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- Visualized: Nokia Maps Vs. the Competition
- Apple claims iPhone 5 has most advanced display, conveniently forgets the superior display in Nokia Lumia 920
- SwitchToLumia Infographic: Purple and Blue lumia 920?
- Nokia Politely Points Out Why the Lumia 920 is Better than the iPhone 5 with a Cute Graph
- Chippy on the Nokia PureViews, 808 and 920. Could 920 produce better pictures most of the time?
- Nokia Lumia 920 passes FCC (RM-820/821)
- Video: Optical Image Stabilisation demo on Nokia Lumia 920 (PureView v2)
- Video: Introducing Nokia Wireless Charging Stand
| Visualized: Nokia Maps Vs. the Competition Posted: 20 Sep 2012 08:40 AM PDT
Here’s a really nice infographic showing a comparison between Nokia maps, Apple’s new maps and Google Maps. It’s obvious that Nokia have the advantage in Most fields only losing to Google maps when it comes to traffic updates; but the one thing I really enjoyed about this infographic was that it didn’t try to spin everything in Nokia’s favor; it’s clear honest and just plain facts. Take a closer look at the countries that have Turn-by-turn voice coverage by each service below:  Top: Nokia Maps, Bottom Left: Google Maps, Bottom Right: iOS Maps Nokia maps truly are amazing, especially in the less popular countries (for me in Jordan) I still find all the little places I want and am easily able to navigate to them. Some of the locations I find aren’t even available on my brothers dedicated Garmin GPS, I’m just hoping for an offline/Mobile version of their full 3D maps to compete with Apple’s new Flyover (which for some reason alot of people hate, honestly I find it pretty cool). Edit: Apparently Apple maps has some serious navigation and listing issues: Gizmodo
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| Posted: 20 Sep 2012 07:25 AM PDT
An interesting article over at geek.com (obtained from wpcentral forums). There’s a screenshot of the new iPhone saying it’s the world’s most advanced display. It’s normally fine when Apple says ‘Our’ in front of it, as that’s enough to fool some people that it encompasses all, but not enough to be misleading. This one however clearly indicates it’s talking about displays from other manufacturers.
What makes the Lumia’s screen better than the iPhone 5 screen?
Despite all of that, Apple says their screen is more advanced. Geek.com explains that is because Apple display focused on ‘ color saturation and the integrated touch’. Geek.com does not believe that is enough to make such claims of having the most advanced display.
Source: wpcentral Via: geek.com Cheers Michael for the tip!
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| SwitchToLumia Infographic: Purple and Blue lumia 920? Posted: 20 Sep 2012 07:07 AM PDT
Since I’ve taken much to long to write this, there’s already a post by Ali so let’s focus instead on the box at the bottom corner. SirajSoft tweeted this image which he came across on the Nokia UK facebook page. It’s an interesting infographic that shows the differences between the Nokia Lumia 920 and the Apple iPhone 5. Their message is “Good things come to those who wait”. According to our poll, around 72% of MNB voters so far are definitely going to be picking a Nokia Lumia 920 (an additional 6.47% will be getting a different Nokia, whilst 6.76 don’t even plan on buying any phone any time soon). That super sensitive touch thing, although it might have seemed obvious but I didn’t realise you could use pens too. That pretty much means any sort of contact, right? That’s cool as capacitive pens suck somewhat. It would be also great to see this type of thing on a tablet. Also, check out this box.
The message says, 5 colours, Black, white, grey, red and yellow. But there are six colours, no red. Purple, blue, grey, black, white, yellow. This could just be a typo or more colours.
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| Nokia Politely Points Out Why the Lumia 920 is Better than the iPhone 5 with a Cute Graph Posted: 20 Sep 2012 06:58 AM PDT
Nokia UK just posted the graph above on FB along with the caption “Good things come to those who wait”, hinting for people to hold off the iPhone 5 and “wait” for the super amazing Lumia 920 (if only we knew when it was coming). Notice that this graph doesn’t take any cheap shots at the iPhone 5, nor is it calling it an inferior device, in fact it almost shows a sort of “respect” to their competitors; a tone that is almost definitely lost on Samsung and HTC. My only complaint about the chart is the inclusion of the “JBL PlayUp & Monsters” under accessories; unless they’re being offered as a bundle with the phone they DO NOT belong there, since Apple rules the kingdom of 3rd party accessories. All in all I like that Nokia’s social marketing is addressing the fact that other devices exist out there, and are proving why their devices are better, rather than pretending that they’re the only ones who make phones.
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| Chippy on the Nokia PureViews, 808 and 920. Could 920 produce better pictures most of the time? Posted: 20 Sep 2012 06:34 AM PDT
Yesterday we looked at a video comparing very quickly the Nokia PureViews, 808 and 920 recorded by Steve ‘Chippy’ Paine (CarryPad, Ultrabooknews, UMPCPortal). You may have seen a multitude of his videos, many of them recorded on the Nokia camera kings, such as the N82 and N8. No stranger to Symbian, he’s currently in possession of the Nokia 808 PureView (which he’s really impressed with in terms of camera quality). He found that post from yesterday and left a comment to explain a little bit more on his findings. As commented by a few readers, Chippy’s gonna try and get Nokia to play back the part of the video where they shake the phone purposely (though it does smooth out the video, people want to see the result). Chippy makes an interesting remark that he feels that the 920 could actually produce better pictures most of the time for most people (aka, average joes). We’ll have to wait and see if that’s the case in real life usage. Now folks, it doesn’t necessarily indicate ultimate quality or potential, it’s just that the 920 seems geared towards the masses, thus would possibly have a more versatile auto that does not really require much tweaking. I’m guessing that for those in the know, they can always have the option of pushing the 808 to it’s limits which could/would then outperform a 920. Either way it sounds good that the 920 would ever come anywhere near the 808 let alone produce better images in situations other than low light without flash. Chippy seems to favour the 920′s solution for PureView rather than oversampling. Do you agree? Perhaps in 2013 we’ll see both in effect and you wouldn’t need to choose one side or the other.
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| Nokia Lumia 920 passes FCC (RM-820/821) Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:29 AM PDT
The Nokia Lumia 920 has passed FCC, confusingly noted as RM-820 (RM-821 in image above). From September 10th, there’s a 90 day confidentiality treatment for RM-821 on the following documents:
Source: FCC Via: Engadget Cheers Jill for the tip!
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| Video: Optical Image Stabilisation demo on Nokia Lumia 920 (PureView v2) Posted: 20 Sep 2012 12:00 AM PDT
This is another video reuploaded from engadget by some randomer that shows the Nokia Lumia 920 optical image stabilisation (floating lens PureView phase 2) in action. The first part of the demo is an exaggeration to show exactly the point in the that OIS kicks in. You’ll note like before the camera shake is heavily reduced to the point of being eliminated. It appears like the demo person has stopped shaking their hands but they haven’t. The second part of the demo shows a more realistic situation where a user may try to hold the phone steady with some panning. Here we’re told it’s like being on steadicam or tripod but handheld (funny he says that as actually if you look at the reflection, this is fake and he’s recording on a DSLR with a sticker to make it look like a 920 on see through steadicam /s). The third part of the demo shows a competing smartphone against the Nokia Lumia 920. Both are attached to the same rig, so it’s not like Nokia started shaking the phone on the left and put the other phone on a dolly.
BTW if you’re interested in getting smooth video like the 920, you could use hardware stabilisation accessories. Here’s a demo with the 808. It’s bulky but if you’re planning ahead to film something, this might come in handy. Seriously, smoothing out videos makes the difference between night and day how watchable something is. Actually, this type of accessory would trump what the 920 could do natively (well if you calibrate it properly) as that’s the whole point of it. This would not be something that could help you capture a spur of the moment smooth video.
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| Video: Introducing Nokia Wireless Charging Stand Posted: 19 Sep 2012 10:01 PM PDT
Doing a YouTube run, and came across this video from Nokia. It is simple and straight to the point. Shows off the colours of the charging dock (and other Wireless accessories at the end), and how simple it is to charge your Lumia with the latest innovative feature.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9JM0x9nAvs Source: Youtube
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