Video: WP chief declares new Lumia smartphones ‘gorgeous and awesome’

Published by Boc Ly on September 5, 2012

Microsoft’s Windows Phone visionary, Joe Belfiore, has paid tribute to the ‘gorgeous and awesome’ Nokia Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 smartphones that have been unveiled today in New York.

In an interview with Conversations, which you can watch in the video above, Joe said the innovative new smartphones represented Microsoft’s ‘next big chapter in our partnership with Nokia.’

The Lumia 920 and the Lumia 820 are the first Nokia smartphones to run on the new Windows Phone 8 operating system that has been overseen by Joe and his team.

Lumias

How significant is Windows Phone 8?

“It is the release where we fulfil the vision of the Metro UI with the beautiful new start experience and with the underpinnings in common with Windows 8 on the desktop, slates and laptops,” says Joe.

“I think the common technology core with a great new user interface across all our products is going to help developers write more apps, help end users be more productive and happy, and hopefully drive our business together in a significant way.”

Talking pictures

Speaking at the joint Nokia and Microsoft press conference, Joe was especially keen to talk about the camera support that Windows Phone 8 offers.

“The main news today is the camera support that we have added to Windows Phone 8 that Nokia in particular has exploited to build an amazing photography device in this Lumia 920.”

Nokia Lumia 920 and Lumia 820

Our first Windows Phone 8 smartphones.

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Microsoft, said Joe, had added extendibility to the camera experience so that different applications could be created to ‘use our advance pipeline to create all kinds of end user value.’

For its part, the Lumia 920 features the best camera Nokia has ever put in a smartphone.

 ‘A work of art’

Joe has been lucky enough to be using the Lumia 920 as his own phone for quite a while. What does he love the most about the flagship Windows Phone 8 device?

“I really love the screen and the camera both of which are great experiences. But I have to say when I got this near final version in my hand it has got to be the finish and the ID [industrial design]. This is a work of art.”

Comments

  • judazuk

    So does the Nokia Lumia 920 have Rich Recording technology like the Nokia 808 PureView? 

    That would be amazing .. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_H7XZGHA4CN5PQYAMAHRAH7WZWM Don Farmer

    I looked on theVerge and they listed a comparison of the 920 against the current top phones and the features the 920 had were huge compared to the others.  This is a giant leap forward.  I’m currently selling any and all of my androids before they are worthless after people see the 920 and will be using the money towards the wireless charging stand after I buy the 920.  I would try to sell what Apple stuff I have left, but after the FBI Apple ID news I don’t think anyone would want them.

  • http://twitter.com/nok4us Izzi

    Dear joe Belfiore, surely they are BIGGER words you can use to describe the new Lumia phones, gorgeous and awesome? those are adjectives meant for the Lumia 800, the Lumia 920 is gorgeousier and awesomer than any smartphone!

  • Righto

    Really Microsoft, what did you do to the Start Screen? The medium tiles are way to big. Too much whitespace. With WP7 they had the perfect size. Now with WP8 they are bloated and there fit less medium sized tiles on the screen than before. And this is even as there was less space due to the gutter before. What a bad design decision is this?

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/YZ5PG6AKSB46LER2XJYADDW7DE Keith L

    When is the 920 going to come to Canada? Also it should be on multiple carriers since they each specialize in what area of the country they have the best network. I was never able to get an unbranded Lumia 900 LTE to work that would work on Bell.

  • Rob

    The new medium tile size is way too big. It is bloated and too much white space around. There fit less medium sized tiles on the start screen than before.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mitchell-Sheehan/596673792 Mitchell Sheehan

    The Lumia 920 sure is a work of art. On one end is it a real beauty and the other, is it a beast.