Meet the Nokia Lumia 928. (Psst, it's a lot like the Lumia 920.)
Last year, Nokia took the wraps off the Lumia 920, a Windows 8-powered smart phone exclusive to AT&T. This week, Nokia is taking the wraps off the Lumia 928, a Windows 8-powered smart phone exclusive to Verizon Wireless.
Are the Lumia 920 and the Lumia 928 the same phone? No, not exactly. But they are pretty similar,听听ZDNet's Matthew Miller:听Both have a听4.5 inch display,听32GB of internal storage,听1GB of RAM, and a听1.5 GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor. Among the differences? A xenon flash appears on the 928 (very good for indoor photography), as do three next-gen microphones.听
The newest Lumia captures "high-end, distortion-free audio even in the noisiest environments," Nokia's Jason Harris听听in a blog post today.听"It doesn鈥檛 matter if you鈥檙e at a monster truck rally, rock concert or summer party, you鈥檒l have the best audio possible on a mobile with the Nokia Lumia 928 thanks to these high-performance microphones that record sound naturally and distortion-free, up to 140db."听
In addition, the Lumia 928 is than the 920, and gets (slighter) better battery life; the display, meanwhile, is OLED, as opposed to the LCD screen on the 920.听
The big question, of course, is whether the Lumia 928 will perform well for Nokia and Verizon and Microsoft. Early Lumia 920 sales , but from the kind of blockbuster numbers that would have propelled Windows Phone 8 up alongside iOS and Android.
Still, in with TechHive, Carolina Milanesi, an analyst at Gartner, expressed some optimism about the 928's chances.听
鈥淣o vendor can think about being successful in the U.S. without Verizon,鈥� Ms. Milanesi said.听鈥淏eing on Verizon will certainly make a difference to Nokia. How much of a difference will depend on the level of commitment Verizon shows when it comes to advertising and in-store placement.鈥�
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