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With thousands of options for smartphone in this holiday season, it seems somehow difficult for us to make a decision which phone to buy. Besides the usual offerings of iPhone and Android devices, a line of smart phones that run on Microsofts Windows Phone 8 is also offering this year. As reported by The Next Web, the Nokia Lumia 920 that runs Windows Phone 8 is sold out on Amazon, a popular online retail store in America. It seems that Nokia is on the way to make a grand comeback with the high-end Lumia 920. While Samsung is betting big on the success of the Galaxy Note 2 phablet to keep its Dominant position. So today I will show you all a full comparison between these two booming devices, in order to help you know better about the difference between Lumia 920 and Galaxy Note 2, so as to make a wise Christmas gift choice.
Dimensions
Galaxy Note 2: 151.1x80.5x9.4mm, 180g
Those with small hands will likely find it a little more difficult to hold in one hand than the average smartphone. But don�t be afraid, Galaxy Note 2 has an improved S-Pen support, which is revamped with rubber tip and enhanced touch response.
Lumia 920: 130.3x70.8x10.7mm, 185g, available in a wide range of vivid color options.
Winner: Draw

Display
Galaxy Note 2 features a massive 5.5 inch Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen display with 1280 x 720 pixel resolution and a pixel density of 267ppi., while On the other hand, Lumia 920 sports a 4.5 inch PureMotion HD+ IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen display with 1280 x 768 pixel resolution and a pixel density of 332ppi., better than the Galaxy Note 2.
Nokia�s ClearBlack tech boosts dark colours and contrasts on the phone while reducing glare in bright sunlight. Thanks to a fast refresh rate, Nokia�s PureMotion HD + delivers �better than HD� picture quality.
Winner: Lumia 920

See also: Compared to Apple iPhone 5 display, Nokia Lumia 920 is better

Storage
Galaxy Note 2 is in variants of 16, 32 and 64 GB of storage space. All three versions of the phone come with a slot for a microSD card that supports external memory expansion.
The Lumia 920 ships with 32 GB of internal memory on board. However, it does not support microSD cards for memory expansion.
Winner: Galaxy Note 2
Processor
Galaxy Note 2 is equipped with a Samsung Exynos 4412 Quad chipset supported by 2GB of RAM. And Lumia 920 is equipped with dual core 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor, supported by 1GB RAM.
Winner: Galaxy Note 2

Operating System
Samsung galaxy Note 2 runs on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, from calling to gaming to entertainment, multi-taking on the S Pen enabled device is a breeze. Nokia Lumia 920, runs on Windows phone 8, is not quite as advanced as Jelly Bean, but owns some pretty impressive specs including revamped tiles and social networking functionality. Though now Number of Windows Phone 8 apps is still lacking, but only time will tell how well Windows Phone 8 does in the market.
Winner: Draw

Camera
Galaxy Note 2 has an 8MP rear camera equipped with features like autofocus, LED flash, geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection and image stabilization and a 1.9MP front camera for video calling.
In comparison, Lumia 920 has a better 8.7MP rear camera with dual LED flash, autofocus and its camera boasts of the sophisticated PureView technology the company is best known for. PureView technology with Carl Zeiss lens, the phone can captures blur-free videos even if the cameras shaking or in low light. Thanks to its Optical Image Stabilisation.

Price
The AT&T Lumia 920s price tag is one of its most appealing features. AT&T will be charging $99 on-contract for the Lumia 920. That�s an aggressive price especially for a smartphone of this caliber.

In addition, the carrier will only be charging a mere $449 for the device off-contract, far less than the steep $600+ off-contract prices of the Galaxy Note 2. AT&T, Sprint, U.S. Cellular and Verizon are all charging $299.99 on-contract for the Galaxy Note 2.

Of course, both of them will have a lower price during the holiday season. Amazon is now offering the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 at a bargain price $250 along with a 2 year contract with AT&T, while at the same time Nokia Lumia 920 Price Cut to $49.99 from $99.99 for Black Friday 2012 Weekend in AT&T.

Conclusion:
When it comes to Galaxy Note 2, as it is based on the design of S3, it has some exclusive S software features including S Voice, Direct Call, Smart Stay, S Beam, Pop-Up Play and many more. It appears that Samsung Galaxy Note 2 is a better smartphone to buy.

But that is not to say that the Lumia 920 is not something worth buying. At the same time, Lumia 920 being an innovative smartphone has groundbreaking features such as wireless charging, glove-friendly touchscreen display and more.

If you are too concerned about the size of the device, love to use smartphone as a high-end camera and prefer Microsoft�s functionality, Nokia Lumia 920 is the obvious choice. Don�t forget, its build quality is premium too, and that�s not something we can say for Samsung.

If you have an Android smartphone, I am sure that apart from making phone calls, you will also use the phone to listen to music, play videos, takes photos or even creating a lot more documents on the go, and all your important data is very important that you must be stored on your PC. Sometimes, you have downloaded a lot of movies on the computer but want to enjoy them on your smartphone. So you have to transfer your files Between Your PC and Android Phone. There are a couple of different methods available to you for transferring files from your computer to your Android smartphone, and here I will show you how to achieve it.
1. Using a USB cable
The simplest way to transfer a file between your pc and phone is using a USB cable. Most phones already come with a compatible cable so you dont have to buy it. Here is the how to tutorial.

• Use the USB cable that came with your phone to connect the phone to a USB port on your computer.
• You receive a notification that the USB is connected.
• Open the Notifications panel and touch USB connected.
• Touch Turn on USB storage in the screen that opens to confirm that you want to transfer files. When the phone is connected as USB storage, the screen indicates that USB storage is in use and you receive a notification. Drag-and-drop the desired file(s) to the drive.
• After done, in your phone�s notification window, tap Turn off USB storage.
• Unplug your phone and you�re all set. That�s all. 

2. Use Android Manager WiFi
Android Sync Manager WiFi is an easy-to-use free Android sync tool thats specially designed for mobile content management of Android handsets. With this app, you can easily synchronize, manage and back up mobile contents between handset and PC, such as contacts, messages, calendar, photos, video and music files, etc.
To start with, make sure that Android Sync Manager WiFi is installed on PC while Android Sync Manager Agent installed on the handset.

Note: To use Android Sync Manager WiFi, both of your Android handset and PC must be connected to the same WiFi access point.

3. Use WiFi File Explorer
WiFi File Explorer uses your Android devices Wi-Fi connection to join your wireless network, then creates a little Web server on your network that lets you browse your files from any other computer on the network. So you just go to your PC, type the IP address and port number the app gives you, such as 192.168.1.77:8000, and then youll see a list of your phones files and folders in your browser window.
In addition to just copying files, you can stream music and video from your device. The pro version, which costs less than two bucks, adds the ability to create new directories on your phone, download multiple files from the device simultaneously, download whole directories, stream media playlists, backup your entire device, and more.

4. Cloud Storage app: DropBox
The most popular cloud storage provider, Dropbox, is a free service that lets you bring all your photos, docs, and videos anywhere. After you install Dropbox on your computer, any file you save to your Dropbox will automatically save to all your computers, your Android device, and even the Dropbox website! With the Dropbox app, you can take everything that matters to you on the go.
But this kind of service is not totally free. It only allows you to 2GB of storage space, everything above that wont be synchronized with the server. There are 10GB or even 100GB packages available, but they are not for free.

There are hundreds of applications capable of that in the market, just find the application that works best for you.