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Nokia Details How the Lumia 925 Defies the Antenna Death Grip
Video: Lumia 720 vs. 920 Software Comparison and Boot Speed
Serious Nokia Symbian Product Placement in Fast & Furious 6
Verizon’s Lumia 928 is GSM Unlocked Out of the Box
Lumiappdates: Foursquare, App Highlights and MetroTube updated

Nokia Details How the Lumia 925 Defies the Antenna Death Grip

Posted: 24 May 2013 05:15 AM PDT

Back when the Lumia 925 launched some thought that having the antenna in the metal band around the phone would affect the reception, leading to a death grip as was the case with the iPhone 4. Thankfully as Jay demonstrated in one of the hands on videos, that is not the case with the 925

Video: Nokia Lumia 925, no iPhone 4 style death grip on external antenna (metal)

Nokia conversations have written a bit on the subject detailing why the 925 won’t be plagued with the same issues:

On the Lumia 925, the aluminium ring around the phone actually act as parts of the phone's radio antenna system. The main antenna is located in the bottom area of the phone and two more towards the top of the phone. There are then stripes that separate the antennas from the other parts of the metal ring.

The end result is that you'll get equally good radio performance out of the Lumia 925 as you would from a wholly polycarbonate phone, plus the most important benefit in the form of a stunning design.

Of course, if you deliberately use two hands to cover every edge of the phone, you'll manage to reduce the signal. But that's true of any other phone, too. You may also find it a little tricky to operate the buttons that way!

So technically you have nothing to worry about folks.

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Video: Lumia 720 vs. 920 Software Comparison and Boot Speed

Posted: 24 May 2013 04:48 AM PDT

The one and only thing keeping me from using the Lumia 720 as my absolute daily driver is the ram limitation, the 512 Mbs although capable of running WP8 as an OS smoothly becomes an issue when some apps can’t run on the device due to it. Or even worse, some apps fail to resume properly (I don’t know why that is, but as mentioned in the video Whatsapp and Viber don’t resume from background tasks too well) which is weird seeing how I never had any issues like that on the Lumia 620.

Check out the video for a boot speed comparison and overall software performance comparison:

Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_W0oUlmvNs

Serious Nokia Symbian Product Placement in Fast & Furious 6

Posted: 24 May 2013 03:54 AM PDT

So yesterday I watched Fast & Furious 6 at the movies, and at first I thought I was imagining things. I caught a glimpse of the plastic end caps of a N8; nothing too suggestive, but after that I knew something was up; without fail almost every single phone in the movie was a Nokia… running Symbian.

There were some obvious shots of the E6 (both in black and white), one where Ludacris lets his hand hover over the phone for a second or two so you can get a clear glimpse of the NOKIA logo.

Also there was a brief glimpse of either an N9 or a Lumia 800 (only the side buttons were visible). Either way it’s interesting to see these old phones in what looks like a paid placement; perhaps they filmed this a couple years ago?

Just thought it was interesting, anyone else watch the movie/spot the phones?

Verizon’s Lumia 928 is GSM Unlocked Out of the Box

Posted: 24 May 2013 02:28 AM PDT

According to multiple user reports, the newly released Lumia 928 on Verizon is shipping “sim unlocked” for GSm (4g not LTE) networks; meaning you can use it on At&t, T-mobile and other networks if you decide to travel. This is great news to everyone who is on the network (and has a 928) because it simply means that one “headache” of the carrier system in the US has been bypassed.

Got a chance to try it today..With an AT&T and T-Mobile micro sim.. After using the “Access point” app to apply the correct APN’s… it worked flawlessly (On HSPA 4G, not LTE)

Yay!

Technically this also means that you could buy a Lumia 928 from Verizon off contract and use it on your network of choice (provided you’re willing to give up LTE), or you could even import it where-ever you are outside the US. Xenon goodness for everyone!

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Lumiappdates: Foursquare, App Highlights and MetroTube updated

Posted: 24 May 2013 02:27 AM PDT