Just last month, Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer put on notice that she wanted Yahoo employees to get rid of their BlackBerry handsets that they are using for work. It was even reported that the Yahoo CEO was planning to every Yahoo employee a new iPhone or an Android smartphone. Little did we know that Ms. Mayer will actually push through with her plans and is now actually putting into motion its “Yahoo! Smart Phone, Smart Fun!” program.
According to the memo, the rationale behind the move is for Yahoo employees to use the same devices that Yahoo users make use of so that these said employees can think and work just like Yahoo users do and we quote “We’d like our employees to have devices similar to our users, so we can think and work as the majority of our users do.”
With this program, Yahoo employees get to choose from a list of handsets which include the recently-announced Nokia Lumia 920. The list also includes the iPhone5, Samsung Galaxy S III, HTC EVO 4G LTE and the HTC One X. Not only that, Yahoo will also shoulder the data and phone bills of its employees. According to Ms. Mayer, the estimated $2 million cost that this program will cost is a pittance because productivity could improve with every Yahoo employee using the same platform.
As for including the Nokia Lumia 920 to the list, this is a good choice because the handset is the current flagship device of the Finnish smartphone manufacturer and it brings an impressive specs sheet to the table. Announced a couple of weeks ago and expected to hit the shelves by Q4, the Nokia Lumia 920 is the successor of the Nokia Lumia 900 4G. The handset takes much of its design inspiration from its predecessor and the only glaring difference between the two at first glance is the user interface of their respective operating systems.
In terms of aesthetics however, the Nokia Lumia 920 is bulkier and heftier than its predecessor with its measurements of 130.3 x 70.8 x 10.7 mm and it tips the scales at a rather hefty 185 grams. It does exhibit that premium feel and solid build quality that we have come to associate with the flagship handsets of Nokia in the past.
The Nokia Lumia 920 is a beauty on the outside but an absolute beast on the inside. It packs a QualComm MSM8960 SnapDragon chipset in its internals and this SoC comes with a dual-core 1.5 GHz Krait processor and 1GB of RAM in tow. The handset has 32GB of onboard storage but ad to say, there is no option to have this expanded for that matter. Its display on the other hand is a PureMotion HD+ IPS TFT panel measuring 4.5 inches diagonally and packs a resolution of 1280 x 768 pixels. Its camera department on the other hand features a rear 8MP shooter and a front 1.3MP snapper.
