The iPhone Fan's view of the Lumia 920

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What happens when you had an iPhone fan the Lumia 920? TechHive's Lex Friedman has decided to find out. With Microsoft loaning him a review until of Nokia's PureView Windows Phone, Friedman has put his main SIM into the Lumia 920 and placed his iPhone 5 in the bottom drawer (only to be pulled out when he needs it to write up an iAccessory review). After one week, Friedman is surprised how much he is enjoying the platform.

I already had some preconceptions about how it would go. I expected to like a lot of what the phone could do, miss some of my favorite iOS apps, and wish I could build an amalgam of the two operating systems that could run all my favorite apps.

A week in, my prediction feels spot on, with one significant caveat: I like more things about the Lumia 920 than I expected, and I like them a lot more than I expected...

I love it. I love the ridiculously huge screen. It’s big, bright, and crystal clear, and having more space on a phone’s screen works great. Yes, it’s bulkier in my pocket, and yes I sometimes need to work a little harder to move my hand from one corner of the screen to the other. But it’s worth it.

Nokia Lumia 920

It's a great read, as Friedman touches on the live tiles, the Windows Design language in the interface, the lock screen, and some thoughts on the apps available to Windows Phone users.

He's got three weeks left, and I'll be watching his progress to see how he gets on, but to catch up on his first week, head on over to TechHive.

Source / Credit: Lex Friedman (TechHive)