Nokia Lumia 920 Review: The Game Changer Is Here!! (Part-1)

It is more than 2 weeks since I got my Nokia Lumia 920 in matte black finish, and there are so many things yet to explore!

Man..Nokia is back in business with its WP8 phone series and Lumia 920 being the flagship model, has changed the game for Nokia and brought the much awaited fortune to world's most trusted and beloved and adored Finnish cellphone maker!

In this article, we will just see the hardware and aesthetics part and some key features of Lumia 920 that make it stand apart in the crowd of smartphones.

The Appearance- The very first thing you notice about Lumia 920 is, it is a stunner! And a heavy weight stunner. (184 gms!) It comes in 5 colors. Black in matte finish and Red, Cyan, White, Yellow in glossy finish. But black looks absolutely outta this world!

It's heavy weight is a result of Nokia's revolutionary PureView camera sensor ( The same thing that comes in Nokia Pureview 808 with 41 MP camera) and the uni-body poly-carbonate build! It has a Micro-sim tray on the top along with a standard 3.5 MM audio jack port. And 3 standard Windows phone keys on the right. Volume rocker, Power and Shutter key. 

At the bottom there are 2 speaker grills and the Micro-USB charging port. Behind the phone is its unique and one of its kind Pure view 8.7 MP camera with dual LED lights. The Camera of Lumia 920 is altogether a different saga! We will see it in details later on. And the front is occupied by the gorgeous  and best in the market Pure Motion HD+ , 4.5 inch Super AMOLED Gorilla Glass with corning,   capacitive touchscreen. The screen itself is also another epic story to tell. 

Front side also has a secondary camera with usual sensors and the ear-piece on the top. The lower part of the screen has three capacitive touch keys, back illuminated by white LED (which actually looks pretty awesome). A back button, Windows Home button and Bing Search key! 

This combination together forms a massive looker called- Nokia Lumia 920!

I have handled iPhone 3GS, 4S and have owned 2 Android smartphones before this. And I have been a huge fan of Android since a long time. And I must say WP8 is a cool new breeze in the IOS and Android dominated Cellphone OS market. The OS part will come in further discussions in details.

The Hardware- This tank comes loaded with the latest and the best in the market hardware.

Just to mention few things -
1.5 GHz Dual Core Krait CPU, Adreno 225 GPU, 1 GB RAM, Qualcomm Snapdragon Chipset, 32 GB Storage, 2000 mAH Battery and what not! 

You can always check full specifications on Nokia site. The point here is, Nokia Lumia 920 is nowhere behind in the Android powerhouses hardware race..in fact much ahead of them in many senses.

In next review, we will see the WP8 OS experience, the Screen and the Camera in details. Keep watching! And don't forget to share and comment if you liked this article!

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Nokia Lumia 510: A Tale of Contacts Transfer from Old Samsung Phone!

Well…...this is not a review of Nokia Lumia 510. But it is an interesting and exciting (at the same time- frustrating) tale of transfer of contacts from old Samsung mobile (from pre-android era) to new Nokia Lumia 510.

The problem at hand was as follows:

1. Old Samsung phone had around 1000 contacts.
2. Nokia Lumia Windows Phone Series did not support contacts transfer through Bluetooth. (They say this issue has been resolved with Windows 7.8 Update. However, we have not tested it).
3. It was not possible to copy-paste contacts in multiple cycles through sim-card, since Nokia Lumia supports micro-sim and old Samsung did not.
4. Manual entry of contacts was not possible (or plausible) since adding 1000 contacts manually is a cumbersome task.

What we did?

1. We took the back-up of contacts from old Samsung mobile. It was in VCF (vCard) format. So, we had around 1000 VCF contacts with us.
2. Now, we could not transfer these contacts through Outlook, since we already had a lot of contacts existing in Outlook and to mix those with these new one could have created sorting problem.
3. Next solution was to import these contacts to Google Contacts and syncing that Google Account with Lumia.
4. Now to manually import the 1000 different VCF files into Google Contacts was not practical solution.
5. So, the next (natural) step was to search for a freeware on internet, which can convert multiple VCFs into single CSV/Excel file.
6. Needless to say, it was a disaster. We found few paid softwares. But not a single free software which could convert them in Google contacts format.
7. Now what? Next (natural) step! Find the freeware which can convert multiple VCF files into single VCF file. 
8. Again, no freeware found!
9. Next invention: We do not need any freeware for it. It can be done by running a simple command through Windows Command Prompt.
• Go to command prompt. (Windows Button -> Search Program Files Box -> Enter ‘cmd’ Or Press Windows+R -> Enter ‘cmd’ in message box)
• Go to the directory in which VCF contacts are stored (‘CD’ command can be useful)
• Copy Following test: COPY *.vcf all.vcf
• This will copy all VCFs into a single VCF file: all.vcf. You can name the file as you wish. Your original VCFs will remain intact.
• Now just import this single VCF file to Google Contacts. And hurrah! All the contacts will be uploaded……………but wait! 
10. This may work for you. But, unfortunately, it did not for us. Single VCF file was created. It was imported to Google Contacts. But, alas! It did not work. No contact was uploaded.
11. Back to square one! Now what? Search…..again! Frustration is mounting!
12. And then we found the solution in Google Product Forums (thanks to the User – Saandip).
• Go to command prompt. (Windows Button -> Search Program Files -> Enter ‘cmd’ Or Press Windows+R -> Enter ‘cmd’ in message box)
• Go to the directory in which VCF contacts are stored (‘CD’ command can be useful)
• Copy Following test: for /F "delims=" %i in ('dir /b *.vcf') do @more "%i" >> all.vcf
• This will copy all VCFs into a single VCF file: all.vcf. You can name the file as you wish. Your original VCFs will remain intact.
• Now just import this single VCF file to Google Contacts. And hurrah! All the contacts will be uploaded.
13. After that, click on 'People' tile in Nokia Lumia 510 Windows Mobile Phone. Go to ‘Settings’. And add the Google Account. Sync it. And your contacts will appear in your contacts list in Nokia Lumia.

Do you have similar experiences? Please share with us!

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