Im loving my lumia 920 and here's why!
While making a long trip over the holiday break, my speedo cable in my car snapped (I rock a DA teggy). I was using the rpm's to guess my speeds but I thought to myself "lets see if this nokia navigation has anything useful." I start it up and right on the initial screen of the app it had a "mph," which shocked me. So I am using that as I wait for my part. Just a few hours ago, I was thinking, "man it would be cool to put my integra service manual onto my phone," so I went onto skydrive, uploaded the da service manual (thanks to the person who dedicated their life to make sure every page of this huge manual was online and for free!!!), downloaded the "pdf reader" app on the wp app store and now I have it all on my phone! Everything is so seamless (simple copy and paste) between computer and my phone.
I got some car grease on my phone (cyan 920). Just using some rag, it wiped right off. I was at a store reading and a few people asked me what phone I had (it was similar to that samsung commercial where the apple sheeps are in line suprised by the gs3, lol). Just being able to put tiles updating my stock positions is wonderful. I digging the picture and video quality too.
I am learning something new with the lumia 920 + windows phone 8 and so far its going good. I know there are a few things that are lacking but I like how nokia/microsoft are eager for feedback. A great device.
I thought I'd share some cool apps I found too that go well with the lumia 920/windows 8 for new users like myself.
Here they are:
-"my stocks portfolio" -- live tiles of your holdings, performance
-"appflow app discover" -- nice apps that might be not popularly known
-"family guy" -- soundboard of family guy. This one costs money on another platform so its cool its free here.
-"pdf reader" -- It had bad reviews before it was fixed so ignore the reviews. You have to upload from sky drive. Great app
-"baby monitor" -- You can turn your pc into a webcam. I think the app should be renamed because it can be more than a baby monitor.
-"PC remote" -- you can turn your phone into a remote. Turn off, hibernate operate a few things too and even use it as a track pad.
I posted the not so known ones that I am enjoying. I have noticed that wp8 users are more into astronomy compared to other platforms for some reason but that's a plus for me!
Battery life was weird at first but after the first drain, its pretty good now. One thing for sure is after you download a ton of apps, make sure you look into "background apps" and turn the ones you don't want to run in the background.
Thats all! I only have only gripe so far. When your typing somethig on the nokia and you want to make a correction few sentences above, its so hard to get between to letters because there isn't a zoom feature that shows where your putting your thumb over. Either its a miss that nokia or ms overlooked or crapple has it patented, lol.