Weekend Watch: Nokia Lumia 920 Ash Grey vs Nokia Lumia 820 gloss white
Here’s a short somewhat wobby video showing just the physical differences between the Nokia Lumia 920 in Ash Grey and Nokia Lumia 820 in gloss white.
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- Nokia Lumia 920: petit aperçu du gris, en vidéo | Nokia Day | October 22, 2012
Both 920 and 820 are absolutely stunning devices. Powerful internals and awesome design. Only thing that may affect their sales is WP inside them.
Can’t they use same hardware and design with multiple operating systems.
multiple os?? symbian and s40 lol
Having used and still own multiple OSes in the house (my parents has iPhone 5s and iPads, my sister has Galaxy S3 and a Sony Xperia, I have the N9 which is my second phone along with my Lumia 800 and a Galaxy Tab 7.7) I wouldn’t want anything else but WP on the Lumia. Who cares about sales except for fanboy bragging rights? The UX is the thing I care about first and the WP UX is the smoothest and most colourful personal experience out there. I blown my sister’s mind when I show her how my one year old under-specced Lumia 800 scrolls and transition smoother than her Galaxy S3 (international quad core version) and that it is much simpler to use and lasts longer on a single charge than her Xperia. My sister is mad the sales person pushed her into getting the new S3 because it is so complicated to her (she’s not tech savvy) and she can’t even figure out how to turn off the keyboard sound (hint: each IME has its own keyboard sound toggle, there is a universal switch in Android but gets over-ridden by the individual IME which is the only switch she was able to find).
The WP experience is good and it just works, I actually feel sorry for the many non-tech savvy people who gets conned into buying Androids which are WAY beyond their needs and uses. WP deserves better than it does.
Open up your eyes mate. It’s not about how you feel about your phone. May be you are in that minority group who are using Lumias. But, in real world they need sales to survive. They shouldn’t put any constraint on themselves when survival is in question.
I am not saying WP is bad. It just doesn’t fit.
Customers already rejected it and the results of last 3 quarters proved it already.
Nokia need to take some big step forward if they want to survive in smart phone business.
No it is you that needs to open your eyes, what I’m saying is that it is not that WP doesn’t fit but that normal average joes are continuously getting conned into buying equipment that doesn’t fit their needs. Also we all know that the majority of the Android OEM aren’t doing well financially either so the argument from a sales perspective doesn’t hold water either.
From my experience Android doesn’t fit the majority of the people’s needs but they get easily conned by the phone sales person into buy it, in my circle of friends I have not met a single non-techy friend that is actually happy with their Android (whereas about half of my techy friends are happy with Android, go figure), it’s all down to sale numbers and some peer pressure – either they don’t want to use iPhone because of the hipster image and/or their techie friends or sales conned them into buying Android and they end up feeding the sales spiral, but in the end the customer actually suffered because they didn’t get the tool which fits their needs. WP has a bad reputation but that is not really the fault of the OS itself but rather a) techies looking for the wrong tool thus bash it and then b) proceeds to tell their friends not to use it etc, sometimes the good things don’t get the market they deserve only due to ignorance of the market and not actually because it is not meeting the demand of the customer, and WP is squarely in this area.
I’m an honest “sales person” in my family and I would never try to convince my parents to switch because I know iOS is good for their needs, however using my sister as another example she most definitely got the wrong choice just because of the sales person giving her the wrong tool, WP would have fitted her needs perfectly. But such is how goods gets pushed not due to its own credits but because of uninformed people making uniformed choices.
Adding to my sister example: she’s non-techy, she only uses some whatsapp and check emails, she has two children and likes to take photos of my little nieces with the camera phone, and since the kids plays with the phone sometimes she would benefit from a durable phone. A cheap Lumia (or heck maybe an Asha if it was available!) would have fitted her needs perfectly (especially the camera button short cut), but again the phone sales conned her into buying a quad core S3 but for what? Only because the sales gets a big fat commission from selling a high priced phone with a contract, that’s the type of marketing working here, not really because people actually finding the Android fitting her needs!
I am a Nokia user since long time. I never used an Android or iOS device. So can’t exactly say how laggy or smooth they are. But most of my friends are using Androids. The UX in S2, S3 and One X is very smooth and the animations are cool. Never forget the live wallpaper and other tweaks.
Ask your sister to visit the Samsung service center. That specific device may have some problem for which the scrolls and transition is not much smoother.
@swain
Honestly mate. I always find myself disagreeing with 97% of everything you post.
It’s up to you mate. You have all the rights to agree on what you feel to agree.
At the beginning I too wished them to succeed with WP though I was disappointed with the dumping of Symbian.
But see, the strategy is not working and the continuous downfall of sales is the proof for that.
In past, people have disagreed to my comments. They predicted a figure of 6m+ or 10m+ Lumias sales. The results are public now.
Today’s market is very dynamic. It just won’t work if you put all the eggs in one basket.
Agreed!
The future of Windows Phone lies with the network salespeople IMO. Once they believe in it, and actually use it, it’ll take off. If they don’t, it’ll be finished, along with Nokia I fear.
I stopped by my att store two days ago, and the sales guy there said that he is changing his iphone 4s to lumia 920 because he is bored.
Smoothest? Windows Phone on Lumia 900 still has a little lag opening apps and from what I’ve seen the Lumia 920 still takes sometime to load an app. The smoothest and fastest phone out there is the Samsung Galaxy S III especially on Jellybean. Everything opens and loads in an instant. The user experience on Android now outclasses that of iOS and is miles better than Windows Phone.
The UX on android actually sucks compared to iOS and WP
u kiidding right??????? android was never smooth and will never be doesnt matter if they use project butter or project cream
Looks good, but only looks. Windows into this is old-fashion junk, like 120 years grandma in bikini. but it will be very nice of you to invite her beer and dancing. But you know, if next day you would weak up with…. no, no, no – better even not to think…. Also I wouln’t like my friends to see me with grangrandma system from past ages.
what?
Nice try, Annethe and your many usernames for trolling.
erm, i believed you said you would ban him and his comments if he continued to visit. A few final warning already i think no?
Already done. But keeps coming back.
weak up? LOL!
Sad and lame trolling. I am disappointed
“A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.”
Winston Churchill
amusing that churchill would say that
They do both look great and do both pack current SoCs with Nokia build quality. But the crazy granny-bagger previously posting has a point: the only thing that could let these devices down is WP8. Here’s to hoping it is all we hope it will be and saves our beloved Nokia from becoming a bygone legend and puts her back on top!
Granny?. WP8 is a brand new OS from the ground up.
Android is based on Unix from 1960 for example.
What about Meego then..!!!
Meego is nice and all. Still actually using my N9 as primary. But WP will need to do well for fans like us to ever have a shot of Nokia revisiting this OS/UX somewhere down the line. Wishing it didn’t have to but all bets are hedging on WP8. Fingers crossed on Nokia tweaking the UX sometime soon though.
Well, Linux, actually. Which is based (loosely) on Minix, not UNIX.
Yea, nitpicking, I know.
And how exactly the average user knows that this phone has a brand new OS? Because the tiles now take up all of the home screen space? To the best of my knowledge he wants Apple or Android – the poor man’s Apple
i’m loving the grey more and more.
I think I’ll go for the red one.
I’m torn between the red and the yellow. Black is soooo boring and white is getting a bit “meh” as well.
Pretty sure I’ll go for the yellow, though.
Black, boring?! Less for Nokia than all others methinks. The CBD and the curved front glass is actually begging for all black treatment. Besides the “Vader” look never goes out of style.
Anybody notice that the Windows logo is different from the current logo? Guess this phone was produced before Lumia 900 was lunched.
some of the protos are like that. =)
These phones will sell like hotcakes if they have Android OS in them. They’re nice phones but Windows Phone will be the dealbreaker to its potential buyers. Who would want to buy a Windows Phone after the overwhelming negative consumer reactions for Windows 8?
Why do you want to ruin the phones with android ?
These phones are already ruined by Windows Phone. Their beautiful design, cutting-edge hardware are wasted by the repulsive Windows software. Nobody likes Windows anymore. Even on desktop Windows is already losing popularity. Windows 8 has already been shunned by consumers. No way these phones will ever be successful with this OS.
“Windows 8 has already been shunned by consumers?”
How so?
http://www.bgr.com/2012/10/15/windows-8-criticism-manufacturer-response-overwhelmingly-negative/
Consumers?
there are actually a lot of positive comments about windows 8 on that link, some even say that iPad is a joke when compared with windows 8 tablet, and iOS a crippled OS vs a full fledged PC experience of the W8 on a tablet.
anyways guys, just opinions… Just buy whatever you like the most! Case closed!!!
i think you missed the part where the surface with w8 is selling out and a ton of people installed the w8 release preview.you also seem to live in a alternate universe where windows doesn’t have 90% marketshare.
let me guess the real alternative would be a linux based os
and bu the way if you want android i’m sure that you can but a phone from one of the 30+ device manufacturers that use it. and some of them like htc and sony actually have pretty decent designs and build quality not to mention the spec whore samsung
Let’s hope it arrives b4 X-mas and HTC’s true hd Butterfly J.
Love the gray with black ceramic buttons. Gives it a nice stealthy look to it. I hope this is exactly how the final gray one looks like minus the old Windows key.