Next to a phone like the HTC One or the iPhone 5S, the Icon feels pedestrian. There are no beautiful colors here, no feats of engineering. It's 5.86 ounces and 9.9 millimeters thick, and feels a lot like a stretched iPhone 4S â not huge or unwieldy by any means, but far from impressive. But in order to fit a hefty 2,420mAh battery inside next to the 2.2GHz Snapdragon 800 processor and 2GB of RAM, Nokia turned a svelte design into a thick, bulging brick. A thinner version of this phone (see: Lumia 925) would have felt like a machine: a beautiful, futuristic, dangerous weapon of a phone. Specs and performanceįlagship phones demand flagship specs, however, and filling out the Verizon store placard forced Nokia to stifle what could have been a really remarkable design. But thereâs a clear level of fit and finish here that befits a flagship Lumia device. Itâs sharply rectangular, with slightly rounded edges that never felt quite right in my hands and slightly mushy buttons that flex underneath my fingers. The Icon is made of Nokiaâs comfortable matte polycarbonate (in black or white) and a sleek, single-piece aluminum side that makes the phone feel incredibly high-end â it's a near-exact mix of the Lumia 925's metallic aesthetic and the 928's nice-but-drab design. Itâs Nokia caught between two worlds: on one side, the classic spec-based definition of a flagship phone on the other, Nokiaâs ideas for what a beautiful phone looks like. The Lumia Icon feels like nothing so much as a halfhearted attempt, a bunt. There's a gorgeous phone in here somewhere
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For Nokia, for Windows Phone 8, for Microsoft, the stakes couldnât be higher: all three desperately need the Icon to be iconic.
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Microsoft and Nokia are planning huge marketing, plus a push for both the Icon and Windows Phone 8 in Verizon stores everywhere. Its name says everything about its intent, one Nokia doesnât shy away from: this $199 phone is supposed to be big.
The Lumia Icon represents Nokiaâs shared effort with Verizon to bring that ethos to America's largest cellphone carrier. Thatâs what Nokiaâs many Lumia models have all been about, in one way or another. And with Instagram and Snapchat dominating our collective consciousness, taking great pictures is maybe the most important thing a phone can do. As the technology becomes commonplace, itâs beauty and design that will separate one phone from another. In the last two years, Nokiaâs bet over and over on its vision for the next new things: design and photography. No other company has moved the ball forward as many times as Nokia in the last two decades. Nokia thought about mobile gaming long before anyone else, and worked with Spike Lee to make movies for phones well before Netflix had an app.
In 1982, it made the first truly connected phone, the Mobira Senator its Nokia 1100 later became the best-selling consumer electronics product on the planet. And as it shifted from rain-proof soles to cellphone modems in the latter half of the 20th century, Nokia became as innovative and important a technology company as any. Sources close to the matter have revealed that the Lumia Icon is likely to be launched in late January /early February 2014, before the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.The company once known as Finnish Rubber Works made well-loved rubber boots long before it made smartphones. The follow up to the Lumia 928 will be offered in matte black or matte white. Lumia 929 or Lumia Icon for Verizon will have a 20 MP PureView camera with dual LED flash. The 5-inch, quad-core smartphone is powered by a Snapdragon 800 processor at 2.2 GHz with 2 GB of RAM. NPU explains the delay with Verizon’s decision to sign a marketing / promotional deal with Microsoft rather than Nokia, so the US wireless provider needs to wait until Nokia-Microsoft deal is finalized in early 2014. Microsoft is reportedly considering ditching the number designation for the new models and the Lumia 929 could be released as ‘Lumia Icon’. The new Windows Phone is likely to be the first handset offered by Microsoft without the Nokia branding. Multiple sources claim that the future high-end smartphone for Verizon, Nokia Lumia 929, will be launched in Q1 2014, after the Nokia-Microsoft deal is completed. Verizon’s Lumia 929 could be called Lumia Icon
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