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By Hezythem on December 25, 2014 03:45 pm
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If a mobile operating system can go through a mid-life crisis, Windows Phone 8 might be there: Devices have been on the market since late last year, there's no major revision in sight (yet), and OEMs — mainly Nokia — are now at the point where they're ready to release another volley of hardware. So without a publicity boost from a new version of Windows Phone, that puts a lot of pressure on these new phones to be particularly good.
Hardware
The first thing you're confronted with upon obtaining one of these fancy BlackBerrys is the sheer bulk of the package they come in. Nearly the size of a shoe box, the matte black container has a high-quality soft-touch finish and a flap door held in place by magnets. It's evidently meant to be kept around after unboxing. Inside, there's even more blackness — the one color that pretty much never goes out of style — covering a velvety tray that houses the P‘9981 and its included dock.
Beyond the self-evident excess of its dimensions and materials, the box also clues you in to the fact that this is a Porsche-branded phone first, with the BlackBerry logo present as a sort of subtitle. The P‘9000 series is Porsche Design's subset of electronics products, currently populated by four LaCie external storage drives and the P'9981 smartphone. Why that pesky apostrophe has to figure in every product name,remains a mystery.
THE 928'S
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LOOK, MANY OTHERS WON'T
he right edge of the 928 has the classic Nokia Windows Phone button configuration: a volume rocker at top followed by a power button and a two-stage camera button (more on the camera in a bit). I've always loved the placement of the power button on these phones, but I'm not in love with the volume rocker — putting on the right makes it harder to hit mid-call, and it's just barely longer than the power button which can make them difficult to differentiate by feel alone.. On the top, there's a center-mounted Micro USB port flanked by a noise cancellation mic and a SIM tray (which, refreshingly, requires nothing more than a fingernail to pop open). At the very corner lies the 3.5mm headphone jack.
The back, though, is what sets this phone apart from the Lumia 920: You instantly notice the larger (much larger) xenon camera flash sitting just left of the lens. Another difference is the big loudspeaker grille toward the bottom, which is strategically placed on a slightly-curved area so that it isn't muffled when the phone is sitting face-up on a table.
The phone's display is 4.5 inches with a resolution of 1280 x 768, just like its Lumia 920 cousin, but the 928 switches from an LCD to an AMOLED — presumably to shave some thickness.
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