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- LeakyLeak: Nokia Lumia 928 renders – with Xenon Flash, coming to Verizon.
- The Curious Case of the Lumia 920′s Camera
- Rumours: Nokia EOS 41MP; Nokia Catwalk specs, OctaOLED, 8.4mm slim, 2000mAh, f2.0 with OIS, May 15th
- Nokia Lumia 520 only £99 at Carphone Warehouse (possibly unlocked too)
- Oops: Samsung Galaxy S3 Running Nokia Belle
- Lumia 720 Vs. 920 low Light Comparison, Insane Results from the 720!
- Nokia Lumia 520 available in India, with free 16GB microSD card.
- NSN stays put at least for a few months; Nokia Shanghai store closes its doors
- Video: Dean Pattrick demoes Nokia Music for Windows 8
- Interesting WP keyboard predictive text suggestions.
| LeakyLeak: Nokia Lumia 928 renders – with Xenon Flash, coming to Verizon. Posted: 05 Apr 2013 07:58 PM PDT
A render of the much rumored handsets has just been leaked by @evleaks - here’s the Nokia Lumia 928 renders.
Contrary to what most rumors have been saying about Verizon’s handset it does NOT have an aluminum/metal casing (which I know some of you were hoping for); however it does make up for it with the a Xenon flash. The first Lumia in fact to carry such a flash, which should come to a relief to many of you out there; especially since some have gone as far as stating that a Pureview without Xenon flash, is not worthy of the Pureview title at all. What do you reckon? Source: evleaks Cheers Glenn for the tip! |
| The Curious Case of the Lumia 920′s Camera Posted: 05 Apr 2013 02:07 PM PDT
The other day there was a pretty awesome sunset in front of my house, so I decided to take a couple pictures with my 920, unfortunately the 920 kept over compensating with its low light powers, to a degree where a natural looking picture wasn’t possible. Below is a screenshot of what I saw through the viewfinder, and it was pretty darn awesome (minus the blurriness)! – of course the 920′s viewfinder is notorious for darkening the scene in front of it, but it was close to what you see below.
Unfortunately the 920′s night mode automatically kicked in pumping up the colors, giving an admittedly nice picture, but not the one I wanted (nor a true resemblance of what I saw)- although I do truly love that lens flare effect. Toying with the mode settings got me no-where, in fact it seems that putting the 920 in “Backlit” mode pushes the low light compensation into overdrive, producing even brighter pictures than those in “night mode” (unfortunately I idiotically deleted the super bright picture). The only setting that I found actually didn’t compensate for the low light was “sport” which obviously uses a faster shutter speed to get that moment of action, and the difference between the two modes is quite obvious as you can see below
However it is worth noting that even though the sport mode picture is obviously not a great low light picture, it is nice to see it reproducing black as “black” rather than the grey/blue colors that the lumia 900 and 800 used to push out as a pitiful excuse of darkness. In normal everyday well lit conditions the Lumia 920 also seems to switch between taking amazing pictures, and taking others that get deleted instantly; and it’s confusing. But of course when it does get it right (I’d say about 75% of the time) the results do tend to be fantastic. I do wish it had a built in HDR mode though, as in some places it really would make pictures look even more amazing (the picture below looks awesome when viewed on the 920′s screen when it’s in the high visibility/pastel colors mode).
So am I doing something wrong with my 920? or does anyone else have similar issues (namely the fact where low light mode fails to kick in occasionally?) chime in or leave your shooting tips down below …
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| Rumours: Nokia EOS 41MP; Nokia Catwalk specs, OctaOLED, 8.4mm slim, 2000mAh, f2.0 with OIS, May 15th Posted: 05 Apr 2013 12:05 PM PDT
Corroborating previous rumours, the Nokia Lumia ‘Catwalk’ is rumoured for a May 15th Launch.
There’s another rumour inserted in at the end. A different phone with 41mpx. I suspect we’ll hear more of other exciting Lumias soon. Cheers Muerte for the tip! |
| Nokia Lumia 520 only £99 at Carphone Warehouse (possibly unlocked too) Posted: 05 Apr 2013 11:54 AM PDT
There is an additional £10 top up but that’s credit for you to use as you wish on calls/text/data. BTW, based on all my purchases at CPW, their phones tend to be unlocked. Most pay and go phones from other retailers are locked to that network. All CPW phones I’ve ever bought have luckily been unlocked Worth checking with them prior to purchase though. Source: AAWP Cheers Viipottaja for the tip!
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| Oops: Samsung Galaxy S3 Running Nokia Belle Posted: 05 Apr 2013 10:59 AM PDT
It’s always funny when websites have no idea what they’re doing and try to do some fancy Photoshop and screen rendering effect; well here’s some sort of bank slapping Symbian on a galaxy S3. I wonder how it would perform on those hardware specs?
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| Lumia 720 Vs. 920 low Light Comparison, Insane Results from the 720! Posted: 05 Apr 2013 09:55 AM PDT
Quick! 2 seconds! Which picture from the two above was taken by the 720, and which by the 920? Wrong! Crazy as it is but that pretty looking, well colored one on top was taken by the 720, while the over exposed one on the bottom is the result of its big brother the 920. That’s thanks to the Lumia 720′s impressive f/1.9 aperture which lets in a crazy amount of light, even in the darkest of conditions. Just look at the Lumia 720 vs the HTC one in the video below:
Check out the full size image in at the source link below: |
| Nokia Lumia 520 available in India, with free 16GB microSD card. Posted: 05 Apr 2013 08:42 AM PDT
A couple of retail outlets shows availability for the Nokia Lumi 520 WP8 Smartphone in India. Over at Saholic, they’ve got all the colours, free delivery in 5 days (with payment to you if they’re late) as well as a 16GB microSD card. This is for 10,499 INR.
It’s also available here (though I think without the free card?)
I took a look at Flipkart, it’s still on ‘preorder’. Cheers rehman ali for the tip! |
| NSN stays put at least for a few months; Nokia Shanghai store closes its doors Posted: 05 Apr 2013 08:38 AM PDT
A couple of stories from Times of India, first up, NSN is staying put as an stake sale won’t be happening at least for a few months. Next up, the Nokia Flagship store in Shaghai is closing its doors in favour of pushing Nokia Lumia handsets through carriers and third party retailers. Cheers Alvester for the tip! |
| Video: Dean Pattrick demoes Nokia Music for Windows 8 Posted: 05 Apr 2013 06:45 AM PDT
I haven’t used W8 or W8 for tablets yet but I’m really digging these UIs.
Nokia also put an official demo on their channel, and it’s demoed by Deano aka Dean Pattrick Nokia’s Entertainment Evangelist.
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| Interesting WP keyboard predictive text suggestions. Posted: 05 Apr 2013 06:28 AM PDT
One of the things I really enjoyed when from from S^3 to WP was the virtual keyboard. Despite the weird layout in landscape (not taking up the whole width) it’s amazing to use. I love the letter accuracy, the keyboard sounds that are separate for different types of keys, and the way the keyboard is often contextual, intuitively changing if you’re writing in an email address box (including @) and knowing to switch back from numbers/symbols to letters when appropriate. The best thing however is the predictive text, erasing the rare mistakes. I remember getting so frustrated typing on that darned keyboard on my N8. The larger 4″ screen in my Omnia 7 helped but even the 800′s 3.7″ was super speedy . Something I wasn’t aware of was how WP can sometimes suggest words based off other words. As shown by some redditors, typing ‘blah’ would suggest you type ‘blah’ to complete blah blah blah etc. Typing Arnold would suggest Schwarzenegger (Chome btw is trying to correct this as Slazenger), type Scarlett, and it would suggest Johansen. Neat.
What other famous names or interesting autocorrect suggestions have you seen from the WP keyboard?
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