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hi I'm dieter bone with the verge and we are here outside of Central Park at 10 o'clock on a Thursday night because nokey invited us out to take a look at the Lumia 920 and more specifically its camera you may have heard that they announced that a brand new Windows Phone 8 device the Lumia 920 and one of the core features of the device is a new camera that takes pictures with optical image stabilization it's something that they're calling PureView now unfortunately Nokia had produced a video to promote the PureView camera and unfortunately it turns out the video was faked we took a very close look at the video and we saw a reflection of a different camera not the Lumia 920 taking the video nokia admitted that they had done this and they posted an official apology for it it turned out later that there were images that also were purportedly from the 920 that were faked as well they were pulled from the video now Nokia did post photos from the Lumia 920 right here in Central Park and those were real but they invited us out here to visit with them to take the photos ourselves and to test the Nokia Lumia 920 up against several other flagship smartphones with very good cameras we tested it against the HTC One X the galaxy s3 the Lumia 900 and I phone 4s to see if they could handle low-light as well as the Nokia Lumia 920 so in our testing both taking photos with ourselves and watching photos taken the Lumia 920 performed very well in low light there was a little bit of blur but generally speaking we had no complaints and in fact we were very impressed with its ability to take still shots under low-light conditions the other cameras phones didn't compare so well they were all very dark there were a couple of phones that managed to do pretty good if we switch them over to the night mode setting specifically the HTC One X and the galaxy s3 handled themselves decently well once you put them into that specific mode now unfortunately nokia would not let us test optical image stabilization with video on the Lumia 920 in fact they told us that it wasn't ready yet although of course it will be ready for launch Nokia Lumia 920 does take very good low-light image but of course they're nowhere near as good as fake images that don't use marketing department them together we're going to have to wait for the final hardware to see what the image stabilization video looks like but unfortunately we just don't know when that's going