Also, I'm really, genuinely curious as to what makes you tick. Marketing aside, this screen is gorgeous. It's a 4. Really, the only knock I can deliver against it is that it does dim a bit when you're looking at it at sharp angles.
Nokia stirred up a mini-controversy back in September when it announced the Lumia would come with the same PureView branding as the Symbian handset but without the corresponding megapixel sensor. The common thread between the PureView and the cameras is excellent image quality for those who know how to handle a high-end camera.
There are two major categories in which the Lumia excels: low-light performance and image stabilization. Both rely on what Nokia calls "floating lens technology. By reducing camera shake in this fashion, Nokia can afford to keep the shutter open for longer, absorb more light, and deliver much brighter pictures.
Video recording is also a big beneficiary of the new floating lens, making for much steadier pans and allowing you to move around without destroying the quality of your video. Taking three shots of the same scene can sometimes produce as many as three different color temperatures: a beige coffee table appeared rosy in one image, a greenish yellow in the next, and the perfect pale taupe in the third.
This same issue is apparent during video capture as well, with the camera sometimes tinting the entire scene into a new palette as it determines a new color balance. Nokia is also offering some software as exclusives to the Lumia line. The "Lenses" show up as options in the camera app, allowing you to launch custom camera apps directly and have their photos saved in the Photos Hub. It produces good results so long as you hold the camera steady.
The difference, unfortunately, is that Nokia hasn't built any way to actually share the animations, a completely perplexing foible in an otherwise neat feature.
The biggest and most important change to Windows Phone 8 over previous versions is one users don't see directly: internal software plumbing shared with Windows 8. Microsoft likes to say that it has managed to change the engine on a car speeding down the freeway without slowing down, and the metaphor is an apt one.
It's remarkable that an OS can have its internals so radically changed and yet still feel the same on the outside. The Lumia , along with the rest of the latest batch of Windows Phone 8 devices, benefits from that updated core primarily because it can now run on a modern processor, Qualcomm's dual-core Snapdragon S4 clocked at 1. It's actually a little difficult to gauge just how much of an effect that speedy processor has, for a couple of reasons.
The first is that Windows Phone has always been built with responsiveness in mind, so improvements in animations and scrolling are subtle. The second is that Windows Phone 8 as an OS seems to be faster and more stable overall. Microsoft has definitely made some performance tweaks, improving scrolling and responsiveness throughout the OS. I benchmarked the browser's javascript ranking with Sunspider and got ridiculously good results — around ms, which puts it in the same class as the iPhone 5 in terms of browser performance.
I should point out that HTC's Windows Phone 8X also achieved similar marks — no surprise since it uses the same processor. Overall, I never felt like the Lumia was slowed down because of its processor. Windows Phone 8 as a whole is a curious mix of incredible speed and maddening delays. Apps still take longer to boot from a cold start than they should, but once they're open every swipe and tap engenders an instantaneous response.
To go back to Microsoft's metaphor, it may have changed the engine but that has kept the company from devoting resources to overhauling the transmission. The good news is that there's a real feeling that the base here is much better than it was before and that there shouldn't be anything to hold the company back from improving the OS' imperfections going forward.
I have no complaints whatsoever about battery life. It has a 2,mAh battery, mAh more than the 8X, and that relatively small bump makes a big difference in terms of my peace of mind. The speaker on the Lumia is loud but obviously doesn't exhibit much bass, and strangely it can get much louder when playing music than it can on speakerphone.
Call quality was uniformly good, but I've had intermittent issues with reception, especially on LTE. Still, I found myself toggling Airplane mode to kick-start the radio a few times and it's something to keep an eye out for when retail units start shipping.
We've already fully-reviewed Windows Phone 8 , but using a Nokia Lumia phone can be a very different experience from the base OS. Nokia is aggressively adding its own software to the platform and just as aggressively courting third party developers for exclusives. In terms of third party apps, Nokia has a section of the store with entries like Groupon, Mirror's Edge yes, it's old, but it's so good , ESPN, and a few others.
But it's the first-party Nokia titles that really shine. Especially with the and its 4-inch screen, I had to remember to keep my fingers away from the viewfinder because the lens isn't set in as far from the edge.
But given how many people tell me they find the heavy and bulky, these smaller models should be popular. The looks and feels like a slimmed down , with a 4. The is a fraction thicker, but has a smaller chassis with different styling. The brightly coloured back red, blue, yellow or white curves away from the glass front steeply which makes it feel even smaller — although the edges are still comfortably rounded in your hand. All the controls are in the same place: volume, power and camera buttons on the right, micro USB at the bottom and headphone socket at the top and of course the three Windows Phone buttons on the front.
The smooth curves on the make the SIM and micro-SD slot hard to spot you need the opening tool in the package to get in there. The cover isn't removable, but you can add on a wireless charging cover to charge the on the Lumia charging plate — or any other Qi standard wireless charger. The has the same solid, responsive buttons as the ; easy to find with your fingers and you can tell when you've pressed them.
The buttons on the feel rather clicky by comparison and not nearly as pleasant to use. You'll probably want to add a card to up the built in 8GB of storage on both phones; you get 32GB on the Lumia , but there's no memory slot if you do run out. The dual core 1GHz processors in the and would be disappointing in an Android phone; the beauty of Windows Phone is that the extensive GPU hardware acceleration keeps the interface fast and fluid even on lower spec and older chipsets.
Browsing the web, playing games, typing documents; it's all about as fast as on any other Windows phone. On the , we did find apps took about a second longer to load than on the and some apps were slower to resume when we switched back to them.
Complex processing is marginally slower. It took 22 seconds to capture and process a three-shot HDR image in HDR Photo Cam on the Lumia and 24 seconds on the , which means another two seconds until you can take another shot.
DR Photo Cam isn't available for the , but the Lazy Lens effects app is; calculating an HD effect in that took three seconds on the Lumia and five seconds on both the and Battery life is a solid day of moderate-to-frequent use; stream music, use internet sharing or watch non-stop videos and you might need to charge before the evening, but you can do a lot of browsing, emailing, snapping photos, playing games, staying in touch on Facebook and Twitter, and even navigating in Here Maps before you see the battery saver logo.
Both the and have LCD screens that recognise touch gestures when you're wearing gloves which is, if you'll pardon the pun, a nice touch. The screen quality is good too; it has reasonably vibrant and accurate colours and contrast and while the has a clearer screen with richer colours, neither the nor makes you feel like you're looking at a cheap phone screen. The one thing I did notice was how much more visible fingerprints are on the screens of the and than on the The has a front-facing camera, which the sacrifices to keep the cost down.
Opinions are strongly divided on this; some people make video calls all the time, others never use it at all. The has no flash; it doesn't have the 's fantastic low-light performance, either. The does almost as well as the in low light, getting colours almost as accurate; you'll certainly get a night shot you can use on the and On the , probably not. For photography in reasonable lighting outdoors, we took all three phones out and about in Sequoia National Park in California, on both sunny and cloud days, and around Mountain View on an extremely sunny day.
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