Nokia Lumia 925 Review

Good design and much improved camera, Lumia 925 is a Windows Phone in the right, although many features bundled apps on the platform is new.


From N9 to the first Lumia launch, Nokia smarthone always been seen as the beautiful design of the monolithic polycarbonate shell. However, Nokia's Windows Phone models start with the boring model upgrade only in size, but not much change many external changes.

Lumia 925 Windows Phone smartphone in Nokia's line of external refresh.

If the Lumia 800, 900 are rated for an operating system designs stub, launched last year, the 920 owners a lot of changes, especially camera. Between this year, the company unveiled the Lumia 925, model 920 when upgrading from continuing to bring good camera. However, design is the most recognizable in this product. Lumia 925 has surpassed the volume of the plastic shell boring in the last 2 years in the metal lines combined with subtle looks polycarbonates, more slender.

Before selling in Vietnam in August, Nokia has had a major upgrade to the software named Amber. This change has brought a more useful Lumia 925, to compete with rivals in the high-end Android entourage are covered with shelves.

Design

Lumia 925 owners slim design. 920 Inheriting, but the new model no longer seems to joskin with 10.7 mm thickness which decreased to 8.5 mm. However, with weight 139 grams, while holding hands, users will have no dress sense and vulnerable machines. Feelings may initially lose if used long. However, with the male clients have big hands, to 925 is not really "have".

Left edge smooth.


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The volume up button, power button and the right photograph.

In addition, the design lines of the machine is more refined thanks to a combination of aluminum frame and polycarbonate thin layer. But if you look closely, you can see the reassembling of aluminum and polycarbonate imperfect. Users can see the openings, flatness are not. However, with no screw design, Lumia 925 is worth plus the styling.

Around the Lumia 925 is a sturdy aluminum frame, 4.5 inch AMOLED screen in front, buttons, layout PureView camera up slightly convex. All this makes the line Lumia 925 looks outstanding and at the openings. Looking at the machine, the user will feel the improvement of equipment, this is one of the best smartphones of the year, picked off the Lumia familiar styling but still "matter" Nokia.

The back of the machine with camera, Carl Zeiss lens.

The camera is on the back center of the Lumia. Camera designed to be slightly convex to bring some small inconvenience. First rub over vulnerable machines. In addition, making the camera a little lower down, while holding the user easily clouded lens, which when taken to wipe fingerprints.

Dual flash of the camera located above. Speakerphone and the connected wireless charging back layout below. In fact, the rear speaker layout not ideal for play. For more complete aluminum frame lines, Nokia was forced to give up the sound system polycarbonates, which are vulnerable to computer sounds when placed on their backs.

The most chiseled in the aluminum frame of the Lumia 925 is above. Here, 3.5 mm headset jack, microUSB port, SIM tray juxtaposed with the mic hole.

Plastic frames and metal parts on the Lumia 925 is not a good harmony.

First use of metal materials for the Lumia, 925 will have a few problems with color uniformity. For example, the gray version, and color coordination between metal and polycarbonates are not the same.Similarly, the black or gray and have this phenomenon.

Screen
Nokia uses AMOLED panels for the Lumia 925 4.5 inch wide. Earlier, the Lumia 920 model uses IPS LCD screen, the transformation has reduced the thickness of the device.

The screen displays fine.

Unlike many other AMOLED screen on the phone, the Lumia 925 is a significantly improved thanks to better align the colors of Nokia. Air show better and not strictly for or push the blue contrasting sharply.However, if compared to the bright white color LCD, the Lumia 925 looks warmer and more yellow. In fact with the color on the test footage, photos or web browser to see the colors on the screen of 925 moderately bright and true.

In size 4.5 inch, WXGA resolution of 1280 x 768 pixels, though not up to Full HD, but hardly determine if the aliasing visible to the naked eye. Good pixel density AMOLED panels combine to make the Lumia 925 displaying small fonts sharper.

With these conditions in place with sunlight, Lumia 925 has the ability to look good. Most of this is common of many smartphones use AMOLED panels. It also customized automatic night mode or when in bright light environments.

Camera

Nokia has branded PureView camera on the Lumia 925 comes with Carl Zeiss lens. Earlier, the Lumia 920 is also said to be equipped with this technology, but do not be put on the official Nokia.

This is a product for better image quality, especially the ability to capture the night.

Lumia 925 has 8.7 megapixel sensor. Compared with the 920, the new camera's more advanced products. Nokia has used Carl Zeiss lenses 6 compared to 5 on the device ahead. This increases the likelihood of night photography.

In fact, like 920, this is one of the best camera phone night. The picture of the bright, some context moderate light, when taken with the 925 look like daytime. But noise in this picture pretty much.

The device supports Full-HD movie recording, the test showed good sound when recording while video images at much the same level of high-end smartphone.

Significant weaknesses in the Lumia 925 is the shutter speed. Cameras capture images of this product is not fast, especially in a low light environment or multiple custom user set. However, that does not bother, by the camera and the accompanying software is the perfect product.

Nokia Pro Camera - custom applications capture interesting.

Nokia has introduced the interesting shooting features. At Smart Camera, users can take pictures in a variety of genres. First select your best shots with the motion picture, the user can press the shoot and get the best possible picture. Meanwhile, with action shots, holding computer, users easily select a range of images of a subject moving in the background. Highlight features motion is also interesting that the phone automatically blurring around and bring clarity to the subject. In addition, the machine also allows for choosing a beautiful face or remove the redundant details in the image.

Visit the company's App Store, the new Amber update, users can install a variety of other photo apps.Nokia Pro Cam is one of the professional photography software for mobile. Like what the company unveiled the Lumia introduced in 1020, at the Cam Pro, users will adjust the public, except for light, white balance, ISO, shutter speed, speech ... in a circle as the professional DSLR.

Many imaging software is Nokia brings to 925 the Amber updates.


Also, Cinemagram, Hipstamatic for Windows Phone ... are provided free of charge, bring new experiences to people addicted to negative images.

Performance and Features

Lumia 925 runs on Windows Phone 8 platform can hardly complain about a lot smoother. It uses a dual-core Qualcomm processor, running at 1.5 GHz Snapdragon S4, 1GB RAM. Hardware is not high if compared with the smartphone "crisis" today, but the machine run faster, even game graphics applications.

This powerful smartphone than other Windows Phone.

Whatever brought many good software like Nokia Maps, taking pictures, but this model is still a gap compared to iOS apps or Android. Many applications of Google, Instagram, Dropbox has not been sold or traded.

Games, apps on Windows Phone is quite expensive, if compared with the price of Android or iOS software. Many utilities have cost a hundred thousand, while small software to 50,000.

Application on your computer is not much and quite expensive to buy.

Nokia announced on air batteries with a capacity of 2,000 mAh, which is mounted inside and can not be disassembled. Using the usual features that, Lumia 925 running for about a day before recharging, if frequently online, the faster shooting.

Using aluminum frames, but air quality, good call on. Speaker of the rear to reduce the sound when listening to music, mic and speaker remainder are reasonable layout and good quality.

Overall Assessment

Before Lumia 1020 on the market, the Lumia 925 is the best Windows Phone. Microsoft and Nokia will need to do more to keep competitors on software and utilities, but the Lumia 925 shows that Nokia's efforts in bringing to more applications, especially the camera.

Lumia 925 is the best smartphone to take pictures and use.

Would be difficult to compare with the Galaxy S4, iPhone 5 or HTC One, because the phone has not reached perfection in the application, but some of the hardware is not inferior. The $ 11 million in Vietnam is good if compared to its competitors, thus, this model is worth buying.

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