Though closely related to AT&T's Lumia 920, Nokia has done an admirable job of differentiating the 928's hardware, for better or worse. It's safe, even staid. To some degree, it feels out of lockstep with Nokia's famed (and relatively consistent) industrial design. Then again, Espoo has been experimenting lately: Take the Lumia 620, for instance, which features a double-shot plastic case — two colors layered on top of one another — or the aluminum Lumia 925. In other words, it looks like lead designer Marko Ahtissari is keen to move beyond the classic rounded plastic shell first seen on the N9, and the 928 certainly shows it.
If anything, the 928 could be described as a grown-up Lumia 810 with just a little more time, effort, and TLC put into it. It's mostly squared-off with just a hint of curvature at the four corners; the back bulges slightly, making the phone more comfortable to hold and providing the optical illusion that it's slightly thinner than it actually is (10.1 millimeters, beefy by today's standards). The front of the phone is entirely flat and black; the back and sides come in your choice of glossy white or matte black.
I would've liked to have seen Nokia do a full range of snazzy colors for this phone, just as it did for the 920 and most of the other Windows Phones in its lineup, but I suspect this may have been a Verizon request: The 928 is a Verizon exclusive, and it's probably no coincidence that the 822 (which is also Verizon-only) comes in the same two color choices. It reminds me a little bit of Verizon's decision to slap its logo right on the Galaxy Note II's home button — there's nothing good about the design changes that Verizon very likely was involved in dictating here. It's a shame, because a bright red glossy shell would've helped counteract what is otherwise one of the more boring designs that Nokia has made in recent memory. Let's be clear: this phone looks and feels worse than the 920. Why?
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