![]() ![]() Windows Phone 8's customizable home screen and fast Internet Explorer 10 browser go a long way towards legitimizing the Lumia 920 as a heavy-duty smartphone. About the only day-to-day hardware quirk is a somewhat slippery design HTC's soft-touch Windows Phone 8X is more reassuring.Īnd yet, software remains a mixed bag. Autofocus sharpness quirks are a real issue without a software fix, but the Lumia 920 can take photos in low light that would leave an iPhone 5 struggling. Why can't other hardware makers do that? The wireless charging is equally welcome if you happen to have a Qi-friendly pad there's nothing quite like plunking your phone down after a long day without having to plug in. It's entirely possible to take a call or post a tweet with winter gloves on. It's thick and heavy, to be sure, but that high-sensitivity touchscreen is incredibly handy in chilly weather. Hardware-wise? Nokia's design mostly comes up aces. ![]() With that in mind, I used it as my main phone for a few weeks to see whether a handful of truly unique hardware extras, and the leap to Windows Phone 8, make it a more viable device than predecessors like the Lumia 900 - not necessarily for a technology news editor, but certainly for anyone trying to call, chat and navigate through a cold season. It acknowledges that life doesn't always happen in warm, brightly-lit spaces. The Lumia 920 can be a resolutely pragmatic phone. If you're interested in checking out the company's web-based offerings, click here those looking for the iPad app can visit this link. Perhaps even a subscription model would work, and it'd still be far cheaper than Rosetta Stone. It's a perfect layout for future titles, and I can only hope that the company expands the series for those looking to tackle more advanced lessons. In fact, the only major gripe we had was that the book eventually ends. ![]() You'll also find accompanying material on the web and on iPhone, and these tools have speech recognition so you can practice your pronunciation and get a real time score on your vocabulary. The book itself is extraordinarily well thought-out, with lessons that are both easy and enjoyable to cruise through. But if you're looking for the basics, it's a fantastic option. To date, the $8.99 guide, which runs some 77 pages, is the company's only one on the iPad. Recently, my wife and I tried a new Spanish language learning tool from Babbel. The internet itself just feels like a far superior tool for teaching than just about any book, and a world where children are given access to it at an early age is one I look forward to living in. I've felt for some time now that tablets could well be the catalyst for the next major revolution in education. Billy Steele Babbel iPad Spanish Learning book While I've had a good run with this hoss, it's just about come to and end now that the price has dropped on similar printers, and now that WiFi is a standard option. Now, I'm doing so a few extra times a year. At the height of my grad school years I was switching out cartridges once a quarter. While this doesn't take a huge amount of time, it does consume a large amount of ink. Almost every time I use it I have to clean the print heads and nozzles to avoid streaks. Now that the R1800 has some years behind it, the wear and tear is beginning to show. In the beginning it provided amazing print quality at a level that was sometimes better than the local print shops, which would completely gouge me for the same work.īy subscribing, you are agreeing to Engadget's Terms and Privacy Policy. On occasion, though, I'll press it to do some heavy lifting on holiday cards and such - no more than two or three times a year. ![]() Since then, it's become strictly a proofing machine since I'm no longer producing class projects on a regular basis (thankfully). I picked up this monster back in '06, and leaned on it pretty hard for a good three years. As you might imagine, anything under Super B / A3 sizing is fair game, with printing all the way to the edge there as well. Like many printers these days, it can also print directly onto CDs so long as you can spare a solid 12 hours of drying time. In order to cut production costs in grad school, I invested $500 in the Epson Stylus Photo R1800, which is capable of borderless prints and can print 13 inches wide by however long I'd like, thanks to paper roll attachments. But, when you're proofing a 40-page style guide for a client, you tend to want easy access to the outputs. Sure, not everyone has a need for a 13 x 19 photo printer. And, on a slightly more nostalgic note, Billy delivers a eulogy of sorts for the Epson photo printer that got him through years of graphic design school. This week we've got Darren learning a little Spanish through Babbel and Jon, the man of many Canadian phones, testing the Lumia 920 on Rogers' LTE network. ![]()
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