From James's piece, a few quotes of interest:
Several things about the Lumia 920 appealed to me, firstly the great camera, then the large 32GB internal storage, the range of Nokia specific apps and then lastly the fact I could get one in yellow or white. I’ve been using the HTC 8X for several months now and it misses out on most of those points (apart from the camera with a bit of work). As I mentioned in my conclusion to Windows Phone Experiment I think my ideal device is the Nokia Lumia 920.
A few quirks with the Lumia 920 might prove sticking points for me though. The Lumia 920 has a resolution of 1280*768 pixels, which on paper sounds like a good thing, although when you compare the screen real estate to a 720p device with a resolution of 1280*720 pixels the difference becomes apparent. You basically get more vertical space on a 720p device in portrait orientation. This only really becomes a problem browsing the web and setting up your homescreen.
Interesting, a case where more pixels is not necessarily better? Though I'm not sure what James means about it being a problem in Web on the 920...
The buttons on my HTC 8X have always been a bit annoying, pressing them is fiddly and often requires a few attempts. When I first tried out the Lumia 920 I was impressed with button placement and how tactile they were. I really like the Nokia Lumia button placement and now that I’m used to it I wish the HTC 8X had a power button in a different place.
Yes, agreed, when oh when will HTC realise that a power button on the top makes very little sense - why make things harder for the user 50 times a day?
Onto the camera part of my time with the Lumia 920. Yes the camera is great, but out of the box and using standard settings you may have a few problems. Firstly Windows Phone devices have a physical camera shutter button. Don’t ever use it, I repeat don’t ever use it! The shutter buttons all induce so slight movement in the phones. This ends to slight blur in some photos, you’d expect the OIS (optical image stabilisation) preset in the Lumia 920 to negate this problem, it doesn’t. Switch to touch focus mode and remove flash assist as well. This will mean you tap the screen to focus and capture an image.
Very interesting again. Using a shutter button does indeed require some experience to use smoothly, I'll grant, though the OIS should indeed negate any user shake. Having said that, I often do use the touch-focus-shoot method now, too. Removing LED focus assist is slightly controversial, though I guess in most light conditions this shouldn't be necessary anyway.
I'd love to hear your comments on whether any of these Lumia camera tips from James help improve the 920's photos on your device, etc.
You can read the full article here.