The Official Nokia Lumia 920 Thread

edgedemon · 30 Jun 2013 at 19:01

******** Fully star swear words :mad:

Phone dropped today, to be fair, from about 5ft up, landed face down, one very smashed screen.
Usable just, but its a month earlier than I wanted to for swapping phones, Im out of contract, so could get a new phone, but I wanted to wait for the 1020 or whatever they are calling the EOS.
Covered for theft via the bank, but not accidental damage as most places won't insure me as it is a German IEMI, eg protect my bubble insist on a UK one

Egon · 30 Jun 2013 at 19:32

edgedemon said:
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Phone dropped today, to be fair, from about 5ft up, landed face down, one very smashed screen.
Usable just, but its a month earlier than I wanted to for swapping phones, Im out of contract, so could get a new phone, but I wanted to wait for the 1020 or whatever they are calling the EOS.
Covered for theft via the bank, but not accidental damage as most places won't insure me as it is a German IEMI, eg protect my bubble insist on a UK one

How much is a repair job on a 920?

For what it's worth, I have a friend who recently had their screen replaced for £60. But that was on a 710, smaller screen, older phone :/

Glaucus · 30 Jun 2013 at 19:33

Ouch,
Get it repaired or get a 520 till 11 of July and see what is announced, then go from there.

Self repair seems to be £60-110

edgedemon · 30 Jun 2013 at 19:39

Glaucus said:
Ouch,
Get it repaired or get a 520 till 11 of July and see what is announced, then go from there.

Self repair seems to be £60-110

Found somewhere that will do it in 24hrs and send it back to you for 69 quid, so will give them a try

Brenn47 · 30 Jun 2013 at 23:57

That's damn good to know! Cheers

godinman · 1 Jul 2013 at 11:37

Where quotes that price? Might get mine replaced in a year when the screen is scratched to buggery!

Also, voxer is out at last!

edgedemon · 2 Jul 2013 at 05:23

godinman said:
Where quotes that price? Might get mine replaced in a year when the screen is scratched to buggery!

Also, voxer is out at last!

search on the bay, that's where I found a place, let you know if they are any good as I sent it out yesterday

lemonade · 2 Jul 2013 at 12:58

cu3ed said:
Ill post this here jsut as more peeps view this thread.

I have to guys in work that have bought WP8 phones, one a Nokia 720 the other a Huwai model, both of them cannot seem to access their folders via windows explorer, they can jsut get as far as a blank empty window that shows no folders and they cannot drag and drop any items to them, any reason for this?

Are there phones pin protected? If so make sure they enter pin and enter the phone when connected to PC, otherwise it wil be blank.

Macro · 2 Jul 2013 at 21:42

Anyone got a 925? How are you getting on with it?

Gerard · 2 Jul 2013 at 22:55

Updated Facebook doesn't look bad, lot chunkier looking.

RSR · 4 Jul 2013 at 21:36

It seems a shame about the screen, as I was hoping for a upgrade. It looks to be in the same generation as the L920 mind.

While CNET's inside source was unable to confirm just what the Nokia Windows Phone will be branded, we're still looking at the "Lumia 1020" to replace EOS, which would make sense as this is a fairly large leap from the Lumia 920 (along with the Lumia 928 and Lumia 925). As well as the 41MP shooter, the EOS is expected to include the following:
• 41 MP camera with Xenon flash
• Nokia Pro Camera
• 32GB of internal storage
• OLED screen at 768 x 1280

edgedemon · 5 Jul 2013 at 06:40

Im not too bothered as I cant think of any moment where I have sat there thinking 'I wish I had a higher resolution screen' so 768 x 1280 is fine. 41MP camera has me drooling however as the 920 is the first phone that I have really used the camera on, so far I have taken over 1200 photo's since the end of last year. The Pro Camera app could be nice, be interesting to see what it brings to the table compared to third party solutions

Glaucus · 5 Jul 2013 at 11:38

The high res screen is a bit of a game changer, when you look at windows blue and an extra line of icons. Makes the UI so much better.
Live tiles are great, but they do take up a lot of room. The extra roll of icons will be very welcome.
Well some are, far to many show pointless or hardly any info. Haven't found a decent email live tile.
Calander and weather are the two main ones.

But then again, what will it be available on, that we don't know yet.

MS really need to hurray up and get windows phone blue out, not only is screen res, it's quad core chips and other substantial updates.

Trig · 5 Jul 2013 at 11:41

Camera isn't an issue to me, the one on the 920 is good enough..

What I want now is a phone with the same spec/performance as the 920 but with <4" screen, surely I cant be the only one here who wants a decent phone but smaller package (har har..)

edgedemon · 5 Jul 2013 at 13:36

Glaucus said:
MS really need to hurray up and get windows phone blue out, not only is screen res, it's quad core chips and other substantial updates.

I must be getting old, as Im happy to wait. Quad core for tablets, maybe, but I have never noticed any real lag on my phone, so not fussed about quad for phones yet as the OS is optimised enough for dual core to work just fine

lack of VPN support however is driving me up the wall

Glaucus · 5 Jul 2013 at 13:51

edgedemon said:
I must be getting old, as Im happy to wait. Quad core for tablets, maybe, but I have never noticed any real lag on my phone, so not fussed about quad for phones yet as the OS is optimised enough for dual core to work just fine

lack of VPN support however is driving me up the wall

It's not so much about lag, it's about sales.
Why buy a wp8 when you can get a android with far better innards for less money.
They're changing top dollar, for not top dollar insides.

And of course it's not just the CPU, it's no high res screens till its released, which also means no phablets etc.

edgedemon · 5 Jul 2013 at 13:57

Glaucus said:
It's not so much about lag, it's about sales.
Why buy a wp8 when you can get a android with far better innards for less money.
They're changing top dollar, for not top dollar insides.

Fair point, but some people switched to WP8 because of Android, my 920 is far more responsive than my s3 ever was despite better innards - for now Im sold on WP8 for at least another year as Im up for the 1020, will pre-order the moment Vodafone offer it. 12 months time, who knows, maybe KLP will tempt me back, but Im enjoying it at the moment

Glaucus · 8 Jul 2013 at 00:27

Sep 19th unveil for 920/925 real successor. 1080p screen and quad core. Which must mean we will get windows phone blue sooner than expected. Unless its unveiled a long time before we can buy it.

http://cmvlive.com/technology/gadge...quad-core-phone-being-launched-september-19th

nightmare99 · 8 Jul 2013 at 08:30

I had a weird one today, I was getting a strange notification sound which had no toast to go with it. It turns out it is some sort of NFC notification and it was when my phone was unlocked and near my wallet. Sure enough putting my Barclaycard up to the back of my phone whilst unlocked generates this weird notification sound.

Just FYI

sarge78 · 8 Jul 2013 at 19:23

edgedemon said:
my 920 is far more responsive than my s3 ever was despite better innards -

It doesn't have better innards. 28nm LP Krait >> 32nm cortex A9 (assuming you had the Exynos version)

A dual core S4 snapdragon is still perfect for a phone platform, esp with a beefier 320 GPU. Adding two extra cores doesn't increase power (each core can use almost 1W, outside short benchmarks the extra power can't really be used) but should increase efficiency with suitable coding (4*800Mhz might use less than 2*1.5GHz cores)

Hopefully EOS packs the new S800 though (28nm HPm and 330 GPU) Is it too soon for a 22nm Silvermont chip?.

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