AT&T Nokia Lumia 920 gets slight battery and talk time downgrade

Lumia 920

When the Nokia Lumia 920 specifications hitting terminal month, the rather large battery (2000mAh) was touted equally one of the main features, resulting in supposed "all solar day apply". That's especially important for consumers on such a powerhouse of a phone since it has all of those bells and whistles on lath.

The AT&T version has recently been posted on Nokia'south site and information technology has some updated specifications from the global version, including some new battery times. The bad news is they accept been slightly marked down for the massive 4G network, about likely due to some carrier requirements resulting in some firmware changes in add-on to that super fast LTE network.

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Those changes have resulted in talk-fourth dimension going from x hours to 9 hours on AT&T, standby time dropping from 400 hours to 320 and music playback dwindling from 67 hours to 52 for the US branded Lumia 920. Nosotros suppose they're not huge drops, but they are drops nonetheless. We should also exit a little room here for fault—it's non uncommon for slight discrepancies to be posted on these sites earlier a device hits, so changes may even so be forthcoming.

It's well known that LTE volition utilise more than battery life than regular 3G (or "4G" for HSPA+) merely the Qualcomm S4 chipset should handle bombardment consumption a lot more finer than the current Nokia Lumia 900, which has older silicon onboard. Nonetheless, no matter how good the applied science gets, if you lot get a fatter pipe for information yous will consume more battery. Plus, if you lot're non on LTE in theory you'll have slightly better battery life.

Regarding possible network and firmware changes, we really have no thought on what drives that or what AT&T's requirements are (or even if that'due south a gene here). It'southward not uncommon though for carriers to do testing and asking changes that affect the radio performance, including higher rates of tower-pinging (who remembers hacking their AudioxVox PPC-6700 to go calls faster?).

In the terminate, we withal call up the Lumia 920 is a nice upgrade. When compared to the electric current Lumia 900, the 920 gets 2 hours more than of rated talk fourth dimension and 20 hours more of standby—all of that with NFC, a larger, more power thirsty display and a dual-cadre CPU. We'll accept that, give thanks you.

Update: We did forget to mention the Lumia 820 for AT&T. That too has had a slight downgrade likewise: