Nokia Lumia 925 Hands-On: This Is the Windows Phone You?ll Want

Nokia?s just unveiled the Lumia 925?and it's the Windows phone that you'll want. Gone is the all-plastic traditional Lumia, subsumed by a much more refined feeling metal-polycarbonate mix. This thing looks and feels great.

So, what?s it like? Well, if you take the Lumia 920, remove about 20 to 30 per cent of the weight, slap brushed metal sides on it and make it only marginally thicker than a svelte HTC One, you?ve just about got it.

The metal band antenna round the outside is punctuated with small black bars at the top and bottom corners, which will hopefully prevent any death grip issues, like the iPhone 4 suffered back in the day. The back is made of your now-standard quality-feeling polycarbonate that you know and love from Nokia, curved to fit the profile of a palm providing some great ergonomics. This thing feels great in the hand, just like the HTC One does with its curved backing.

Speaking of the back, turn the thing over and you?ve got the camera module and flash, which are just the same as the Lumia 920 before it, without the extra bulk that its predecessor came packing. On to the front, the screen itself is as vivid as previous Nokia efforts, with colours popping nicely and edges and text as sharp as ever.

Windows Phone is, well, Windows Phone, which means it?s about the same as any other high-end WP8 phone. No real lag to speak of, and entering apps was pretty rapid as you?d expect. Nokia?s bigging up the camera stuff, which we?ll go into more detail about later, but for what it?s worth, Nokia?s Smart Cameradoes what it says on the tin. Operating just like HTC?s Zoe, except with a way better name, it?s essentially burst fire with the ability to meld images into the perfect snapshot. Each frame is captured at 5MP, apparently ?something others can?t do? according to Nokia. That means you can eliminate people from the picture, or do the fancy thing and have action shots with multiple images of your target of choice flying through the air or something, all combined into an awesome composite image.

We?ll be giving the camera a good test, seeing as Nokia?s so proud of the thing, and update with sample shots as and when we can get them.

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