From the Forums: Nokia updates, HTC 8X battery tips, Lumia 920 camera tests

Information technology has been an eventful week with Nokia's contempo Deadmau5 partnership to bring more Lumia love to London, UK. Nosotros managed to turn up and boogie with other attendees while seeing how the Lumia 920 coped with low lighting, high book levels and bags of movement. As well as a number of news stories appearing on the radar, our Windows Phone forum has been busy as e'er.

First up in today'due south roundup is a number of Nokia updates that have been pushed out to owners recently for a number of features. Nosotros covered Nokia Maps today, simply the manufacturer has likewise bumped its Extras + Info, NFC, and Smart Shoot only to name a few. Nosotros noticed the list on our Lumia 920. Congusano created a thread with a screenshot showing the changes applied to the Extras 'app'.

The Lumia 920 has only been available for a month but the company is already pouring hours of time into further enhancing the user experience. It's reassuring for owners to run across support for the flagship Windows Phone already fired up. Have you noticed any modest updates being pushed to your Windows Phone? Bring together in the discussion in the "Extras and Info updated AGAIN" thread.

Some battery tricks for your HTC 8X

Windows Phone Central user Coolknight1968 has published a number of tips to our forums that tin help extend the battery life of your HTC 8X (or other Windows Phone). It'south always wise to get the most out of a single charge as possible, particularly when a charging station or adapter isn't available for a full work twenty-four hour period.

Here'south a snippet of the conclusion:

"At present afterward 2 weeks of utilise and doing the above, yesterday my 8X gave me some good performance. Was all solar day in Edge / GSM + WiFi, I had a call, surfed die Email for four.5 hours, also on this forum had a 5 min phone phone call, from 06:30 to 01:30 I was using it. End of the day I was at 63% power remaining. So now, unless your unit has a defective battery, I am confident my in a higher place listing will help you! This will work for any WP8 device, from Nokia or HTC or Samsung."

Be sure to read up on the full list of tricks and tips on how you can get the most out of your charge cycles present in the "Battery tricks and tips" thread.

Miscellaneous: Lumia 920 camera test with fly-over

A video has been uploaded to YouTube that shows a plane flight over a Windows Phone owner who captured the fly-over using a Lumia 920. Low levels of light coupled with the high volume from the jet engines were no match for the device, which managed to capture a fairly loftier quality recording of the event.

We've previously looked at a number of tests where the Lumia 920 has been put against competitor hardware, too as being put to use at concerts, which we too carried out at the Deadmau5 gig in Brixton, London last nighttime. Head on over to the "Lumia 920 camera capture test" thread to add your $0.02.

Retrieve that you can (of course) create a gratis Mobile Nations account, which is pretty darn gnarly, right? We hope to encounter you over on the Windows Telephone Cardinal forums before long!

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