Best Buy is taking pre-orders for both the Nokia Lumia 920 and HTC 8X smartphones and is offering them at $149.99 and $99.99, respectively.

Those who are seeking to obtain a Nokia Lumia 920 on AT&T should be ready to pay $149.99 on a two-year contract, which is not a bad price for such a powerful device. The Lumia 920 is available in red, white, black, yellow, and cyan. On the other hand, the HTC 8X sports a $99.99 price tag and can be pre-ordered in purple.

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Buyers can pre-order both handsets from Best Buy and AT&T right away if they so wish. Consumers waiting for the Verizon version of the Lumia 920 will be subjected to a six-month wait since Nokia and AT&T have a deal, which makes the smartphone exclusive to the carrier. It is not certain how this would affect Nokia, time will tell when the six-month period is over and the sales report is released.

Both the Nokia Lumia 920 and HTC 8X are powered by Windows Phone 8, the specifications are as follows:

Nokia Lumia 920:

• 8.7-megapixel front-facing PureView camera
• 4.5-inch display
• 1.5GHz dual-core processor
• 1GB RAM
• 32GB storage
• Wireless charging
• NFC
• Wi-Fi®: IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n
• 4G LTE

HTC 8X:

• 8-megapixel front-facing camera
• 4.3-inch display
• 1.5GHz dual-core processor
• 1GB RAM
• 8GB
• MicroSD
• NFC
• Wi-Fi®: IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n

On paper, the Nokia Lumia 920 appears to be the better handset, but specifications alone do not determine a device's fortunes. For Nokia to stay alive, the Lumia 920 will have to succeed where the Lumia 900 failed, and that won't be an easy task to accomplish.

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