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what's up everybody Ashley would TechnoBuffalo i am here checking out the Lumia 928 the verizon version of the nokia or nokia lumia 920 I'm gonna be checking it out let's take a look at what makes this a little bit different from the 920 okay so here it is the nokia or nokia depending on where you live in the world Lumia 928 this is the special version that was created for verizon and as you can see we have the verizon red theme happening here wanted to make sure that we were serving up verizon realness we have the branding of course and it's also 4G LTE right there on the back you can see it's a little bit different design here so on the 920 which is here it's not as rounded obviously we have some flatter edges which is a little bit different and then on the back we have a xenon flash instead of two LEDs which that's also in addition that is pretty exciting for a camera enthusiasts and we know that Nokia is traditionally also very enthusiastic about their camera technology Carl Zeiss PureView lenses this one has the same f-stop so they're they're running on very similar camera technology the 928 has a slightly different camera algorithm but other than that they're almost identical the Nokia Lumia 928 has an AMOLED screen which is a little different than the 920 the 920 has an IPS LCD but they do have the same PPI it's 3 30 to 4 and a half inch screens and the same resolution so pretty similar in terms of looks honestly this screen is really beautiful of course with AMOLED the blacks are super deep and rich and you know really does the windows phone 8 UI justice very brightly colored UI that we're all familiar with so let's check out a couple of different things happening on the on the phone here one of the things that a lot of people haven't quite noticed is on the 920 the screen starts at about right here and the bezel on the top is actually a little bit shorter than the bezel at the bottom actually it's quite a bit shorter I want to say it's about half the size of the bezel on the 928 nokia has actually fixed that so now instead of having to kind of reach a little farther with your right thumb you don't have to do that the screen is pretty well centered which is kind of a nice thing if you enjoy typing in landscape mode we have 32 gigabytes of non-expandable storage on board no removable battery but we've pretty much seen that from Nokia up until this point so it's not a huge surprise but for some of you that might be a problem honestly with Windows Phone 8 optimization getting a full days where the battery should not be a problem but I will run through those in my tests and make sure that you're going to get a full day's worth of battery out of the 928 other than that it's pretty similar to the 920 and the 925 in terms of specs they're pretty much identical they're using 1.5 gigahertz Snapdragon s4 plus dual core processor it's got one gig of ram they also both have 8.7 megapixel cameras on the back so you're looking at pretty similar pretty similar cell phones here really it's just a matter of design if you were hoping for colorful phones on the 928 on verizon i'm sorry you're in for some disappointment because if you wanted a beautiful cyan 928 you're not gonna get one the 928 only comes in black and white my friends so if you want any kind of personality you're gonna have to do it with tiles a lot of people are always curious about the apps available for Windows Phone 8 one of the big arguments that I tend to hear from people who are hesitant or on the fence about picking up a Lumia device is that they're not sure that all the apps are quite there so let's let's go to the marketplace and check out what's happening with apps generally speaking I got to be honest if there isn't an official app for it like Instagram there's usually some kind of third-party developer who is kind of picked up the slack on that which is a really nice thing so if we go to the top free apps you can see far post not google has made a youtube app it has a lot of really good ratings facebook pandora skype ESPN of course Nokia's proprietary city lens music driving apps which is which are actually quite good we also have weather highlights cinemagraph which is a really cool camera feature we have netflix SkyDrive I mean pretty much the things that you're looking for are gonna be here on the phone and I know that google is not planning on having native apps but generally speaking nokia it tends to pick up the slack in terms of mapping i don't think that you would be desperately missing anything in particular unless you had some very specific app that was exclusive to either iOS or android that you would be missing this is instance so that's the instagram app very popular and and and also well reviewed a lot of people really like this love being able to post photos on instagram so it's definitely getting better i would say getting better so if you're on the fence give it a shot because honestly windows phone is it's a good operating system as with all of them they have their own pros and cons there are some things that i don't care for in Windows Phone but there are some things I also really like a live tiles is really fun it's a great way to sort of see all of your information at a glance I do like the Xbox integration and it's always really fun to be able to have that available to you obviously SmartGlass a really really cool feature that I'm a big fan of especially with Game of Thrones sue me but yeah that's not that's the basics generally speaking it's the same Windows Phone 8 experience that you're used to getting there's obviously no custom skins like an Android and it really does have extremely similar specs and everything to the 920 and the 925 it's just a matter of really taking a look at it deciding if you want to grab this on verizon obviously verizon traditionally hasn't really supported Windows Phone as much as say AT&T has so this is a really exciting thing for anybody on big red who's been waiting for the Lumia 928 I'll have a full review up in maybe a week or so but please feel free to drop in any questions in the comments and tell me what features you might want to see me cover and I'd be happy to go over to them in the full review until next time you