps bundled, and has a good panorama app too.

Music Nokia Music player with Nokia Music Store and Microsoft's Music offer too. I use the Nokia Service which has a Mix Radio feature which lets you stream or download a huge selection of music in "mixes" for free. It's also completely cured the problems I was having with my last phone in playing over Bluetooth in the Wind. I get track info and control from the stalk every time now.

Travel Services Another Nokia Strong point. Comes bundled with Nokia Drive which provides a full, free offline Satnav service with speed camera locations, speed limit warnings and route guidance with street names. Also bundled is Nokia Public Transport, Nokia Maps and the Nokia City Lens. City Lens is a bit gimmicky, but it did come in useful when we were in London the other week in taking us right to the front door of a wicked pub in Covent Garden.

Look & Build The shop hadn't got any of the coloured ones so it was a choice between Black or White. I went with White. It looks very minimalist, and I think, very very cool. It also has Nokia's renowned build quality - there's already a video on Youtube of someone using the screen on one to hammer nails into wood, attacking it with a knife, a hammer and other stuff and it survives!

Nokia Reading News & Sport service that pulls from many news organisations with a Live Tile. Also is an eBook reader with a link to Nokia's Bookstore.

Windows 8 Phone I really like the OS. Live Tiles work really well, the OS is fast and fluid and it looks really neat. To me, it makes Andriod and iOS look like clones of one another.

Dislikes

Heavy It is, a bit of a Brick

Apps There's a reasonable spread on the App Store, but nowhere near what's available on 'Droid or iOS. Notable absences include iPlayer, LoveFilm, 4OD, ITV Player etc, which is made worse by the mobile web sites for those services not working either. Browser choice is limited to IE10, IE10, or IE10. Microsoft & Nokia are plugging some of the gaps and producing their own Apps, but they need to be persuading developers to come to the party, a bit like the early days of Xbox.

7/10

 

[lgonzalez]

Cool. I'm thinking about getting one of these.

 

[133_Ads]

I've had the 820 for just over a month and cant complain!

 

[DrDrew]

They seem pretty good. Definitely solid as a brick, and since I've been doing some windows phone 8 dev work I've had a chance to play with the OS, and some bits of it are quite nice. It's still got a few things lacking, but it's getting there.

The lumia 820/920 are definitely worth having a look at if you're in the market for a new smartphone and are not specifically pre-aligned to another system

 

[dw118]

Would get one of these when my iPhone contract runs out , looks good and spe looks good too.

Does this phone work ok with the twingos hands free, as my old Nokia didn't on my other twingo, ( Nokia n900) couldn't make calls only recieve and wouldn't come up with the contacts name just number so was hard to tell who was calling without answering

 

[maggi200]

I'm after a nexus 4 when it's in stock. Then sim only contract. Might not be quite as quick as an s3 apparently but it has loads in its favour before price and if android is your bag then it's a winner.

I tried to look at the 920 but the shops in town had the 900 and 820 and no 920. Either way, I played with what there was and windows mobile is not for me

 

[GT100]

Would get one of these when my iPhone contract runs out , looks good and spe looks good too.

Does this phone work ok with the twingos hands free, as my old Nokia didn't on my other twingo, ( Nokia n900) couldn't make calls only recieve and wouldn't come up with the contacts name just number so was hard to tell who was calling without answering

The Wind has the same head unit, and yes, it does work for me really well. Making and receiving calls, accessing the phonebook, can all be done via the Radio Stalk and the info comes up on the radio screen. Full control of the music streaming with track information on the screen works every time too.

One other really nifty thing it does when bluetoothed to a car... If someone sends you a text, it "phones" the car and reads it out to you! Caught me by surprise a little. Couldn't understand why the car has started talking to me!

 

[Caz-133cup]

Iv been looking around at a new phone and I love iPhones and had them since they came out however cannot justify paying so much for the 5. I love my nexus 7 tablet James got me so thought I'd look at the nexus 4, first off it was hard finding anyone that stocked it! But once I looked I thought its pretty good plus James of course did his research and this looked like a good buy. Will take me some getting used to but i love it.
I'm not an s3 person so that was out but the lumia 920 was the next one I was looking at. Sleek and has some good features.