I myself have been a staunch Nokia supporter, and that's since my first cell phone. Tried Galaxy S 4G for about 6 months if so long and very quickly passed it on and went out for the N8 I now have. Going for the Lumia 925 upon release.
the Nokia Lumia 925 is equipped with Gorilla Glass 2 which makes the screen super tough. Customization on the start screen is ok, not bad at all. Call quality is ok. If you want to extend your battery, you can always switch to battery saver mode which reduces the screen brightness. The internet explorer 10 browser is fast, I do not think it is slow at all. The camera has optical image stabilization (OIS) and boast in low light photography. Speakers were loud enough. Got to love this phone! :D
I bought this phone 5 days back. For first two days phone was getting heated up little bit and battery was draining fast, but now it is working perfectly normal. Amazing quality and touch, I used Keys, Pens, Pencils etc on screen to test touch, it was perfect. Kudos to camera and apps like Pro cam, Cinema-graph, Smart Cam, Creative 360, etc. Audio quality in headphones, superb. Overall, best phone in class because NOKIA ROCKS!!
Thanks for listing the pros and cons as the speaker call quality is most important to me. I am a senior citizen with hearing problems but not enough for expensive hearing aids. I would like to see more reviews with this in mind on other Nokia devices, those that are smaller like the 620, sadly I cannot find locally to purchase. All of us do not want a HUGE cell phone to carry around. I do prefer Windows OS, I think it is much simpler for me to operate and game playing is not something I do. I do like to keep a running shopping list as well as appointments in my phone which is not something I can do on a basic phone. Too bad data is required on all smartphones as I do not text either. Maybe someday a great senior phone will be offered as there are many of us out here looking for the perfect one. Again, thank you for doing such great reviews on TH-cam, very helpful to me in choosing a new phone.
Two of the reason is that amoled have more saturated colours which make less realistic than IPS and at night you may feel unconfortable if you dont change the phone's bright
I still have the phone but the amount of bad things he says....the screen is Amoled which is better than LCD, the screen was readable in the sun , very readable.... I could compare it with S8.... never had an issue with the network...was fast due to OS , was a nice phone
The 925 is basically an aesthetic Upgrade of the 920, but if you like polycarbonate top-to-bottom more than outlines of metal, and you don't mind the extra weight and thickness of 920, then Lumia 920 will probably be a little cheaper than 925 for quite a while (although it has wireless charging and 925 doesn't have built-in, a newer model will be more expensive than the older one, and they are not really that different on the user experience)
I see a lot of people here who support this phone and windows phone in-general. If you like Nokia so much, why wouldn't you help this company overcome this very difficult economic period by actually buying these phones? If you do, I would like to see Nokia in the first three smartphone manufacturers very soon. Defending a phone in the comments doesn't help Nokia avoiding bankruptcy at all.
I still after nearly 3 yrs have the Nokia N8 with Symbian Belle, it's never given me any trouble, and i must admit am somewhat a Nokia fanboy, every phone (7 in total) since my first 5110 in 1999 has been Nokia (except one Sony Ericsson K750), and i am leaning toward trying WP8 for my next upgrade. Has anyone had any really good or bad experiences with either the 920 or 925?
this isn't the first windows Phone he's reviewed. so the OS hasn't changed but the hardware has. so within those 3 hrs. all he needed was the updated spects. and his own opinion.
Does it mean if a phone has many cores processor then it will become faster? or stable OS like iOS & WP8 don't need that specs. Ok. I think the answer is obvious, they still run smoothly anyway.
I wanted to buy the lumia 925 ,but then i heard some of the users have been complaining about the lumia 925, that really bothered me was about the over heating,lack of memory and the poor battery . Other than that i was really satisfy about the phone ,so can someone give me some advise about should i buy the lumia 925 ??
Your review is biased right from the beginning. You are more focussed on highlighting minor flaws. I am not saying that you should say that 925 is very good but its definitely a fair review. If you look at phonedog's review on 925, its a fair review.
Just because he uploaded the unboxing and then the review 8 hours later doesn't mean anything, they probably recorded this way before it was uploaded.... so yeah.
Being first in reviewing products nets them more viewers but yeah, obviously, you can't really tell people how good the product is if you barely used it yourself.
Are you kidding? I used to use WP all the fucking time all the way back to WP 3, and it sucked ass and annoyed the shit out of me? I went through 4-5 HTC windows phones in just a few years, and I just ship to the iPhone almost immediately, and I couldn't have been happier until I went over to Android and got my socks blown off by the sheer innovation and user-friendliness, after a while I got an HTC Titan and sold it off again because of how much WP 7 sucked, now I have an Xperia T.
that is true, also all the essential apps are there and that's what matters, even if there lacks a certain important app, there are other third party app that has already solved the problem. also android lacks superb apps like nokia smartshoot, here maps, here drive, xbox games & music. btw creative studio is 100,000 times better than shitty instagram.
Poor call quality? Really? Not buying that opinion based on what I've heard about this device from many other professional reviews. As for the speaker, it's very good...but can't compare with HTC One's front facing stereo speakers.
Can u jst help me out dude, im unable to set the wifi in my 925. I hv a secure ip wifi connection. So everytime i put d password and select done, it says unsuccessfull connection and i am not getting the ip config option like the other android or blackberry phones.
everyone kept telling me to give the lumia 925 a chance so i did. so far i cant log into my google account, my contacts linked to my account arent showing up, few apps that support google hangout features and having to scroll through a list of my apps is a chore. i immediately regret it
***** actually knowing how to use it is simple but the ui is very cumbersome and i have to scroll through all your apps if you dont want to pin it to the start menu
Grobee i have a lot of experience with Nokia, their devices has often supported their apps and services as far back as 2007. the problem i see with windows phone is there are a lot of abandoned apps that Microsoft has yet to do anything about, that's a bad thing because through out a series of updates those apps are no longer working and people are buying them only to not have them working anymore. furthermore just because its a windows phone device doesn't mean it should be anti Google, Nokias Linux devices never had this problem and its a shame they cant even bother themselves to work on it for their current line up
it has a lot of flaws. it gets VERY hot while doing things like Skyping(or just facebook) and i have a problem with the display . I haven't dropped it and nothing out of the ordinary has happened to it
Muyanzi Reid are you kidding me . .on monday they will replace it with another one.trust me it is not fake. I'm not stupid. Maybe it is only mine but I definitely wouldn't buy it again
windows phone users, how's the marketplace shoring up? I don't want to leave android's awesome app/game marketplace for a ghost town on windows/nokia...
I have WP 7 phone (Nokia Lumia 800) and one of my friends has Samsung Galaxy S4. I don't see anything special about it, maybe because I expected something better. Yes, it has a lot of applications, but WP lacks of games in the store, you can find every important application on both WP and Android. My phone has 1.5 GHz single core processor and doesn't lag. My friend's S4 lags sometimes in the menu.... I won't buy Android device, I don't want even to try any. WP menu is better cuz its simplier...
This guy doesn’t know that AMOLED screens are a lot better than LCD 😂😂😂 1.They are much more brighter than LCD’s 2.They have much more vibrant colors 3.They have the best viewing angles out there
i thought it boring because i have nokia c7 it works with Symbian 3 and it is boring device .. so thought the windows and Symbian are same ... now i prefer the Samsung the note 2 .. what you say ??
Have you ever thought that he maybe filmed the unboxing when he got the unit, at the beginning of this month, then spent some time with the phone, then made this review and uploaded both videos in the same day?!? People usually expect the full package when they search for a phone. You first see the unboxing video, then the actual review. It wouldn't make sense to release the unboxing vid a week ago, and just NOW post the review, don't you think? It looks nasty. It's better to release them both.
I myself have been a staunch Nokia supporter, and that's since my first cell phone. Tried Galaxy S 4G for about 6 months if so long and very quickly passed it on and went out for the N8 I now have. Going for the Lumia 925 upon release.
Watching old reviews like this become my new habit, cause it's preventing me buying new phone and be greatful with I have now.
Why dont you downgrade to Nokia 3310 instead, it was a 2000 flagship phone....
This is so far the best Nokia Lumia 925 phone review so far because its honest and also gives alot of information on its videos
the Nokia Lumia 925 is equipped with Gorilla Glass 2 which makes the screen super tough. Customization on the start screen is ok, not bad at all. Call quality is ok. If you want to extend your battery, you can always switch to battery saver mode which reduces the screen brightness. The internet explorer 10 browser is fast, I do not think it is slow at all. The camera has optical image stabilization (OIS) and boast in low light photography. Speakers were loud enough. Got to love this phone! :D
I bought this phone 5 days back. For first two days phone was getting heated up little bit and battery was draining fast, but now it is working perfectly normal. Amazing quality and touch, I used Keys, Pens, Pencils etc on screen to test touch, it was perfect. Kudos to camera and apps like Pro cam, Cinema-graph, Smart Cam, Creative 360, etc. Audio quality in headphones, superb. Overall, best phone in class because NOKIA ROCKS!!
Thanks for listing the pros and cons as the speaker call quality is most important to me. I am a senior citizen with hearing problems but not enough for expensive hearing aids. I would like to see more reviews with this in mind on other Nokia devices, those that are smaller like the 620, sadly I cannot find locally to purchase. All of us do not want a HUGE cell phone to carry around. I do prefer Windows OS, I think it is much simpler for me to operate and game playing is not something I do. I do like to keep a running shopping list as well as appointments in my phone which is not something I can do on a basic phone. Too bad data is required on all smartphones as I do not text either. Maybe someday a great senior phone will be offered as there are many of us out here looking for the perfect one.
Again, thank you for doing such great reviews on TH-cam, very helpful to me in choosing a new phone.
This guy should do another review when he learns that AMOLED screens are much better than LCD screens...
IPS is better than AMOLED or LCD.
Muyanzi Reid True
Adriano Patussi Ferreira true? .-.
Just asking, I don't really know :P
Two of the reason is that amoled have more saturated colours which make less realistic than IPS and at night you may feel unconfortable if you dont change the phone's bright
Muyanzi Reid True, and one of at least 4 reasons why I actually prefer the 920 over the 925. However this is still a very nice phone.
love how he dogs AMOLED yet it's the feature especially now
I didn't know Deanleysen did phone reviews. Good job!
I still have the phone but the amount of bad things he says....the screen is Amoled which is better than LCD, the screen was readable in the sun , very readable.... I could compare it with S8.... never had an issue with the network...was fast due to OS , was a nice phone
I hate his voice. his sarcastic tone. his im-hardly-impressed tone. Nothing against Russians.
C'mon, with every android phone you raise your praises over the roof, when it comes to anything else, you try finding flaws. Pathetic, do your job!
Dude, it's thinner than the S4 and is not boring, it's elegant.
The 925 is basically an aesthetic Upgrade of the 920, but if you like polycarbonate top-to-bottom more than outlines of metal, and you don't mind the extra weight and thickness of 920, then Lumia 920 will probably be a little cheaper than 925 for quite a while (although it has wireless charging and 925 doesn't have built-in, a newer model will be more expensive than the older one, and they are not really that different on the user experience)
Hey i'm thinkin to buy it....luv the device..!! Does it support all video format??
Forgot to mention double tap unlocking and fm radio in 925
I see a lot of people here who support this phone and windows phone in-general. If you like Nokia so much, why wouldn't you help this company overcome this very difficult economic period by actually buying these phones? If you do, I would like to see Nokia in the first three smartphone manufacturers very soon. Defending a phone in the comments doesn't help Nokia avoiding bankruptcy at all.
It's impossible to think Windows and Symbian are the same. Windows is very smooth and never lags.
I GOT MINE THE DAY IT WAS RELEASED!
I still after nearly 3 yrs have the Nokia N8 with Symbian Belle, it's never given me any trouble, and i must admit am somewhat a Nokia fanboy, every phone (7 in total) since my first 5110 in 1999 has been Nokia (except one Sony Ericsson K750), and i am leaning toward trying WP8 for my next upgrade.
Has anyone had any really good or bad experiences with either the 920 or 925?
Love the new contacts :D
Excellent smartphone.
Excellent smartphone, and I also have the Note 3. Windows Phone is finally worth a purchase!
this isn't the first windows Phone he's reviewed. so the OS hasn't changed but the hardware has. so within those 3 hrs. all he needed was the updated spects. and his own opinion.
thanks for the thoughtful reply!
The cool thing I noticed was he was using only his left hand thumb to navigate :)
I love Lumia 925, awesome
This phone is a phone ! Once you start using it, you will understand ! Battery life it's truly amazing !
i understand you .. I'm talking about my experiment with the symbian that i didn't enjoy .. you get my point ??
i've used iphone and samsung and i might get this one for my next phone
will lumia 925 get the windows 10 up grade
How is your battery life?
Just wondering, which one do u guys think has a better design? 920 or 925? Give me a reply! Thanks!
Lumia 925 became much better with Windows Phone 8.1
Does it mean if a phone has many cores processor then it will become faster? or stable OS like iOS & WP8 don't need that specs. Ok. I think the answer is obvious, they still run smoothly anyway.
The cool thing I noticed was the sound of Airplane at 10:15.
I wanted to buy the lumia 925 ,but then i heard some of the users have been complaining about the lumia 925, that really bothered me was about the over heating,lack of memory and the poor battery . Other than that i was really satisfy about the phone ,so can someone give me some advise about should i buy the lumia 925 ??
Your review is biased right from the beginning. You are more focussed on highlighting minor flaws. I am not saying that you should say that 925 is very good but its definitely a fair review. If you look at phonedog's review on 925, its a fair review.
My HTC 8x has the same problem with the muffled sound but it doesn't go through clearly as the 925!
You should review the HTC 8x :o windows OS as well
my lumia 925 is default to 7 megapixel. and it doesnt change. how to fix it ?
my s3 doesnt lose any of its quality when looking at it from extreme angles, is this weird or are samsung just good with screen quality?
My mother's first nokia windows phone
Nice, is this the whole Bulgarian office crew? :)
thanks for the info!
Only if I didn't waste (not actually waste) my money on my 8X... I just DIE when I see Nokia's innovations...
Only Nokia has the premium feel I like.
Only thing I don't like about this is the AMOLED screen and no sd card! It's a bit like Nokias version of the Sony Xperia SP with its aluminum frame!
Nokia really should do an android flagship
Does this support OTG?
So no major changes, point in that !
Just because he uploaded the unboxing and then the review 8 hours later doesn't mean anything, they probably recorded this way before it was uploaded.... so yeah.
i think they have the videos b4 and then they post it at a different time
Being first in reviewing products nets them more viewers but yeah, obviously, you can't really tell people how good the product is if you barely used it yourself.
How is the call quality weak? This is like the 5th review of the phone i watched, and the others actually praise it. Strange...
Good hardware stable os, what gou waiting for..grab it!
Where did you get to know those guys shown in the "people" tile starting around 2:14 ? They sure look strange! ;)
Dr. Gru from Despicable me reviewing the phone !! :D
334 ppi is pretty decent??? why would you need more ppi?
Thank tou
Nokia y dont u go into andriod,i dont see any many people using windows os unless microsoft empolyees.
How much does this phone retail for.
Are you kidding? I used to use WP all the fucking time all the way back to WP 3, and it sucked ass and annoyed the shit out of me? I went through 4-5 HTC windows phones in just a few years, and I just ship to the iPhone almost immediately, and I couldn't have been happier until I went over to Android and got my socks blown off by the sheer innovation and user-friendliness, after a while I got an HTC Titan and sold it off again because of how much WP 7 sucked, now I have an Xperia T.
Because nokia sees wp8 as a potential os. I do too and yeah I'm an android user
well, That's explain why iOS is the most popular OS in most country and WP only get under 5% market share..
I WANT IT!
me to......i just wish it was on sprint :(
@evans387 wait for the next OS update and series of flagships. Its still growing
Love Nokia
It depends on your Wifi security type.
You unboxed it just 8 hours ago, and 3 hours from that you already have a review? mm I think this isn't the most honest review.
I have decided to give this device a chance for professional use i.e. work purposes.
that is true, also all the essential apps are there and that's what matters, even if there lacks a certain important app, there are other third party app that has already solved the problem.
also android lacks superb apps like nokia smartshoot, here maps, here drive, xbox games & music.
btw creative studio is 100,000 times better than shitty instagram.
Poor call quality? Really? Not buying that opinion based on what I've heard about this device from many other professional reviews. As for the speaker, it's very good...but can't compare with HTC One's front facing stereo speakers.
Can u jst help me out dude, im unable to set the wifi in my 925. I hv a secure ip wifi connection. So everytime i put d password and select done, it says unsuccessfull connection and i am not getting the ip config option like the other android or blackberry phones.
Wish I got this......
does it support micro sd card
no does not
everyone kept telling me to give the lumia 925 a chance so i did.
so far i cant log into my google account, my contacts linked to my account arent showing up, few apps that support google hangout features and having to scroll through a list of my apps is a chore.
i immediately regret it
If you are a heavy Google user, why did you buy a Windows phone?
***** actually knowing how to use it is simple but the ui
is very cumbersome and i have to scroll through all your apps if you dont want to pin it to the start menu
jairtzinio
why don't you pin it, then?
Grobee i have a lot of experience with Nokia, their devices has often supported their apps and services as far back as 2007. the problem i see with windows phone is there are a lot of abandoned apps that Microsoft has yet to do anything about, that's a bad thing because through out a series of updates those apps are no longer working and people are buying them only to not have them working anymore.
furthermore just because its a windows phone device doesn't mean it should be anti Google, Nokias Linux devices never had this problem and its a shame they cant even bother themselves to work on it for their current line up
jairtzinio
They can't do that because Microsoft bought Nokia.
it has a lot of flaws. it gets VERY hot while doing things like Skyping(or just facebook) and i have a problem with the display . I haven't dropped it and nothing out of the ordinary has happened to it
Stop buying fake phones.
Muyanzi Reid are you kidding me . .on monday they will replace it with another one.trust me it is not fake. I'm not stupid. Maybe it is only mine but I definitely wouldn't buy it again
andrei maghet Ok, its your loss.
Are u sure it's not just ur hand? I have this phone and it never heats up, unless I wrap my hand around it......
windows phone users, how's the marketplace shoring up? I don't want to leave android's awesome app/game marketplace for a ghost town on windows/nokia...
Grrr found Galaxy Note 2 and 925 for £15 a month, can't choose!!! Help!
You sound like Gru, despicable me..;) nice review tough...
INTRIGUING GIANT PANDA MYSTERIES
can this take a sd card?
It does not have that option unfortunately. at least mine doesnt
I really want to like Wp8 but honestly it's got nothing on Android.
that is spicy-a meat ball
I would love to buy Nokia phones, but Windows OS is not worth the investment yet
cool phone lumia 925
is it better than lumia 920 ! overall ! in software and design ! :D :/
You sound like Keralis
Well I am waiting for a water resistant and really strong windows phone :)
ALU-MINIUM!
Not aluminum
I have WP 7 phone (Nokia Lumia 800) and one of my friends has Samsung Galaxy S4. I don't see anything special about it, maybe because I expected something better. Yes, it has a lot of applications, but WP lacks of games in the store, you can find every important application on both WP and Android. My phone has 1.5 GHz single core processor and doesn't lag. My friend's S4 lags sometimes in the menu.... I won't buy Android device, I don't want even to try any. WP menu is better cuz its simplier...
This guy doesn’t know that AMOLED screens are a lot better than LCD 😂😂😂
1.They are much more brighter than LCD’s
2.They have much more vibrant colors
3.They have the best viewing angles out there
i thought it boring because i have nokia c7 it works with Symbian 3 and it is boring device .. so thought the windows and Symbian are same ... now i prefer the Samsung the note 2 .. what you say ??
But its a start. Not everyone has the money to buy the phone.
Have you ever thought that he maybe filmed the unboxing when he got the unit, at the beginning of this month, then spent some time with the phone, then made this review and uploaded both videos in the same day?!? People usually expect the full package when they search for a phone. You first see the unboxing video, then the actual review. It wouldn't make sense to release the unboxing vid a week ago, and just NOW post the review, don't you think? It looks nasty. It's better to release them both.
Its a 8.7 connor wright
first im a nokia fan
Nokia is the best !!!!!