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The Nokia Lumia 920 ($99.99 with contract) takes its role as WindowsPhone's "flagship" seriously: It feels like it's the size of an aircraftcarrier. If you're willing to put up with a huge chunk of smartphone inyour pocket, though, you'll get the best performance Windows Phone 8has to offer, along with important, exclusive apps that really enhancethe phone's experience.Whether you like big phones is a personal choice, but know that they're agrowing segment of the market. The Lumia 920 is in the same size classas the LG Optimus G, Motorola Razr Maxx HD, and the HTC Titan II, forinstance. This is where my personal choices diverge from my rating andrecommendation. The Lumia 920 is too big for me. But it might not be toobig for you.Physical DesignThe Lumia 920 is built like a tank. Its main body is a thick block ofpolycarbonate with rolled edges and a 4.5-inch Gorilla Glass screen onthe front. The headphone jack is at the top center of the phone; themicro USB jack is at the bottom center. There's no memory card slot, andthe battery is sealed in. The right side holds the Volume, Power, andCamera buttons. They're all prominent and easy to press, although I keptconfusing the Power and Camera buttons.Nokia offers more color options, but on AT&T, the phone comes inred, white, blue, yellow and black. The red and yellow are both veryaggressive and glossy, like an Italian sports car. The blue is bright,but less exclamatory. The black is matte, the white glossy and sleek. Ofthe bunch, I like the white and blue best. Too many phones are black,and the red and yellow are just bright enough to be divisive.At 5.1 by 2.8 by 0.4 inches (HWD) and over 6.5 ounces, the Lumia 920 isthe biggest, heaviest phone in its class. It's thicker than the LGOptimus G, wider than the Motorola Razr Maxx HD, and taller than the HTCTitan II. It's even heavier than the Samsung Galaxy Note II "phablet."While the Lumia 920 feels solid as a rock, it also weighs your pocketdown like a stone.You get a smaller screen here than on competing Android phones of thesame size (4.5 versus 4.7 inches), but the 920's display is absolutelygorgeous. Nokia has loaded it down with meaningless brand-words like"PureMotion" and "ClearBlack," but what we have here is a1,280-by-768-pixel, IPS LCD panel with intensely deep blacks andsuper-saturated colors. It's higher-density than the Apple iPhone 5'sscreen, at 331 pixels per inch to the iPhone's 325, and it's verybright.Sit the Lumia 920 next to the 4.3-inch HTC 8X, and the 8X looks a littledim and washed out. The bigger screen also makes Windows Phone'ssomewhat picky touch keyboard a lot more usable; I experiencednoticeably fewer typos on the Lumia 920 than I did on the HTC 8X.With seemingly no concerns about weight, Nokia threw a 2000mAh batteryinto the 920's sealed case. I got 9 hours, 56 minutes of 3G talk time,which is very good, and just under four hours of streaming YouTube videoover LTE on high screen brightness, which is average for high-endsmartphones. The 8X had less talk time, but more streaming video timethanks to its smaller screen.One of its stand-out features, the 920 features wireless charging, whichNokia talks about with great enthusiasm, but which variousmanufacturers and carriers have been trying to promote for years withlittle success. Wireless charging isn't completely wireless, of course: Acharging pad still needs to be plugged into an outlet, but you don'tneed to plug anything into the actual phone itself. 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Voice callquality here is better than on the HTC 8X. The earpiece and speakerphoneare louder, and there's a ton of side-tone, preventing you from yellinginto the phone.The phone had no problem pairing with a Plantronics Voyager Legend$97.95 at Amazon Marketplace Bluetooth headset and triggeringMicrosoft's voice commands from the headset. The voice command software,however, isn't great. It dials the phone just fine, but free-formqueries like "how's the weather?" generate Web searches rather thandirect answers.AT&T's LTE network typically offers the fastest downloads in thenation, where it's available. Right now it covers 80 cities, well shortof Verizon's 400 LTE markets. Here in New York, I've gotten consistentlyfaster results on AT&T than on Verizon. In our most recentpre-hurricane tests in New York, we saw 19.21Mbps down on AT&T ascompared to only 7.67Mbps on Verizon. Performance really varies city bycity, though, so make sure to check our Fastest Mobile Networks tests,which covered 30 U.S. cities.The Lumia 920 supports an insane number of frequency bands, making itable to connect to global HSPA+ and LTE networks¡athat is, if AT&Thas roaming agreements with those carriers. Right now there are no LTEroaming agreements in place, so international roaming will be atstill-impressive HSPA+ 42 speeds.The Lumia 920 also supports 2.4GHz and 5GHz 802.11 a/b/g/n Wi-Fi,Bluetooth 3.0, GPS, and NFC. It works as a Wi-Fi hotspot for up to 5devices with the appropriate data plan. Both the Lumia 920 and the HTC8X were able to max out my 15Mbps cable connection over Wi-Fi.Apps, Maps, and ExclusivesThe Nokia Lumia 920 and HTC 8X both use the same 1.5GHz dual-coreQualcomm S4 Krait processor, and both show similar benchmark results. Oncross-platform benchmark Antutu, they perform similarly to the topechelon of Android phones. On Web browser benchmarks, they show thecharacteristics of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10: surprisingly slowBrowsermark scores, fast Sunspider Javascript scores, and great GuimarkHTML5 gaming scores. In my experience, that means pages appeared tostart rendering more slowly than on competing Android phones, but oncepages were rendered, they scrolled smoothly and interactive elementsresponded quickly.For the ins and outs of the platform, read our Windows Phone 8 review.The difference in performance between these Windows phones is more aboutthe included apps, and here Nokia has an edge. Nokia Maps, Drive, andTransit are a very big deal. Microsoft's Bing Maps isn't nearly up tothe quality of Google Maps on Android. It has no turn-by-turn,voice-guided navigation, no transit directions, and a limited POIdatabase with, in my neighborhood, a lot of inaccuracies. AT&T putsTelenav on its phones, but it costs $9.99 per month or $1.99 per day.Nokia Maps is more attractive than Bing Maps, integrates TripAdvisorreviews, and has both spoken turn-by-turn and transit directions.Unfortunately, the transit directions are buggy (telling me to take anexpress train to a local stop, for instance), and once I triggered thedriving directions, I couldn't figure out how to quit them¡aresulting inthe phone telling me randomly to "turn right" at various other pointsin the evening.Nokia has a deep bench of other exclusive apps, too. City Lens is anentertaining augmented-reality gimmick that superimposes map points ofinterest over your camera's view. Nokia offers exclusive ESPN, ESPNFantasy Football, and Sesame Street apps, as well as random items likethe classic action-adventure game Mirror's Edge. With Windows Phone wellbehind Apple and Android in the app race, your phone needs all the appsit can get, and Nokia has them.AT&T also adds five apps of its own: a QR code scanner, the"AT&T FamilyMap" GPS tracker, Telenav, AT&T Radio (inferior tothe free Nokia Music), and AT&T U-Verse Live TV ($9.99 per month fora range of big-name TV channels.)Multimedia, Camera, and CamcorderNokia oversold the Lumia 920's good but not extraordinary 8.7-megapixelstill camera, but the video camera here is an industry leader. Thecompany also adds some genuinely interesting, proprietary software toimprove the camera experience.The 8.7-megapixel shooter captures 3,552-by-2,000 images. In my tests,in good light, colors were very saturated and warm. Images were a littlesofter than on the HTC 8X, but appealingly so; the 8X's pictures looklike they've been through a sharpen filter. But the Lumia 920 doesn'tlive up to its PureView branding because of its low-light performance.When I took a range of shots outside at dusk and inside during a party,the camera kicked shutter speeds down far enough to make all movingobjects blurry. Yes, it does a very good job in low light if you'retaking pictures of something that's absolutely still, but this cameraisn't a panacea if you need decent shutter speeds.The 1-megapixel front camera takes shots with a slightly bluish cast,but the images have better dynamic range than phones like the HTC 8X,which tend to blow out bright backgrounds.The video camera, on the other hand, managed to record smooth 1080pvideos even in a dark party, and the optical image stabilization removedjitter in a way the 8X couldn't match. Interestingly, the 8X'svideos¡awhile stuck at a lower frame rate¡awere noticeably brighter, butI'll take frame rate over brightness; you can fix brightness whileediting. Nokia also offers some exclusive "lens" apps, including a basicphoto editor and Cinemagraph, which turns still images into half-videothings that look like animated GIFs.Music and video performance is par for the course with Windows Phone;read our Windows Phone 8 OS review for the playback and syncing options.Nokia adds Nokia Music, an exclusive set of intelligent, streamingradio channels (either DJ-created or automatically spawned from afavorite artist) including the ability to cache mixes offline. Thismakes up for Windows Phone's lack of Pandora Radio, for sure.Video looks especially good on the Lumia 920's screen, thanks to thosevery, very deep blacks. Audio works fine over wired or Bluetoothheadsets, and there are custom EQ and Dolby options which improve anat-times-thin sound. Nothing generates the powerful bass of HTC's BeatsAudio, but some people don't care for bass that thumping. The Lumia'sspeakerphone, on the other hand, is considerably louder than the 8X's.There is no apparent way to hook the Lumia 920 up to a TV for video out.ConclusionsWindows Phone is an elegant, attractive OS which integrates very wellwith Windows 8 and is positively terrific for social networking. Themajor downside is that while you'll be able to find apps you like, youprobably won't be able to find the same apps your friends with iOS orAndroid phones have. As the flagship WP8 handset, The Nokia Lumia 920has many things going for it, and only one dealbreaking issue: It's bothhuge and heavy. Whether you like big phones is a personal choice. Idon't, but all of the people who routinely abuse me in comments when Italk about this do, so there you have it.Compared with other Windows Phones (not only the HTC 8X, but the Lumia810, 820, 822, and the upcoming HTC 8S and Samsung Ativ Odyssey), thiswill likely be the most capable. It'll probably have the best camera,the most built-in storage, the loudest built-in speaker, and the bestscreen. And Nokia's software exclusives aren't bloat: They're needed.At $99.99, the Lumia 920 is a steal. It's (perplexingly) $100 less thanthe 16GB HTC 8X, which is slimmer but slightly less capable, and it'salso $100 less than competing devices like the Apple iPhone 5 andSamsung Galaxy S III $179.99 at Amazon Wireless. You're getting a lot ofvalue for money here.Should you buy the Lumia 920 instead of one of those phones? Ignore theprice differences, and it all comes down to the platform. The Lumia 920competes well with both of those phones on hardware. But with only 60percent of the 95 top Android and Apple apps available on the WindowsPhone platform, you have to be comfortable with being a maverick tochoose a Windows Phone.Until we see the third-party developer community rallying behind WindowsPhone to the same extent it's behind iOS and Android, we won't award anEditors' Choice award to a Windows Phone. I can't call the Lumia 920 mypersonal choice, either, as it's just too big and heavy for me. But itlooks to be the best Windows 8 Phone so far, and if size and weightaren't a concern, the Lumia 920 should be your Windows Phone choice.