Is your Nokia Lumia 920 haunted and moving on its own? Here's why.

In a fun from the forums thread, we have an interesting conversation about something even we've witnessed: the Nokia Lumia 920 slipping and sliding off of seemingly apartment surfaces, ofttimes crashing to the ground.

Forum fellow member Cheyenne Toll started a thread and even posted a video on his Facebook documenting the phenomenon (video after the intermission). The video starts with this 920 placed faced downwardly on his solid Dell laptop, firmly in the center and flat on a desk. Yet inside moments you can see the 920 spin around and then slowly begin to creep towards the corner.

The phone is non vibrating due to alerts and at that place is nothing obvious that is causing the movement. What will eventually happen, according to the author, is the Lumia 920 volition swan dive to the ground (almost always after he has left the room).

Assuming the Lumia 920 isn't suicidal, what could be the explanation?

Forum fellow member mparker offers up one that we agree with:

"This is simple physics. In your video (cheers for posting the link btw) the telephone is face up down, on a laptop. The screen on the L900 is a low-friction surface, and the plastic on those dells is also a low-friction plastic. This ways that absent some mechanical restraint, the phone volition slide at fairly depression angles. Between the foundation, table, and laptop there's enough tolerance stacking going on that the top of that Dell is probable to exist significantly tilted. Have you lot put a level on it to verify that it's as apartment as you lot think?

Here's another experiment for you: Put an ice cube on top of the Dell. See if information technology slides off on its own every bit it starts to melt. It'south the same principle."

Indeed, while it is far from obvious this nearly likely the reason why. The Lumia 920 does take a very low-friction screen and those curved edges certainly don't help either.

The only reason we observe this interesting is our Lumia 920, when placed screen down (even on the burrow) is decumbent to skirting off the edge of surfaces too, more and so than our other 14 Windows Phones that we've endemic. And going by comments in that thread, others likewise are experiencing the odd behavior. (For the tape, nosotros place the phone screen down because during our downtime, we don't desire the screen "lighting up" when a notification comes in—it's often distracting during a picture.)

So your best bet? Don't place the Lumia 920 screen down. Certain, the Gorilla Glass may protect information technology, merely evidently it gives the phone a listen of its own. Have a similar, funny story about your 920 taking a pratt fall? Permit us know beneath.

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