Sources familiar with Verizon's plans have revealed to The Verge that the US carrier will offer a device that has similar specifications to Nokia's current Lumia We understand that the handset, codenamed Laser, will be a variant of the that's set to debut alongside a Catwalk device.
Sources have revealed that Microsoft is planning to back Verizon's Nokia Laser device heavily. We're told that the Laser will be a flagship device for Verizon, meaning the operator will market it alongside rival top tier devices.
Microsoft is said to be investing marketing dollars to push the Laser when it debuts later this year. A Lumia variant for Verizon has long been rumored, but Big Red customers will be happy to hear that it's almost here. Subscribe to get the best Verge-approved tech deals of the week. Cookie banner We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from.
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Kickstarter Tumblr Art Club. Film TV Games. There's autofocus, image stabilization for the rear camera, and some extra apps you can integrate through the Windows Phone "lens" downloads, like the panorama mode I described above. Why xenon, by the way? Nokia says that the xenon flash is used for images and the LED light kicks in to help focus and to give low-light video recordings a boost. The produces fairly high image quality overall. Outdoor photos were better than indoor, but colors were mostly true and detailed, and images were mostly sharp.
Here's a tour of some common scenes. Note that all photos in this group were taken using automatic settings unless otherwise specified. I tested four cameras' low-light capabilities with the flash off, using just the camera's automatic settings. I was in a dark, underground establishment lit with candles and other warm light sources. The first oddity I noticed in my standard test which I conduct in the exact same location dialing the same landline and using the same audio tester was that the had only two bars of service, unlike the usual three or four bars.
That might have contributed to the mangy audio that followed, where voices sounded uneven, muted, blunted, and harsh. For some good news, volume came across strong and perfectly clear, even at setting 5 of On his side of the call, my main testing partner agreed that I sounded muffled, and noticed that audio distorted at high volume.
I also sounded a little rough to him. Volume and clarity were acceptable. Nokia Lumia call quality sample Listen now:. The speakerphone strangely improved the call experience for me, when I tested by holding the phone at hip level. Unfortunately, the volume dropped to the floor, causing me to bump it up to level 10 of 10 inside my relatively quiet office.
In a loud environment, that just isn't going to cut it. At top volume, voices sounded -- and felt -- buzzy in my hands. While there wasn't any noise, I did hear a little bit of vocal distortion. Speakerphone volume also dropped on my tester's end of the line, and he said I became hard to hear.
My speakerphone seemed to enhance the echo, which he said wasn't pleasant. Otherwise, audio quality sounded about the same, but I sounded dramatically improved when I switched back to the standard earpiece. Performance Data performance on the Lumia perplexed me, only because diagnostic and real-world speeds were much slower than they typically are on Verizon's usually zippy network. I called in two separate handsets for diagnostic and real-world testing, and both were slower than I expected.
However, since the time I initially posted this review, many CNET readers have written in with their positive speed experiences, so I wouldn't avoid this phone based on my experiences in this department. Diagnostic speed tests on consistently read more like fast 3G or not-LTE 4G, and I tested both phones over the course of several days in both indoor and outdoor locations throughout San Francisco.
Real-world speeds on the second review unit sped up, but right now I'm wondering if there's an issue with the 's antenna placement that's slowing things down. You won't notice any lag, I'm happy to report, when you're connected to a strong Wi-Fi network. For its part, Qualcomm's 1. Most apps open with little delay, save for the camera app, which takes a solid 3 seconds to load up on Windows Phone OS. The mobile platform also takes longer to focus and transition from shot to shot, which means that you could miss a moment, even if you're triggering the camera through the handy dedicated button on the phone's side -- this is a known drawback with Windows-based phones.
The 's 2,mAh battery has typical battery life, about a day for practical usage, or from morning to night. The phone has a rated talk time of
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