The next big Nokia Lumia phone is coming soon. At a press event in London this morning, Nokia officially announced the Nokia Lumia 925 after weeks of rumour, leaks and speculation. As expected, the phone is a compelling upgrade over the existing Lumia 920 flagship, offering a much thinner and lighter body, an improved camera and a new AMOLED display.
Lumia on a diet
The biggest flaw of the original Lumia 920 was its size and weight – at 10.7 millimetres thick and 185 grams, it felt noticeably bigger and heavier than pretty much any phone on the market. Even phones with much larger displays felt better than the 920 – the Galaxy S4 weighs 55 grams less and is nearly 2 millimetres thinner.
With the Lumia 925, Nokia have switched to an aluminium construction that is in line with other leading smartphones, at 8.5 mm thick and 139 grams. While you lose out on the bold colour options and wireless charging of the Lumia 920, it feels like a worthwhile exchange.
The best smartphone camera – again
The Lumia 920’s weight was partly made up for by its capable camera, with unmatched features like optical image stabilisation for sharper stills and videos, particularly in low light. The Lumia 925 continues that tradition with an 8.7 megapixel camera, yet sheds the bulk and adds more software features.
The new camera app is called Smart Cam, and includes a number of burst shot modes for finding the perfect photo. You can use Best Shot for automatically finding the best one of the bunch, Action Shot which composites a moving subject and Motion Focus to add motion blur to everything that’s not moving.
Hardware upgrades, in small measures
The rest of the Lumia 925’s hardware is pretty much at the top end of what Windows Phone is capable of at the moment – which is to say that it’s mostly unchanged from the Lumia 920. The display has been changed from LCD to AMOLED for improved battery life and deeper blacks, but remains at 4.5-inches and at a resolution of 1280 x 768. The phone also has the same hardware inside, with a dual-core 1.5 GHz processor, 1 GB of RAM and 16 GB of storage.
Best Windows Phone ever
There really isn’t any competition for the Lumia 925, at least in Windows Phone land. It’s simply the best-looking and most capable Windows Phone, and should enjoy strong retail success if it’s well marketed by Nokia. The Lumia 925 will be available in the UK in June.
Here at Mobile Fun, we’ll be stocking a range of Lumia 925 accessories, including those cool Lumia portable chargers we saw earlier this month and the wireless charging covers that take the place of the wireless charging that was integrated in the Lumia 920.
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