Nokia Lumia 925 Review

Nokia has decided to keep there windows phone smartphones going on. After the huge succsess of the Lumia 920's Camera Nokia is ready for another smartphone. The Lumia 925, next addition to the Lumia series. Keeping the tradition going on this phone has a good build quality and excellent camera. What more does this smartphone has to offer lets find out in the review.

Design and Hardware:

                                     The phone is just a refreshed version of the Lumia 920. It is light weight, thin and portable. The phone has an aluminium rim around the body which also serves as antenna for mobile network.     The back of the phone is made of poly carbonate. The Volume Rocker, lock button and the camera key are located at right. microUSB port and 3.5 mm headphone jack on the top along with sim card tray.

Nokia Lumia 925

         It has a Dual-Core 1.5Ghz Krait processor, 16/32 GB storge along with 1 GB of Ram. The phone doesn't offers any microSD card slot, so you if you are out of storage you need to depend upon cloud services such as DropBox, Google Drive and Microsoft's own SkyDrive.

Dislpay:

             The Lumia 925 has a 4.5" display with a resolution of 786x1280 giving a pixel density of 322ppi. The display is an AMOLED capacitive touchscreen. Though AMOLED display have poor viewing angles, low brightness and poor color representation but still windows phone look great on AMOLED displays so it won't disappoint you.

Camera:

              The Lumia 925 has an 8 MP Camera with dual Led flash. It is the same PureView Camera found on the Lumia 920 but now it has a 6th Lens. The Camera has optical image stabilization and great low-light performance. We have a low light sample of the Nokia 925 camera comparing to the galaxy S4 camera.

Low Light Sample Shot

The outdoor performance of Nokia 925 is not ground breaking though but still it captures good quality images which will not disappoint you.

Software and Interface:

                                      The phone runs on Windows Phone 8. As all windows phone this phone looks and feels the same as a windows phone should. It has the traditional Home screen with live tiles which you can customize easily. The app drawer is still in a form of list which may cause problem when you have a lots of apps installed, but the search button eliminates this problem.

Nokia Lumia 925 Keyboard

The good point in the software is that Microsoft have installed some of its great productive applications on this phone which may be handy to many people.

Performance:

                      The phone has a 1.5Ghz Dual-Core processor which is enough for a windows based phone. The phone runs smoothly on day to day performance but sometimes we can see a bit lag while multitasking. The browser on the phone renders the page quickly and smoothly, pinching and zooming works perfect but sometimes you will see a bit lag in the browser though. Otherwise the Lumia 925 is a good performer in terms of performance. 

Pros: 

• Good build quality
• Excellent camera performance
• Smooth performance
• Decent Display

Cons:

• No SD card slot
• Poor call quality and loudspeaker performance
• Windows app ecosystem still falls behind android and iOS

Nokia Lumia 925

Final Thoughts:

                          If you want a phone with excellent camera performance and good specifications this is a phone to go with. If you are a power user then you may look somewhere else. At last this phone is decent and good looking smartphone which is capable of doing some great things. 

Rating: 7.5/10