28 November 2012

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Video: Das Nokia Lumia 820: Der Lumia Labortest

Posted: 27 Nov 2012 03:02 AM PST

 

Quick heads up on this amusing video showing how phones are tested (and fail). The Nokia Lumia is not being tested but is dropped and walked on.

(Can’t hear the music – in a meeting break)

Cheers Ben for the tip

MNB RG: Nokia Lumia 920 dark box comparison with Lumia 900/808 PureView

Posted: 27 Nov 2012 12:36 AM PST

Janne’s back to share an interesting camera comparison set up by Nokia in a sales booth at a Helsinki department store. It’s already been reported that the Nokia Lumia 920 is the highest demanded for any Nokia in 10 years for DNA Finland, quite a feat given the huge popularity of Nokia in the early part of those 10 years. We need Nokia to SHOW why the Nokia Lumia 920 is awesome, and it’s things like this that do that. Not their gut wrenchingly terrible ads that have been made by an art student to confuse you.

The booth has two dark boxes where you can compare your phone and Lumia 920 low-light photography capabilities. The attached pictures were taken in 8 MP 4:3 auto modes, handheld and without flash with Lumia 900, 808 PureView and Lumia 920, and then scaled to 1024 width.

The dark box with the Christmas tree was lighted a little more from an outside spotlight, so those pictures were better in all the phones because there was more ambient light. The other box with the globe was very dark, pretty much the only one showing anything on its mobile screen was the Lumia 920.

The last two JPGs (the ones that say brightness +100% in the corner) contain the same pictures with +100% brightness to show what kind of detail or noise there was in the pictures.

Cheers Janne for the tip!

MS Working on WP Apollo+ for Q1 2013

Posted: 27 Nov 2012 12:26 AM PST

A few sources are discussing the possibility of an update to WP8 (Apollo) to Apollo+, two notable ones below:

http://www.wpcentral.com/microsoft-set-roll-out-windows-phone-8-update-apollo-q1-2013

http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/26/3692620/microsoft-apollo-plus-windows-phone-update

TheVerge says there are various fixes, including WiFi and audio and implement new things for WP such as VPN support. It was noted that, (as important as it was to get it right out of the bat) Microsoft ran out of time (Well done MS) on a number of features (such as a rumoured central notification other than homescreen tiles/lockscreen). On the upside, there’s plenty to like about WP8 and it’s super stable for me. I’d rather than than the possibility of a notification centre and something buggy (but then again, who says we shouldn’t have had both?

It’s noted that Apollo+ isn’t going to be a big update like WP7 to WP7.5 perhaps but more of an update to push fixes and features (like the mini updates WP7.5 received to get features such as WiFi tethering).

Apollo+ will also test OTA updates (previously not possible)

 

 
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