When it comes to Windows 8 phones, few if any can rival the Nokia Lumia 920. With Finland's Nokia having shipped a million units of the Lumia 920 within its first month of being on the market at the end of last year, it's just as clear that the phone is also a very popular one.
Part of what makes the Lumia 920 not only popular among smartphone fanatics and critics alike (having earned PC Advisor's Most Appealing Smartphone award, besting the likes of the Sony Xperia Z, HTC One, Apple iPhone 5 and Samsung Galaxy S4) is its stellar design. This is why we're delighted that Nokia is rumored to be making the Lumia 920 even more eye-catching with the new color option of mint green.
Already, the Lumia 920 comes in six colors: black, cyan, gray, red, white and yellow. But if Phones Review is correct in its revealing that Nokia might be coming out with a mint green variant of the Lumia 920, we can only say it sounds like a refreshingly tasty development.
The problem, of course, is that the rumor of Nokia releasing a Mint Green variant of its Lumia 920 may very well just be that. Particularly as the rumor apparently kicked off on — you guessed it — Monday, April 1.
Is the Lumia 920 mint green variant merely an April Fools' joke?
"If so, this was indeed a good prank, as reports on the possible launch of this device in the coming weeks have already started to emerge," Softpedia says.
The mint green variant of Nokia's Lumia 920 was first "teased" on Nokia Jordan's Facebook page and has since then received countless comments and has spurred numerous reports that the new Nokia color may actually be real.
Nokia Jordan may be cracking a joke here with the mint green Lumia 920 variant, but with nearly 260,000 likes on Facebook, the page that purports to "connect with Nokia & fans from Jordan and the Levant" clearly doesn't mess around. Even if the company's creation date is listed on the page's Basic Info page as being "1865" (the date that Nokia as a company was actually first established as a paper mill).
"While having more flavors of the same handset available for purchase could prove a great thing for sales, we'll take this with a grain of salt for the time being, while waiting for a formal announcement from Nokia, provided that it will indeed make one," Softpedia says.
But it's not just the Nokia Lumia 920's eye-catching design and array of colors that makes it such a beloved phone. Its software and hardware are nothing to ignore either, and that's why we're not surprised the Lumia 920's PureView 2.0 technology already has the Samsung Galaxy S4 falling behind on its video stabilization before even being released.
The Nokia Lumia 920 has come with PureView 2.0 since first being released. The system mechanism optimally stabilizes both videos and photos taken under low light, without the use of a flash.
WP7Forum.ru, a Russian site, was somehow able to get its hands on a Samsung Galaxy S4 and connected it and a Nokia Lumia 920 to a toy car, which was tugged around a room while both devices were recording video.
The results were obvious.
"[S]haky hands should choose Nokia's Lumia 920 as the optical image stabilization, or OIS, feature really shines through in the test," Gotta Be Mobile says in its analysis of the video challenge between the Lumia 920 and Galaxy S4.
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