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Loving the look of this - seems to be everything I love about my 920 but just a bit better in almost every way:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7eMY45Fw0M
Specs:
Primary camera sensor size: 20MP PureView
Display size: 5''
Display resolution: Full HD (1920 x 1080)
Processor name: Qualcomm Snapdragon™ 800
Maximum talk time (3G): 15.5h
Battery capacity: 2420mAh
Wireless charging: Built-in (Qi standard)
[Edited on 02-04-2014 by evilrob]
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Good to see Microsoft back-tracking even further and bringing back the start menu. 3rd time lucky they might actually get what they should have done in the first place
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still a windows phone thou
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Balling
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Looks nice. A bit... recognisable...  But very nice.
Huge bulging back is a shame, but then it just wouldn't be a Lumia without being a brick. 
Unclear yet if I get to keep my phone when I leave work end of June, if not I'll yet again have to consider the daunting possibility of trying my luck with a phone with no half eaten fruits on it.
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Good to see Microsoft back-tracking even further and bringing back the start menu. 3rd time lucky they might actually get what they should have done in the first place
Am I missing something or has this got nothing to do with the phone?
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Good to see Microsoft back-tracking even further and bringing back the start menu. 3rd time lucky they might actually get what they should have done in the first place
Am I missing something or has this got nothing to do with the phone?
Nothing to do with the phone but but dropped in during the same Nokia/Windows event
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still a windows phone thou
You say that like it's a bad thing.
I've been using a Windows Phone for about six months now to see if it's as shit as everyone makes out; and it isn't. At all.
I would sum up Windows Phone as "Surprisingly not shit" - in fact they should use that as their slogan:
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Huge bulging back is a shame, but then it just wouldn't be a Lumia without being a brick.
It's hardly a porker, is it - looks to be roughly the same thickness as an iPhone 4 (which was my favourite of all the iPhones).
I guess it needs to have some depth to it to house the 20MP camera sensor and the wireless charging gubbins.
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Still love mine 
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Balling
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It's hardly a porker, is it
Largest high end 5" smartphone, isn't it? SONY, LG and Samsung all make 5" phones that are more than 1 mm thinner. iPhone 5(c/s) is more than 2 mm thinner.
Comparison to the 4 doesn't makes any sense, tbh. Yes iPhone 4 was nearly as thick, but then vastly smaller overall.
Fit a 3.5" or even 4" display to the Nokia and the thickness would be okay. Actually, with a 4" display it'd be a very, very interesting phone.
Then again, tbh the HTC One gets away with being a fatty due to the body design, so maybe this will likewise seem smaller in your hands.
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It's hardly a porker, is it
Largest high end 5" smartphone, isn't it? SONY, LG and Samsung all make 5" phones that are more than 1 mm thinner. iPhone 5(c/s) is more than 2 mm thinner.
Comparison to the 4 doesn't makes any sense, tbh. Yes iPhone 4 was nearly as thick, but then vastly smaller overall.
The point I was making was that I like a phone that's around 10mm thick - that seems to work best for my hands. I didn't like how thin the iPhone 5 was.
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Or to put it another way - phones are generally thin and light enough these days; this whole business of shaving off an extra 1-2mm with each revision is getting silly.
Turning your nose up at any given handset because it's 1mm thicker than some other handset is ridiculous.
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Turning your nose up at any given handset because it's 1mm thicker than some other handset is ridiculous.
I wouldn't say that's what I'm doing, but fair enough.
That said, with phones evolving as little as they are, yet still keeping their absurd price tags, I absolutely don't think it's ridiculous to expect every detail to be as close to perfect as possible. Including the dimensions.
If you prefer a thicker phone, you always have the luxury of adding bulk through a case. I personally want a phone that's as small as humanly possible while still usable [zoolander_phone.jpg], and I definitely think 2 and even 1 mm matters - especially given the current trend of growing display sizes.
[Edited on 03-04-2014 by Balling]
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But enough about that.
Love the 20 MP camera. With that I'd just go ahead and leave my camera at home, when travelling.
How do these things fare in low light conditions?
Edit: Quite impressively it turns out.
[Edited on 03-04-2014 by Balling]
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Turning your nose up at any given handset because it's 1mm thicker than some other handset is ridiculous.
I wouldn't say that's what I'm doing
Neither would I - I'm just annoyed at the prevalence of this mentality that if a new phone isn't thinner than the last or the nearest competitor, it's automatically shit.
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[zoolander_phone.jpg]
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I was in a three store the other day, and saw a nokia "phone" with a 6" screen. Twas huge. Like a small tablet!!!
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I was in a three store the other day, and saw a nokia "phone" with a 6" screen. Twas huge. Like a small tablet!!!
That would be the 1520 - it's one of these new-fangled 'phablet' things the phone industry think people want. They're all doing them - Samsung Galaxy Note, Sony Xperia Z Ultra, HTC One Max to name a few... I think they're silly. Appealing only to Dom Joly.
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Turning your nose up at any given handset because it's 1mm thicker than some other handset is ridiculous.
Apple fans are going to shit bricks if the current rumours of a 5.5" iPhone are true
Although this 930 does look pretty epic even if it is a little chunky
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5.5" iPhone
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Turning your nose up at any given handset because it's 1mm thicker than some other handset is ridiculous.
Apple fans are going to shit bricks if the current rumours of a 5.5" iPhone are true
Although this 930 does look pretty epic even if it is a little chunky
I'll happily shit a brick if Apple release a 5.5in phone.
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still a windows phone thou
You say that like it's a bad thing.
I've been using a Windows Phone for about six months now to see if it's as shit as everyone makes out; and it isn't. At all.
Classic windows phone user denial
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still a windows phone thou
You say that like it's a bad thing.
I've been using a Windows Phone for about six months now to see if it's as shit as everyone makes out; and it isn't. At all.
Classic windows phone user denial
I'd have thought the same about someone saying positive things about Windows Phone if I hadn't actually gone out and bought one to see for myself. It really doesn't deserve the derision it receives.
It's not like I don't have any frame of reference - I've had all the iPhones since 3GS through 5, Android phones since the original T-Mobile G1 (the one with the comedy chin) through to Samsung Galaxy S III. Windows Phone is fine - good, even. I think the 920 might be my second favourite phone ever (first place goes to the classic 8210 I had circa 1999, which still works today!)
Is Windows Phone 8 the best all-round mobile operating system there is? Probably not, all things considered. But it is a joy to use - it's fast and responsive, smooth, consistent and it does the job.
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Does the screen on the 8210 still work?
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evilrob
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Does the screen on the 8210 still work?
Yep. I seem to remember having to replace something on it at one point - a small white strip of some sort. Or that might have been on the 8850. Either way - it still works.
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Shame there's no Surface Phone though! Maybe next year when the Nokia deal is all properly done and dusted.
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Shame there's no Surface Phone though! Maybe next year when the Nokia deal is all properly done and dusted.
That would be cool - if they made something that looked like a shrunk-in-the-wash Surface, I'd buy it:
I reckon the 930 will tide me over til then though.
[Edited on 04-04-2014 by evilrob]
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