Review Nokia Lumia 625

Key features: Snapdragon Dual-core 1.2 GHz CPU; 512 MB of RAM; 8 GB of storage, microSD slot; Windows Phone 8. 4.7-inch screen 800 x 480 pixels

Manufacturer: Nokia

Nokia Series Lumia has shown that it is perfectly possible to take stock of cracked Windows Phone 8 mobile – the Lumia 520 and 620 Lumia are best cheap phones.

Nokia smartphone Lumia 625 is out to make the idea a step further. It has a larger screen than one of those phones and also offers 4 g connectivity. Priced at about £ 200 SIM-free, is one of the cheapest ways to get connected with ultra-fast internet. There are some compromises that you must live with it.

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The Nokia Lumia 625 seems, as you can guess from the name, a bit like an oversized 620 Lumia. Has a 4.7 inches, much larger than we usually expect from a relatively affordable phone like this.

La Lumia 625 also has the battery cover as the 620. La Lumia 625 has a plastic shell covering the back and sides of the phone, so there aren't any obvious seams to see on his body.

Also shares the style of double-layer finish and the outside of the plastic shell is translucent plastic. Available colors include la Lumia-red bow, green and yellow, with black and white for those who after a look more serious.

Although it borrows design elements from Lumia 620, 625 Lumia so nice is not a phone. There are visible spots on plastic case under the translucent portion, which ruin the look a bit, and black high contrast buttons were eliminated in favor of a more harmless those color-matched. The largest portable format ensures that it is not just cute either.

It's a bit like a child actor who grew up, but he retained enough of their children seem to look a bit strange as an adult. La Lumia 625 – Fred Savage of the phone world. Of course, all this is avoided if you opt for models in black or white.

Ergonomically, you sound too. La Lumia 625 is 9.2 mm thick and shoulders slightly curved leaves no hard edges for fingers grab hold of. Is heavier than most of the phones to 160 g, but not enough to become a serious problem.

As we expect from Nokia, the build quality is good too. The plastic used in 625 Lumia is thick enough to prevent suspicious crunches in normal use

Its 8 GB of internal storage is one of the signs that the 625 Lumia is a budget phone. However, under the cover you will find a microSD card slot for expansion storage easy and cheap.

Another feature of Lumia 625 that makes him feel like a blown-up Lumia 620 is the screen. It's a 4.7-inch display with the same resolution of 480 x 800 pixels and la Lumia 520 and 620 Lumia.

This is a very low resolution display to a projector. To put it in context, the screen on the HTC one has more than 2 million pixels. La Lumia 625 less than 400,000.

The screen is not very strong. Windows Phone 8 attempts to combat the problem with a clever text smoothing in the main interface. This makes the display on 625 la Lumia appear soft, rather than blocks. Basically it looks great. The disappointing resolution screen presents even more in some parts of the Microsoft phone has a little less control over – such as playing videos or surf the web. Small text can also look very blocky.

It uses an LCD Panel that has none of the claims "clear Black" associated with more expensive Nokia phones. When transformed into certain corners, Lumia 625 screen turns greyish. More importantly, color and contrast are generally just aren't particularly good. Disastrous? No pop images in the same way they do on other phones Lumia. By-side, Lumia screen appears worse than 625 of Lumia or 520 620 Lumia.

That said, the anti-reflective coating of Lumia 625 is superior to Lumia 520 – is quite usable outside at maximum brightness.

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