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back to article It's official: Nokia's Verizon Lumia 928 is here

Nokia's long-rumoured exclusive phone for Verizon, the Lumia 928, has been officially announced. It's really a Lumia 920 with a more tapered body, an AMOLED (Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode) screen, and a proper, grown-up Xenon camera flash. It's also lost some weight: at 161.5g, it's a fair bit lighter than the …

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  1. joeW
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    Xenon flash?

    Oh thank christ one company hasn't forgotten how to put one of those on a phone. It's one of the things I miss the most from my 2006 Sony Ericcson K800i - that and the sliding lens cover.

    I might be tempted back to Nokia for the first time since the 3310.

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    1. Fuzz
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      Re: Xenon flash?

      My HTC Mozart had a xenon flash, I thought it would be good, being a bit of a photographer and knowing that a proper flash helps freeze motion as well as providing lighting. Turns out that the phone still took pictures that look like they were taken on a phone and the xenon flash couldn't double as a torch. My current phone has an LED flash and whilst it's not a particularly great flash, it's a very useful torch.

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      1. MacroRodent
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        Re: Xenon flash?

        Let's wait for the GSMArena test. High-end Nokias do tend to have good cameras whose results don't look like mobile phone pics.

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  2. Simon Harris

    You've got red on you.

    They could have chosen a different Windows Phone colour scheme for their photos.

    Does anyone else see that much red on a screen and guess that it's a Virgin branded phone?

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    1. Simon Harris
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      Re: You've got red on you.

      D'oh - should have checked the Verizon website before posting - red seems to be their colour too!

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    As Bob Vistakin asked, can it be flashed with Android? If it can then you would finish up with a descent phone.

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    1. The_Regulator
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      First come up with something original. Second come up with something original. Third you are wrong.....such a lame comment.

      Personally I cannot wait for the EOS later this year, potentially a 41mp sensor (not that size is everything but...)

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    2. Bob Vistakin
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      It wouldn't surprise me to find out there actually was a totally compatible Android hardware layer underneath all this. Once the shareholders see sense, as they appear to be doing recently, Android handsets will then just be a case of applying decent software to the great hardware Nokia is known for plus some case retooling.

      Clearly, Elop is standing on a burning platform now so hasn't that long to go.

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    3. Anonymous Coward
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      These come with Windows Phone 8 - which is much better than Android - more efficient and responsive, faster to complete every day tasks, better maps and nav, integrated social networking, an MS Office client and zero Malware....

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  4. Simon Harris
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    1280 x 768 on a 4 1/2" phone screen...

    just goes to show how pants standard laptop screens are with their similar pixel counts!

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  5. Arctic fox
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    I see that Eadon got on first, oh well.......

    ......that's another thread down the khazi.

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