Thanks, appreciate the info! Just what I was hoping the answers were, going to have to make the trek to an AT&T store and check one of these out soon!

So far there is no official Sirius XM app for the Windows Phone, however I found a WP7 app in the app-store (FREE) on my Lumia 920 that claims to be able to connect to your Sirius subsciption although as I don't have an account I cannot test it.  The app is called "Sat RAD".

I also found one hardcore Sirius fan who uses the "internet sharing" on the Lumia 920 to connect his iPhone 4s to Sirius.  Kind of convoluted but my inner geek respects the ingenuity! 

I will see if any of my family are using Sirius and if so, try their account with that free app on my Lumia.  I will let you know what I find out.

Some additional info Leo.

You can change the lockscreen picture, change which app displays "detailed" info, add apps that display minimal info etc.  Searching and Camera functions can also be added straight from the lockscreen.  You can also use voice-commands (if you enable them) from the lockscreen to listen to incoming text messages as well as respond to them using voice.  There is a tutorial on youtube showing how that is done (can't find it at the moment or I would have linked it).

EDIT:  Found it.  The video is for the Lumia 800 but it works the same on a 920:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eidHRMmUS0Y

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I want it now, wahhh, wahhhh, wahhhhh.  

Alright! Alright!

Nokia Lumia 920 Gassy Pirate Edition

Thanks, seems pretty customizable. Will take a look at that video now.

i've found a buyer for my Bose headphones so i'm going to get one these phones within the next day or so. i ordered some headphones for it today and they should be here friday. i read an article online somewhere that stated Windows Phone 8 devices can be synced using itunes. that seems pretty odd to me but i'll see for myself. if it can't be done, i guess i'll be sitting for awhile entering all my contacts and such. at&t says their transfer app will do it, also. i may have to give that a shot, too.

MadDeez,

The Lumia has a built-in "Transfer my Data" app which should take care of your contacts etc.  I didn't use it however, as instead I opted to try the NFC (near field communications) aspect of the 920 and because my wife and I have some contacts the same I just held the the two lumia's back to back and "beamed" the contacts etc. from one phone to the other.  Very cool indeed! 

Here are some articles to help when moving from an iPhone to Windows Phone 8:

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/how-to/wp8/start/moving-from-iphone-to-windows-phone

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/how-to/wp8/music/copy-my-itunes-music-to-my-phone

Thanks!

Cell phones are the bane of society.

But they do make for an interesting read. I'm seeing the techy side of it. I'm imagining myself not home...somewhere out in the world where all I can see is blue sky with a cool breeze. I find a big rock and with java in one hand, back in the day the java would have been an illegal nonviolent activity, sit down with my 920 in the other hand. Then I play. What do I want my house to do before I get home. Hmmm......maybe I'll tell it to activate the robot vacuum cleaner and have it clean up the mess I forgot to clean up before I left or........see where I'm going with this. Eventually I want to control a workstation through my laptop. Using a phone such as the 920 to sync with my laptop and start something at home before I get there. Maybe I'll have it run a system diagnostic or some such. Yeah........when the time comes I'm gonna have so much fun.

i'm leaving in a few to get one of these rascals. white or red, which do i choose? hmmmmm.

At first when it was revealed that if I wanted a Lumia up here in Canada I'd have to be ok with the matte black variety I wasn't too thrilled.  After a few weeks of use I am convinced other than the cyan (the other matte finish colour) it was the right choice.  The black means that the screen and the phone look seamless.  The matte finish means less attraction of dust/lint and fingerprints. 

I guess in this one case my cellphone carrier was looking out for me!   hehe

Bookmark.  Thx.

The one I looked at in the Telstra store was white and looked nice enough, but I'd prefer the black one myself... though maybe that's cos it suits my mood better.

Apparently, only the white one is available here in oz for now, but that won't matter to me as I'm not yet ready to buy anyhow.. need to accrue the necesary funds.

Monk's Nokia Lumia 920 mini-review #2

Finishing out the 3rd week of consistent use with this device I have the following thoughts:

The screen is gorgeous.  I have owned a myriad of smartphones to date (various models of the iPhone, several Samsung and Sony droid devices, and windows-mobile devices of the past) and I can't say enough about the screen on the 920.  It is brilliant even in direct sunlight, never ever lags or hitches, has probably the smoothest/clearest pinch-to-zoom and scrolling in browsing I have experienced to date and just always feels "fluid" (the inertia of the screen just feels right if you know what I mean).  If there is a complaint about this screen I might have to say that it is almost "too bright" in low light conditions as trying to be secretive about what you're doing on the Lumia 920 when other people are around can sometimes be a chore! 

The OS is lean and mean.  Windows Phone 8 while a lot more "locked down" than android (less locked down than iOS of course) is the porsche of mobile OSes at the moment.  It is smooth, always.  It is intuitive, beautiful to look at and so easy to use.  Customization options are lacking at the moment but I don't doubt MS will continue to build on this little gem of an OS they have here.  Having said that, the lacking in customization is less of an issue and more a matter of preference as anyone even remotely familiar with android will miss the opportunity to really "make the phone UI your own".  Of course you can resize tiles and choose which tiles to display etc. but that goes more to the usability and intuitiveness (if that's a word..hehe) of the device rather than to personalization of the OS.  One can pretty much turn anything on the device into a live tile including individual web pages, contacts etc. which again drives the point home about Microsoft's focus on "usability" over all.  With android I always felt like I was spending hours playing with my phone in order to "set it up" (there seemed to be endless options and settings etc.), whereas with windows phone 8 I feel more like the time I'm spending with my phone is simply in "using" the device to do things and unlike in iOS where I would click into this or that app almost as if to "find things to do" the live-tiles really do save time and help to direct focus when using your device.

The battery life is standard (what could/should be expected from a modern superphone).  What I mean by this is, that I can easily get through the entire day with fairly heavy use of the device (ie. making calls, watching videos + listening to music, texting up a storm and emailing like mad).  With NFC (near field communication), bluetooth, wifi and background gps services (like those used by the Nokia Drive app) turned off I can easily get 2-3 days of battery life out of the device with a more moderate amount of use.

Cloud and social integration.  This phone cannot be beaten on that front.  The Lumia 920 is easily the most socially integrated phone on the market today.  The "people" tile by default (this can be modified to personal taste) collects all of your contacts from sim-card, facebook, twitter, linkedIn, hotmail etc. into one location.  Swiping left or right (which can be done in any windows phone app) gives you updates from facebook/twitter etc., news feeds, photo-streams and all of your contact's contact info.  There is a new ROOMS feature as well which allows you to create say a "family room" (group with all family members in a home).  This creates almost a family-only-facebook setup where everyone in that "room" is part of a group-chat, group-calendar, group-photostream, and group-notes/lists.  Very handy feature and even if not everyone in the "family room" has a windows-phone the other members can still share the calendar, lists and photos they will just receive texts though instead of being part of the messenger group-chat.  The cloud-integration (SKYDRIVE) is brilliant.  Photos, documents, calendars and notes are easily and seamlessly available to any/all devices via SkyDrive (on which you have 7GB of free storage) as well as phone backups etc.  Microsoft's Office on Windows Phone 8 takes full advantage of SkyDrive integration and makes moving from desktop, notebook to the phone in the car or on a plane a completely painless affair.  You can also quite easily (even from the phone) set up shared areas within your SkyDrive to give access and permissions to certain people or even have some areas deemed completely open for PUBLIC view.

The camera so pure.  The Lumia 920's camera really is pureview technology.  While some have complained that daylight photos seem "too soft" / overexposed (Nokia has stated they will release a software update to address this "issue") this camera really shines in situations where I (and I'm sure many others) are most likely to use their phone as a camera which is in low-light situations.  During the day I am still more likely to use my SLR camera if I know I'm going to take picuters but who carries around an SLR at night?    Nothing out there today can touch the low-light picture quality of the Lumia 920's camera thanks to Nokia's hardware optical image stabilization tech built into the Carl Zeiss lens.  The add-on software "lenses" provided for free by Nokia also add a nice touch and I can atest to the fact that all of them (Smartshoot - takes mutiple shots so you can choose the one where everyone is smiling,  Cinemagraph -  allows for the creation of cute animated .GIF's on the fly and Panorama - self-explanatory......work as advertised).  The phone also comes with Nokia's "Creative Studio" app which allows for some rudementary photo editing.  While this app "Nokia City Lens" doesn't really fit into the camera section of any "review" I do have to touch on it briefly.  It is Nokia's "augmented reality" app in which you simply choose what kinds of points-of-interest you'd like the phone to display, point the phone at the world around you and it will populate the screen with points of interest information nearby.  Selecting one, then gives you standard contact info as well as directions and you can use Nokia's turn-by-turn free navigation system to then take you there.  Back to photos for just a minute.......I already touched on a new free Nokia app on page 1 of this thread called "Photo Beamer" and just to reiterate, it is the absolute easiest way to show/share a photo or photos with family/friends.  Find an internet-enabled screen nearby, navigate to www.photobeamer.com on said screen (ie. laptop, other phone, internet-enabled TV), now scan the QR code into your Lumia 920 and voila swipe left-right to navigate your photos now displaying on the other screen.  Should your friend/family member want a copy of that picture just have them right-click and "save as".   Simple as that.    Of course with NFC you can also just "tap'n share" any photo or contact with any other NFC-enabled device.  Also, not to forget the video camera.  Thanks to the aforementioned "hardware optical image stabaliztion" built into this phone one can finally produce "shake-free" HD video even in extreme low-light conditions.  Suffice it to say.....the camera on this phone is one of its hallmark features.

There is so much more I could say about this phone but I've only had it for 3 weeks.  I'll check in with another review around the 6-8 week mark.

EDIT:  To add some stuff about the video camera in the camera section.