Nokia: Camera, Wireless Charging Key to Lumia 920 Success
Nokia betting big with Windows-powered smartphone.
Nokia has explained the qualities which it's hoping to spearhead the success of the Lumia 920 such as its camera quality and wireless charging component.
Nokia's marketing head Chris Weber said during Windows Phone 8 launch in San Francisco: "In the Lumia 920 there are five distinct areas [of differentiation]: Imaging, wireless charging, screen, location and music. These are the first phones where we've been able to add the Nokia secret sauce."
In order to put the aforementioned points into fruition, Nokia will be distributing gadgets to mobile phone stores, which will predominately be based on the Lumia 920's camera capabilities. A cardboard box, for example, will have a dim light inside and will allow consumers to take low-light photos and compare them.
The smartphone also features exclusive camera apps, otherwise known as "lenses" such as Cinemagraph; the app combines still images and video to make pictures resemble an animated GIF.
Looking towards the future, Weber didn't rule out utilizing the 41-megapixel camera technology in Nokia's 808 PureView within a future Windows Phone. "Our ambitions are to bring more and more of that technology to the Windows Phone platform.
"In one of the countries that was pre-selling the Lumia, over 70 per cent of the people who pre-ordered, ordered wireless charging. We're working with partners to bring unique bundles around wireless charging."
He referred to Nokia's mapping and location-based apps as another strong selling point for the Lumia 920. "That will be a towering strength of ours, not only the points of interest and data, but the number of countries and languages we're in."
"A lot of the feedback we've gotten ... shows the trend of how much people are moving to soft keyboards, and the biggest carriers in the US all tell us that the Windows Phone keyboard is by far the best keyboard out there," he added. "That's where we need to focus; we have to make people aware of how good the soft keyboard is in Windows."

- Dicks.
Yes.. we get it.. Zak posts mostly Apple "news"..
Just get over it already.. Find something new and useful/helpful to say please..
Don't proudly advertise your single minded existence by ragging on the guy even when he posts on other brands.. That makes you MUCH WORSE than the guy you are critiquing!
Imaging, wireless charging, screen, location and music.
Maybe in the USA, but most countries don't even use that bandwidth. Just saying there are a lot more people in the rest of the world.
I just want to get an unlocked version of it.
I very much agree here.
Microsoft and Nokia (and HTC for that matter) need to produce the best hardware they can. They need bleeding edge phones, need to lead in this area, not follow. I firmly believe (while not ignoring that Android is better than iOS and there are many people who refuse to buy Apple no matter how good the product is) that one of Windows phones' biggest problems in getting people to buy them is that the phones haven't stood out, they haven't been something to go "Wow!" over.
I think the Nokia 920 is a very good step in that direction, and clearly will beat out the best of other phones in at least the camera area. That being said, personally I would like more of a Note II style phone, and I think Win 8 is more of a full-featured phone OS and can take better advantage of the Note's capabilities than Android.
Haven't entirely made up my mind about getting a 920, it's possible I'll wait and see what comes on down the road, but it's one sweet phone (my friend in the cell phone business uses a Win phone and tells me it's the one to get, of all the phones, not just Windows phones).
Who carries it might make a difference, too. I prefer Verizon, and really am at a loss as to why they don't carry more than one middle-of-the-road HTC right now. Hopefully that also will change.
Thanks but no thanks.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Lumia-920-Trailer-PureView-Different-Camera,17410.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/nokia-smartphone-cellphone,18749.html
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/Nokia-Windows-Phone-Contingency-Plan-Back-Up-Plan-B,news-15751.html
and isnt it a minus? I must take the Wireless charger with me instead of just tiny power supply?
plus, how come Lumia 920 is selling for around 600$ ? while the hardware is not worth that much? Look at the Google nexus 4 and compare it to the Lumia please ?
and where is the missing SD card ? and you add it to lower lumia 820 ??!?!?
what kind of game is this ? playing with our nerves like that?
Lumia 920 should have at least 4 cores S4 cpu OR A15 CPU, Adreno 350 GPU , 2 G of Ram , and SD card slot to justify the price today ....
The Samsung Ativ s has the SD card but sadly no LTE .. no one is offering a real windows flagship phone SADLY.
Its NOT about the hardware, it IS about the user experience. If the device runs smooth on the hardware inside it, why is there any need for anything better, especially with taking into consideration that higher spec hardware eats more battery power? You can put a damn hexcore APU (assuming it existed) into a smartphone and it wouldn't make one damn difference to the fluidity of the OS on the device in these windows phone 8 devices. Thats the beauty of it.
I do agree on the SD card slot, however they do provide you with a skydrive account and its plenty big enough for most things, especially if you have access to a 4G network like I do
The reason I'd go for this phone is the differentiating factors from you're run of the mill grey slab's such as your iphone and galaxies. Best turn by turn navigation, best still and video camera combo relative to its competitors, great screen, and personally I think it looks better than anything else currently available on the market. And a big + in my opinion is the new OS. I've played with it, and moving over from apple, I must say its far superior, though there is a slight learning curve when you initially start using it.
Damn I sound like a windows phone fan! (soon to be ex iPhone user and android user)
1. The point of wireless charging is ease of use.
2. normal micro-usb chargers still work
3. there is more hw in L920 than in N4, Nokia makes money from hw(which is arguably better optimized in WP) + sw, Google makes money by selling your personal info and are selling the N4 at or below cost, it is up to you to decide which one to go for
4. most sold phones are 16GB, and according to research, most don't use microSD, Nokia compromised at 32GB, although microSD would have been nice
5. WP8 is not optimized for 4-cores yet, + pretty sure it is exclusive to LG atm, as they ramp up production, personally I'd prefer 2-core + adreno 320 for efficiency, I'd also argue that most people don't use more than 1GB of RAM ( especially on WP ), and RAM takes huge chunks of idle power.
As for the keyboards, the Windows Phone keyboard might be better than stock Android, but the 3rd party Android keyboards out there are by far the best.