Nokia Lumia 920 Vs Samsung Galaxy S III

Nokia has at-last unveiled its flagship Lumia 920 for India market to take its fight with smartphone leaders like Samsung and Apple.

Described as the best ever Windows 8 phone, the Lumia 920 can be a direct competion to hot selling high-end smartphones like Galaxy S III or even iPhone 5.

Here we look at how would Lumia 920 fair when pitted against the popular Glaaxy S III :

Windows Phone 8-powered Nokia Lumia 920 scores positive reviews then its comes to introduction of new features. But Lumia 920 scores negative remarks for it boxy design.

Lumia 920 is discribed blurry, but, is hailed for its software and hardware combo. NOkia has tried hard to bring a host of unique featues, screen quality, camera, better call quality and sound recording and playback. But, in the process, Nokia has sacrifised on compact
factor, a sought after feature in any latest smartphones.

The new top end Lumia phones also offers free offline voice-guided navigation, to solidify its uniqueness before Samsung's handset. Analyst view the phone's Nokia PureView camera technology and Carl Zeiss lens as the most impressing feature. The camera has proved to be
capable of delivering perfect image even in moon light conditions. As part of the development of PureView Nokia has improved the low-light usability of the camera to such an extent that it leaves rival smartphone scrabbling around in the dark.

Call quality:

As per various reviews an excellent call quality can be had with the Lumia 920 - the voices in the earpiece sound strong and clean, and the tri-microphone setup weeds out ambient noises for the other when we speak. The Galaxy S III also offers very good call quality in the ear piece and noise cancellation, but with less clean voices being relayed to the listening side.

Battery:

Nokia has come up with a biggest ever batter it had on any smartphones, but still the Galaxy SIII provides battery life advantage.

Lumia 920 has a 2,000 mAh battery but Galaxy S III has 2,100 mAh unit.

Galaxy S III provides battery life than the Lumia 920 in official talk times (12 hours vs 10 hours in 3G mode), and 9 hours vs 6 hours of video playback, but the browsing times are similar due to the power-hungry AMOLED when displaying white website backgrounds.