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Leak Shows What Could Be Nokia's New Windows Phone 8 Devices
Nerval's Lobster writes "Did images of Nokia's upcoming Windows Phone 8 smartphones leak a few days early? That's the question after a Twitter feed, @evleaks, posted a set of images early on Aug. 31. The first, it claimed, was of the '4.3-inch Nokia Lumia 820,' while the second purported to show the '4.5-inch Nokia Lumia 920 with PureView.' Corporate-sanctioned leaks are a fairly regular thing in the tech world, but they tend to follow well-defined patterns: a public-relations executive — wait, sorry, 'unnamed source' — will email a journalist with an image of an upcoming device, for example, or a disgruntled former engineer will data-dump information onto their blog. Glossy publicity images originating from a new, relatively unknown Twitter feed is less common, although the Twitter feed in question has leaked other images in the past."
MS is not to be trusted? But somehow Google and Apple are paragons of virtue? Sure, it always pays to be skeptical of Microsoft, but no more so than any of the other major players in the phone wars.
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I'm on VMo, and most of their options are POS androids. They have an iPHone but they're like $500. If they had a sub$200 windows phone, I would jump at it. I'm not invested in the android ecosystem, except for angry birds.
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MS is not to be trusted? But somehow Google and Apple are paragons of virtue? Sure, it always pays to be skeptical of Microsoft, but no more so than any of the other major players in the phone wars.
They screwed the owners of their last two attempts - Windows Mobile and Windows Phone.
To compare, Apple's iPhone 3GS will get support for iOS 6 - and it was released more than 3 years ago.
So buying a Windows Phone falls into the category of "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me".
What exactly is so bad about it? With the new upcoming update, they've pretty much fixed all the complaints I've ever seen. New hardware should be on par with any other phone, there's a variety of hardware, the app ecosystem is increasing at at exponential rate. At this point, iOS is looking like the least capable of the group. iPhone still don't support external SD cards, and the hardware is limited to exactly what Apple offers. The only thing Apple still has going for it are apps, but that strength is ephemeral, especially when Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 share a same codebase; I predict many developers of Windows 8 metro apps and games will port them right over to Windows Phone 8.
I hope this isn't the real debut of the Pureview technology on Windows Phone.
With that tiny lens assembly, it seems inevitable if it is the real deal that large compromises will have been made to the image quality.
For those who don't know, the Nokia Pureview technology, currently found only on a single Symbian phone, is a breakthrough in imaging quality on smartphones/compact cameras. It is hands-down the best image quality on any smartphone, it is arguably the very best compact camera in the world, and in some circumstances has even been demonstrated to outperform mirrorless cameras like micro 4/3.
Except according to actual WP7 owners, the 7.8 solution is fine: http://www.wpcentral.com/poll-results-majority-windows-phone-users-happy-proposed-78-update
Of 6400 respondants, 54% said they're happy, 20% said they're not but staying with windows phone, 20% said they're not sure, and only 6% said they're leaving Windows Phone.
Personally, I'm happy with the decision. They're moving the platform forward yet still porting features for legacy owners. I bought a Lumia 900 about a month before this news and I'm still happy with it. It does everything I want, and will be getting more features in the future. Most non-hardware related features are being ported back to the Lumia 900. By the time I'm ready for a new phone, Windows Phone 8 will be all the better.
As for you comparison to iOS, my Girlfriend has a 3GS. To say that it runs all the latest apps and the lates OS is a bit misleading, as she's missing features, and many of the latest apps and games built for 4 or 4S hardware cause her phone to lag and many of them just crash randomly. The same can be said for my iPad 1 and apps like Infinity Blade, Netflix, and MLB AtBat 2012. This is almost the same situation Microsoft is giving to Windows Phone users, except they're being upfront by calling it WP7.8 instead of WP8.
Another reason not to bother.. "leaks" = hype
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I don't trust Microsoft and I don't trust Apple, I have a bit of trust for Google though. Google though has not acted in anticompetitive fashion they have used their patents only defensively. Google gives away the source code for their operating system so if you don't trust them you can read through the source code and compile and modify, or pay someone else to. Lets see Microsoft or Apple* do that.
*no darwin does not count because google givesaway the whole system where apple only years ago gave away pieces. Oh and when are we going to see the arm port?
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These could have been MeeGo phones, with QT and the nice UI from Nokia N9.
I guess MS would have none of that.
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My Droid 1 is running ICS and will soon run JB.
That is the advantage of an open source OS.
Except looking at a picture of cell phone is about the same as looking at a generic ATX case and saying "Look at how fast this computer is!"
My Droid 1 is running ICS and will soon run JB. That is the advantage of an open source OS.
What advantage? The iPhone 3GS was released a few months before the Droid and the 3GS runs the latest version of iOS 5 and will soon be running iOS 6.
"Google gives away the source code for their operating system so if you don't trust them you can read through the source code and compile and modify, or pay someone else to."
So if Google is all about openness, where is the source code for their search algorithm, GMail, or any of their other software that gives them a competitive advantage?
Of course they give away the source code to Android, it's not worth anything to them. They make no money off of Android and 66% of their mobile profits comes from iOS.
I'm curious to hear your explanation of why the iPhone 4 can't run Siri in iOS5 and how is that different from the Lumia 900 getting the most obvious new feature from WP 8 (the new Start Screen) but not the other - mainly hardware dependent - features?
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That's a poll put to the users of wpcentral.com
The contention is that Microsoft screwed over its users, and this assertion is coming from people who a) don't use Windows Phone b) never intended to use Windows Phone c) have a history of campaigning against windows phone and d) have no actual data supporting their assertions. I've presented a survey from users who disagree. In one sentence you assert wpcentral is full of fanboys and only view WP in a positive view, yet in the next sentence you assert that since the numbers weren't overwhelmingly positive it goes to show even fanboys don't like the change. And you call me a spinmeister.
How about reaching the obvious conclusion: that wpcentral is not a site of fanboys and represents a varied opinion. I can't imagine you spend a lot of time there if you think the community is all fanboys. What we are is a community of *users* who, as users, are well aware of the shortcomings and limitations of our platform, and are well aware of what WP8 is bringing to the table. We bought these devices because they fit our needs best, and the existence of another OS in the future does not change the decision we made in the past to go with WP7. When they announced WP8, my Lumia 900 did not suddenly become a worse device, and it will be getting features from WP8, so its lifespan is increased.