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Everyone who regularly deals with cold winters knows the pain of using a smartphone in January — you’re usually forced to take your gloves off and risk frostbite if that call just can’t wait. Nokia’s new Lumia 820 and Lumia 920 phones bring in a Synaptics ClearPad Series 3 sensor whose responsiveness will keep those hands toasty. Super Sensitive Touch, as Nokia calls it, lets the capacitive surface react to more than just direct skin contact: it can recognize input through gloves, as well as from those with long fingernails. You’ll want to spring for the Lumia 920 if you envision updating Twitter during a sunny skiing trip, however. On top of that extra-large 1,280 x 768 resolution, the 920’s PureMotion HD+ display is reportedly about 25 percent brighter than its next-best rival. We’re looking forward to a real field test — not to mention preserving all the feeling in our fingers.

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Nokia Lumia screens tout Synaptics tech for gloves-on use, 920 adds outdoor-friendly brightness originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The first new Windows Phone 8 feature to appear alongside Nokia’s Lumia 920 launch is the camera-augmenting Lens apps. Offering both in-house and third-party programs, (and no more zoom bar — pinch-to-zoom!), these will all launch immediately from the camera button. On stage, Joe Belfiore detailed a handful of the apps, encompassing Bing Vision (camera-based search), Photosynth, Blink, FXSuite, PhotoStrip and CNN iReport. FXSuite offers up a preview of your viewfinder in all your favorite token visual effects, which can capture an image, and then send you back to the single Lens app, or back to the Lens menu. As to be expected, all your photographic skills can be instantly transferred across to your SkyDrive-powered cloud camera roll — something that could be especially useful with the Blink app, which captures a burst of photos in one touch.

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Windows Phone 8 introduces new Lens apps: Bing Vision, Photosynth and CNN iReport launching from the camera button originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 Sep 2012 10:52:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Ahead of Nokia’s Windows Phone event, there’s been plenty of discussion about the Lumia 920’s PureView classification, and though the camera’s pixel count remains TBA, we’re still getting a few sneak peeks at the upcoming hardware. Yesterday, leaked press photos of a Lumia wireless charging pad suggested that the new phone will be available in yellow and red. Based on a tweet from EVLeaks today, it looks like the Lumia 920 will be available in a few additional shades: white, grey and black. EVLeaks previously tweeted pics of the Lumia 820 in seven different hues, so it looks like we’re in for a (ahem) colorful event tomorrow.

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Leaked photo shows Nokia Lumia 920 with five color options originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Sep 2012 11:16:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Yes, we want PureView technology in at least one of Nokia’s forthcoming Lumias. But let’s be specific: it needs to be that same type of PureView that helps the 808 to take such amazing images, with something at least similar to that 41-megapixel sensor. That’s why it’s slightly perturbing to hear The Verge‘s suggestion from “sources familiar with the matter” that the Lumia 920 will ship with a paltry 8-megapixel version of PureView, which doesn’t sound like it could deliver the same noise reduction or lossless zoom or other powers. With the expected announcement just two days distant, let’s hope it ain’t so.

Update: Damian Dinning, Imaging Experience Manager at Nokia, has decided to get into the debate, while trying to steer around any secrets locked down for later this week. In a series of tweets, he says that PureView itself is about “blending optics, pixels and image processing in new and different ways,” hinting at the high-end Carl Zeiss lens and the built-in image processing algorithms that are part of the 808 PureView’s camera package. He adds: “it’s not about the number of pixels but what you do with them” suggesting that a Lumia PureView could arrive without those awesome oversampling skills, but packing a similar set of optical and software features.

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Is the Nokia Lumia 920 coming with 8-megapixel FauxView? (Update: Nokia’s Imaging Head weighs in) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 03 Sep 2012 10:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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