Nokia Lumia 625 launched in India for Rs. 19999

Nokia Lumia 625 specifications

4.7-inch (800 x 480 pixels) display at 201 ppi, Corning Gorilla Glass 2 protection
1.2 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8930 processor
Windows Phone 8 OS
5MP Auto Focus camera with LED flash, 1080p Full HD video recording
0.3MP (VGA) front-facing camera
9.2mm thick and weighs 159grams
512MB RAM, 8GB internal memory, expandable memory up to 64GB with microSD
3G HSPA+, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0 LE, GPS / aGPS,,A-GPS+GLONASS
2000 mAh battery

The Nokia Lumia 625 comes in orange, yellow, bright green, white and black colors and is priced
at Rs. 19,999. It comes with out-of-the-box entertainment package such as eBooks from
Flipkart and access to the Nokia Music Store to download music worth Rs. 16000 absolutely
free. The Your Movies app by Digitainment that offers 3000+ free movies (streaming and
download at 720p) worth Rs. 4,275 free for 3 months. Nokia has also announced that the Lumia
625 users free access (up to 10 GB of content for 3 months) to Ozone Wi-Fi zones across India
at more than 800 hangout zones including Café Coffee Day, McDonalds, and Subway among
others in these zones at no extra cost during the first three months.

Nokia Lumia 925 vs Lumia 920, Android flagships

Nokia has launched its new Lumia 925 flagship smartphone in India, an evolution of the Lumia 920 that arrived in the country in January. It has a few advantages over its predecessor like better camera and display quality, improved fit and finish of the body and a much-needed reduction in weight (compared to the bulk of Lumia 920).

While Lumia 925 may not be as big a change as Lumia 920 was to the Lumia 900, it certainly brings a few things to the table. Here are our first impressions of the device, giving you what you need to know about the new Lumia 925…

Design

The first thing to notice in the Lumia 925 is its metal casing. Only the rim around the handset is made of aluminium, while the back is made of polycarbonate.

This phone is much lighter at 139gram, compared to the 185gram of Lumia 920. The wireless charging feature is present in Lumia 925, but it requires an additional back cover, as compared to the in-built Q1 compatible plate of Lumia 920.

Overall, the phone feels much better in the hand than Lumia 920 without compromising on the build quality at all.

Display

Lumia 925 comes with an AMOLED screen with PureMotion HD+ and ClearBlack technologies. While Lumia 920 has the same screen technologies, it has to settle for an IPS display instead of an AMOLED one. Thus, Lumia 925 has the advantage of reproducing better colours and consuming less battery, while maintaining similar, if not the same, viewing angles.

Processor and software

Lumia 925 runs on a 1.5GHz dual-core processor and 1GB RAM under the hood, which it shares with its predecessor. Both the phones run on Windows Phone 8 and have the Amber update (it started rolling out for Lumia 920 in India in the third week of August 2013). Therefore, we don’t have much to explore in the Lumia 925 on the software side.

Camera

Nokia has altered the optical assembly in the camera of Lumia 925 in order to deliver more accurate colours and details in daylight images and better low-light photos as compared to 920 whose colour reproduction has been a bother.

Our short time with the phone did not give us much scope to see how well it works, but Nokia had a ‘dark room’ at the event, where we could check out its imaging capabilities in low-light areas. The phone captures a lot of detail in the dark, as is the case with Lumia 920, but determining which does a better job will take a full review and comparison.