Nokia Lumia 920 - And the rest

Well, as you can tell, I kind of lost track of time and missed a few blog posts. To help with Google (or Bing) and it's mountain of pages to search, I am going to keep the remainder of my daily posts I had planned to one post. This one :)

In the car - There is the good news and the bad news. The good news is that it works perfectly with AUX jack of the car stereo and actually pumps out some great sound, certainly gets my approval with the 'acid test' of Swedish House Mafia !. On the negative side, I couldn't get it to work with the Bluetooth in my car. I looked online and this appears to be a reoccurring problem with Windows Phone 8 (very disappointing) but will have to try a few other devices to see if this is really the case. Hopefully an update will be released soon to fix this.

At Work - As a work phone it's really good. Email works as you would expect (every Smartphone supplier has to get this right) but the 'better than iPhone' experience for me came with Calendar and Contacts. For my contacts, I have included my LinkedIn contacts which means that if I have their number in my phone then I also have their picture displayed. This is great way of jogging my memory when a name flashes up on the phone (as my memory is terrible for faces and names) and at a glance allows me to either take the call or just turn over the phone and send it to voicemail. It's hard to appreciate this feature until you have experienced it first hand. With regard to the calendar, it's down to the phone being able to do the basics as well as more high-tech stuff. When you accept a meeting invite, it pops it in your calendar and deletes the email. Secondly all of my calendar items on my computer are also on my phone, the same couldn't be said for my iPhone where I found the calendar integration to be 'clunky'. The only complaint Ilona had about the phone is that she would like to see the option to display the full month but have one or two lines of 'itinerary' at the bottom. This, as you get on the iPhone, makes it easier to flick through the month and see at a glance what you are doing without having to go in and out of day view. Not a problem I noticed myself but it just goes to show the different things that matter to different people. All in all, as a work phone, very good and had work enabled more remote access technologies then it would have been even better.

Battery - I have been thinking throughout the whole trial period how I was going to scientifically compare the battery, turns out I can't. Throughout the trial, I have only run out of power twice, both of those days we were streaming lots of music so this may very well have played a part in it. For me the Lumia 920 has great battery life and certainly had me reaching for the charger far less than the iPhone, and of course when I reached for the charger I had more to select from as it's standard Micro USB. The other neat trick I used on a few occasions was putting it into battery saver mode, particularly when I knew I wouldn't be looking at the phone for a while e.g. in a restaurant. My final tip to Nokia would be to lend a charging pad with their Nokia Lumia 920 trials. I didn't get to use one myself but I think this novelty could easily push someone over the edge from 'trial' to 'purchase'.

I am going to take a few days to put together my final post on the Nokia Lumia 920. Today I am packing up the phone to be sent back to Nokia and it's going to be interesting to see how I feel going back to my Lumia 800. Any chance of trying out a Nokia Lumia 820?