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chucky234: Where did you borrowed your lies,the fact that Nokia is cash crunched is an open secret as their market shares has been on down slide in the last few years.
For you to say that Nokia has a better chance of survival than HTC shows that you don't have a clue about what is happening in the global telephony industry,almost all the manufacturers you listed above including the ailing Nokia depend on HTC for many software.
When you said patents what were you referring to?

Lord_Reed: Take it easy man. No one says Nokia is moving out, read the article well. It clearly states that Nokia will lease back the property.

kellystech: Dey should just give up dia ego and sign contract with google to produce android, dem go sell scatter cos people still loves dia product

OlaAjia: Lumia 920 is not the WP8 flagship device, it is Nokia's flagship device. Nokia =/= WP8

When OSes and UIs get to a certain level of fluidity, adjudging one as the best becomes an exercise in futility. The fact is that the perception of UIs is a matter of user experience and this is obviously very subjective. That said, I think the iOS is a bit obsolete as it leaves no room for surface customization, kind of bland. I like the Android OS as it is the most customizable in the market today, but Andriod is rather harsh on hardware and thus, depends on battery zapping features such as quad-core to give optimal user experience. Never touched WP7 or 8, but I understand they are both light on Hardware and maintain a lot of fluidity. This could be a deal breaker for me, as I am willing to put my quid on the WP8 powered Lumia 920 device.

Also, I'm in love with the new Monster purity pro headsets (BH-940) as I am a bluetooth headset junkie, and what better way is there to enjoy a headset than to use one that perfectly matches your phone in style.

OlaAjia: Lumia 920 is not the WP8 flagship device, it is Nokia's flagship device. Nokia =/= WP8

When OSes and UIs get to a certain level of fluidity, adjudging one as the best becomes an exercise in futility. The fact is that the perception of UIs is a matter of user experience and this is obviously very subjective. That said, I think the iOS is a bit obsolete as it leaves no room for surface customization, kind of bland. I like the Android OS as it is the most customizable in the market today, but Andriod is rather harsh on hardware and thus, depends on battery zapping features such as quad-core to give optimal user experience. Never touched WP7 or 8, but I understand they are both light on Hardware and maintain a lot of fluidity. This could be a deal breaker for me, as I am willing to put my quid on the WP8 powered Lumia 920 device.

Also, I'm in love with the new Monster purity pro headsets (BH-940) as I am a bluetooth headset junkie, and what better way is there to enjoy a headset than to use one that perfectly matches your phone in style.

OXYZ: Biko, wetin una dey call wp8.Please,enlighten my ignorance.

The main difference is the operating system
(OS) it runs. Windows phones run windows
phone OS. Other smartphone OSes include
Symbian, Android, iOS and BBOS.

The OS is just like Windows 7 or Windows XP if you're referring to PCs. Its like the software which stop everyother thing on the phone.

On phones, the OS determines the user interface
(UI) of the phone, the apps you use, the phones
you buy and a whole lot of other things.

Now to WP OS. The most recent version is WP8
which is based on Windows OS. It will use
thesame metro interface as Windows 8 on PCs
and Windows 8 RT on Windows tablets.

On a more technical part, its a well advanced OS
as it uses thesame kernel as Windows 8 on a
computer and also supports DirectX. In simple
terms, these will ensure it will get advanced
apps and games as games on the PC can easily be ported over.

As regards the UI, it has a very interesting,
unique, easy to use, fast, advanced and
colourful UI. The UI essentially combines the
easy-to-use and fast nature of iOS with the
advanced and customizable UI of android. This
effectively combines the advantages of both and to me its the best, most suitable and most
advanced currently.

Finally, as regards the hardware. WP8 currently
has the most unique and exciting hardware
around.
First its phones come in multiple vibrant colours
and you can even change it on some (Lumia
820). Apart from that, its flagship device which is the Nokia Lumia 920 currently has the most
advanced display, the most advanced camera,
the best mapping or navigation
system and much better battery life than its
competitors. It also has other nice features like
a solid and beautiful build, wireless charging, NFC support and a curved screen.

In essence, I think I've been able to give you a
good summary of windows phone operating
system and the latest version in particular.

civac: ...pls how good is nokia 701. A friend wants to sell his own.

omafones: Having handled the iPhone 5 and the Nokia Lumia 900, if the 920 has a similar or better to the 900, it is definitely better than the iPhone 5.

only thing the iPhone will have in it's favour is the number of 'apps' but if windows 8 has the most important apps (there is also talk of an app that will allow android apps work on the windows 8 phones)then I think the windows 8 phones especially the lumia 920 will really give the iPhone a fight

jmaine: Lol, why say so ? . . . .One thing is certain, Jedisco will be happy at least

Lord_Reed: The Android fragmentation is a pain for many people and seems to frustrate those who should be having an easy time of making use of the OS and its ecosystem.

In this thread I want to see if we can discuss possible solutions.

I think two solutions to the fragmentation are:

1. Let the OEMs be mandated to ship stock Android on their phones by Google then offer their UI customizations as downloadable content. This would solve the update issue as all Google has to do is create the stock ROMs with hooks for the UI customizations. Everything pretty much runs as an app so this shouldn't be hard and since Google has to optimize the OS for wide range of hardware they'd be forced to make it more efficient in utilizing system resources.

2. Google should create an app zoom-er native to the OS and declare a particular size for all apps as standard for all app developers to use. The app zoom-er will scale the app to the screen size on the current hardware the app is running on.
This should help app developers cut down on the number of adjustments they have to make and possible even out the fragmentation between phones and tablets.

What is your idea?

Overlord999: Somebody is pissed off.
From the list features you wrote for lumia 920,its seems like you are the one copying and pasting from online sites. And yes some of its features are just marketing c
Gimmicks . Like puremotion hd(which is just Clearblack renamed to something fancier, so that they can draw attention ), 60hz refresh rate. Amoleds refresh rate has always been at 60hz. So nothing new. As for iphone having higher sales if you can remove your fanboys Googles and think 4 a moment you should realize that anybody that wants the IOS experience has no choice but to buy an iphone,its only place you can get that. As for a android, there to many oem making android phones. Imagine if galaxy s3 was the only high end android phone available. It's sales would be equally or higher than iphone. I would be waisting my time trying to prove note 2 is better than lumia 920.

Bawss1: Anyone willing to speculate how much the Lumia 920 will sell for in 9ja? Obviously it's going to be way less than what the I5 is going for. I think it will be in the 95 - 100K range. Anyways, thats going to be my next mobile purchase.

Lumia 920 FTW

aieromon: Hehehe. I recently ditched the Nokia N8 for the Sony Xperia S but it still doesn't give me that exciting feeling I had with my previous Nokia devices. I don't have any issues with the android OS as I currently enjoy the Galaxy Tab 10.1.I just hope Microsoft and Nokia don't let WP8 go the way of Meego.
Nokia don jazz me jor!

Overlord999: Am using an android phone. But dat doesn't mean am a fandroid. Am loyal only to what's best for me & for most people. I have nothing against nokia. If meego was still supported. I would still be using N9. But as for wp8 hell no. Evil Microsoft is trying to suck nokia dry. And buy them cheap later on.

Overlord999: I see lot of nokia fanboys here. Hoping one day Nokia can become glorious again . Well will have to wait for sales to do the talking. Galaxy note, Which was considered a niche smartphone outsold the entire lumia phones, how pathetic And for the record I don't own a galaxy s3. Waiting for note 2(which absolutely blows lumia 920 out of the water)

Orochimaru11: I'm not selling my n8.i just want to taste android.

Soul_caine: Just want to thank my family for being there for me, my friends for staying true and my enemies for propelling me forward. Its an honour and a rare priviledge to have the first post.*lifting oscar-like trophy* to the youngs ones out there just believe in urself and pray onila, afam4eva, humbledbygrace are not online. Peace.