You may have seen during our live blogging, Nokia launched Lumia 920 smartphones and 820. You can see their specifications and features in our previous reports. The first impression is that this is a great hardware platform for Windows Phone 8, and it is not surprising that Steve Balmer was so excited.
Phones 820 and 920 are very (very!) Reagents, and this is due in part to Windows Phone 8 OS. The Lumia 920 is clearly the most interesting device. He looks a little big, but that is not the Galaxy Note 2 or the LG Vu. The 920 has a polycarbonate housing which is extremely durable (I've dropped a Lumia 800 once ... oops, it worked very well).
The first thing that attracts attention is the screen. It is based on LCD technology and has a resolution of 1280 × 768. However, brightness, color saturation and even black levels were impressive in the demo environment. We will do a little test side-by-side, but it is quite remarkable and almost everyone should be able to see right away. touch functionality also works well with or without contact with the skin, with a thin layer of pressure sensitive (in addition to capacitive technology). This means that the gloves are not a problem. It is also possible to use nails. One wonders how it would work with a pressure sensitive stylus.
For the moment, we have not been able to make benchmarchs system, but we can say that the performance of the Snapdragon S4 used in the Nokia 920 is certified. This is the same chip as the Galaxy S3 AT & T, then watch this and you will know what level of performance we speak. Even if it is a dual-core, one can say that these graphics capabilities can sometimes outperform quad-core chips.
Wireless charging has potential, but we know from experience that this is not a feature "vital" as we have seen with the Palm Pre. This is a great advantage, but it must first be the customer buys the phone.
PureView is really amazing. It would be quite "simple" but nobody has ever done. In a word, Nokia was able to stabilize enough for the optical system that slows the shutter speed. With that, his camera PureView can accumulate much more light than its competitors without suffering blurry pictures or shaky videos. There were live demos of both, and low light picture taking or video trenblantes the Lumia 920 puts pie iPhone 4S - it's not even funny. It is suspected that the housing bigger / thicker Nokia gives enough room to do that. The wireless charging contrinue also to the thickness.
Overall, the Nokia Lumia 920 seems to be an excellent hardware platform for Windows Phone 8. One suspects that competitors will manufacture thinner devices in response - the Lumia 920 weighs 170g (this is a personal estimate). And finally, the AFN PureView is the main asset that Nokia (especially the low light + image stabilization) as well as the excellent mapping services offline. We really need PureView tested in the real world. For the moment, Nokia demos are very impressive, but it remains to see what we learned. We can not wait to test it thoroughly. (By Hubert Nguyen)