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"Nokia Lumia 925\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Sleeker Lumia\nThanks to its aluminum exterior, the Lumia 925 is perhaps the most sophisticated looking of Nokia's current smartphones. It has a 4.5-inch OLED display and carries the company's PureView label, meaning the camera sports advanced imaging technology.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCovers\nBack covers for the Lumia 925 come in different colors and incorporate wireless charging, which isn't built into the device itself.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBackside\nLumia 925's back side is mostly made out of polycarbonate.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSide View\nLumia 925 from the side.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBrowser\nNokia Lumia 925 showing your favorite website.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLONDON \u2014 The Lumia 925 is another notch on the photographic bedpost of Nokia\u2019s burgeoning cameraphone arsenal. The first in its flagship metal range, the company cites a \"materials-based design approach,\" and it certainly feels sturdy and comfy in hand while being noticeably lighter and slimmer than its Lumia siblings. \nThe new design incorporates a slim matte-finish aluminium band running around its edge that divides the polycarbonate rear from the sculpted edge-to-edge Gorilla Glass screen. It not only looks good but acts as the 925\u2019s antenna too. It\u2019s a positive step away from the usual Lumia design and at only 0.33 inch thin and 4.9 ounces (that\u2019s 1.6 ounces lighter than the Lumia 920) conspires to make the 925 a phone you\u2019ll want to hold and stroke while making the older Lumias look almost clunky by comparison.\nInternally it\u2019s Lumia business as usual despite the 925\u2019s lesser dimensions and weight. It runs the same dual-core 1.5GHz processor with 1GB of RAM and up to 16GB of non-expandable storage (although Nokia said Vodafone would be offering an exclusive deal for a 32GB version in the U.K., Germany, Spain and Italy).\nAvailable in three \"colours\" \u2014 black, white and grey and various two-tone combinations thereof, the 925 has a serious but sophisticated look and feel that I like more than the hallmark primary colors of the existing Lumia line. \nThe Lumia 925 lacks the 920's integrated Qi wireless charging, but you can get it back \u2014 along with those bright colors \u2014 with an accessory. To wireless charge, you\u2019ll need to buy a snap-on cover that acts and looks like any typical phone case and comes in the full gamut of Lumia colours \u2014 black, red, white and a particularly punchy yellow.\nScreen Idol\nAnother change from the existing Lumia range but following on from the announcement of last week\u2019s 928 is the new 4.5-inch OLED display delivering 1,280 x 768 pixels. It\u2019s still peddling the ClearBlack technology that suitably blackens blacks and by contrast helps colours to pop, and in our test model the Windows Live Tiles were clear and sharply defined, though the underground bunker location didn\u2019t give us a chance to test it in direct sunlight where OLED can suffer over IPS displays. A nice touch is the ability to incrementally tailor color saturation and vibrancy for the screen as a whole to set it just how you like it.\nSmart Camera\nTypical to the Lumia range, the 925\u2019s fanfare parade is for its camera. Sporting the same 8.7-megapixel sensor from its previous models, Nokia promises us it\u2019s made huge improvements to the camera lens and software algorithms that make it the \"most advanced lens technology\" available.\nImportantly, the 925's camera has the PureView label, and its Carl Zeiss lens has a new addition \u2014 a new lens. The lens has six elements (one glass, five plastic) compared to the iPhone\u2019s five, which Nokia claims has significantly improved its low-light credentials. Strangely there\u2019s no xenon flash as added to last week\u2019s 928, so we have to settle with the dual LED instead, but in the \u2018photos in the dark\u2019 test room it proved to be as adept as we\u2019d hoped for and a better low-light performer than most smartphone cams.\nIt\u2019s not just in the hardware the Nokia has made improvements to its camera. Smart Camera is a new app that hosts the camera\u2019s myriad functionality, making it super easy and quick to shoot and edit your pics all from one place. Shooting 10 frames each time you click, you\u2019re then presented with five editing modes including Best Shot, Action Shot, Motion Blur, Change Faces and Fade Effect. \nI have to say, it\u2019s startlingly easy to use and in less than a minute I was chopping and changing in all sorts of ways, from fading colors out to blurring backgrounds with two swipes and a tap of the screen. The Fade Effect is another particularly nice touch that lets you create some strange ghosting effects that could have kept me occupied for hours.\nGranted, even with two errant skateboarders showing off, the launch event isn\u2019t the best place to test this tech to the max, but I was left itching to have another go in \"real world\" conditions. Punchy and clear on the new OLED screen, the 925 may now have set the benchmark for smartphone camera photography and editing. \nBest of the Rest\nInternally, the 925 differs little from the 920 (and the 928 from what we\u2019ve seen) and as such performance is almost identical, which is not a bad thing. Standard web browsing was fine with pages loading quickly and cleanly, while email took a little longer but that was mostly down to the pedestrian Wi-Fi I was using. \nIn truth, the real differentiators over the 920 and 928 are in design and the camera upgrades. Design- and looks-wise, the 925 has left the existing Lumias lagging way behind, boosted by the hefty weight loss and the inclusion of that subtle metal styling. Yes, the Smart Camera app is a real boon to budding snappers, but Nokia said it will be offered as a free firmware upgrade to the entire Lumia range over the course of the summer under the name \"Amber update,\" which leaves the design element as the main draw.\nThe 925 undoubtedly sings quality from every aspect of its design and makes the very most of Windows Phone. But is it a big enough step forwards to tempt us away from iOS or Android, or to upgrade from the 920? I\u2019m not so sure. \nThe Nokia Lumia 925 starts shipping in June 2013 with a retail price of \u20AC469 (about $600).\nImages by Duncan Madden, Mashable"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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