Nokia presents Lumia 920 with Windows Phone 8

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Nokia has a private event in New York city the Lumia 920 with Windows Phone 8 was presented. The device has support for wireless charging, and features an lcd display Nokia PureMotion HD+ called.

The Lumia 920, which in the past week all the necessary rumors went, has a 4.5″screen with a resolution of 1280×768 pixels. Resolution: starting with version 8 of Windows Phone supported; in Windows Phone 7.5 could manufacturers only screens with 800×480 pixels. The screen is a lcd with PureMotion HD+ technology from Nokia in which the refresh rate is higher than other screens, which makes scrolling better. The refresh rate is 60Hz. Nokia claims a brightness of 600 nits.

Also, the screen features an improved version of the ClearBlack technology, in which polarisation filters can be added to the visibility to increase. In addition, the user can use the touchscreen even with gloves to operate, thanks to something that Nokia Super Sensitive Touch calls. The company gave no details of how it works.

The phone has support for wireless charging, for which a strip in the back is processed. Under more Fatboy makes an accessory for the device. The device has a unibody enclosure made of polycarbonate, like the Lumia 900 and 800. The camera has a maximum resolution of 8.7 megapixels and has the PureView name, adele. Nokia has optical image stabilization added to the camera and focuses on making better photos in dark conditions. Exactly how that happens, made Nokia is not clear.

The Lumia 920 is equipped with nfc to make use of the Wallet functionality in Windows Phone for payments. It is unclear to what extent this is supported in the Netherlands. The phone runs on a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor, an MSM8960. The dual-core processor with two Krait cores is clocked at 1.5 GHz. The battery has a 2000mAh battery, more than the 1850mAh battery from the Lumia 900. The phone is 10.7 mm thick, slightly thinner than the Lumia 900. The Lumia 920 weighs 185 grams, which is the toughest high-end phone on the market; the Galaxy S III weighs, for example, around 130 grams, the iPhone comes to 140 grams.

The device runs on Windows Phone 8, the operating system that at the end of October along with Windows 8 should appear. Windows Phone 8 is the kernel of the desktop version of Windows and also share the multimedia engine with the desktop version. The agreements should lead to developers without a lot of effort apps, porting from Windows 8 to Windows Phone 8, and vice versa.

In addition to the Lumia 920 was Nokia also with the slightly cheaper Lumia 820. The Lumia 820 offers a ClearBlack amoled display with a resolution of 800×480 pixels and a diagonal of 4.3″. The PureView camera is missing on the cheaper Lumia. He is 160 grams is also slightly lighter. Nokia still has no price or release date announced, but the release is expected around the end of October.