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Fun, Fast and Affordable: Nokia Unveils Lumia 625

July 23, 2013 by ucinfo, posted in Lumia, News, Nokia

Espoo, Finland – Nokia today announced the Nokia Lumia 625, an accessibly priced 4G smartphone to help people see more of what they love. The Nokia Lumia 625 delivers high-speed entertainment to a wide audience with a large 4.7-inch super-sensitive LCD screen and 4G Internet access.

Building on the award winning Nokia Lumia design, the Nokia Lumia 625 includes five brightly coloured changeable shells, which add to the Live Tile personalisation brought by Windows Phone 8.

The Nokia Lumia 625 also provides many innovations found in the recently announced flagship Nokia Lumia 1020. These include a range of integrated camera applications like Nokia Smart Camera, offering handy features like removing unwanted objects from pictures, and Nokia Cinemagraph, which turns photos into living memories with added movement.

"With our largest smartphone screen to date, the Nokia Lumia 625 is a perfect example of how Nokia is delivering leading smartphone innovation and experiences at every price point," said Jo Harlow, executive vice president, Nokia Smart Devices.

Powered by the latest version of Windows Phone 8 and including the Nokia Lumia Amber update, the Nokia Lumia 625 delivers a richer and easier to use smartphone experience at a competitive price. Live Tiles update direct to the home screen, and People Hub makes it easy to stay connected with friends and family. Windows Phone 8 also includes Xbox Live, Microsoft Office, and 7GB of online SkyDrive storage to simply make life easier.

With access to more than 165,000 apps including Vimeo, Temple Run and WhatsApp, the Nokia Lumia 625 offers faster mobile fun, as well as safer surfing with Internet Explorer 10 – making it ideal for viewing videos, games, and other content. The Nokia Lumia 625 also offers SD memory card support, allowing up to 64GB of additional content storage.

Nokia Music provides unlimited streaming of ad-free mixes without registration or subscription, plus the ability to download mixes for listening offline with the Nokia Lumia 625. Nokia has also teamed with Coloud(TM) to create BOOM(TM) headphones that combine audio prowess with excellent value, and integrated microphone and buttons for voice calls and music control.

With its big screen and super-fast connectivity, the Nokia Lumia 625 offers leading maps and location experiences from HERE, providing free maps, turn-by-turn navigation and public transport guidance.

The Nokia Lumia 625 will be available in a range of colours including orange, yellow, bright green, white and black with an array of changeable shells enabling easy personalisation. With an estimated retail price of 220 Euros before taxes and subsidies, the Nokia Lumia 625 is planned to begin selling in China, Europe, Asia Pacific, India, Middle East, Africa and Latin America in Q3 2013.

Notes to editors:
Data charges may occur from using HERE and Nokia Music services over a cellular network.

	Nokia Lumia 625
Operating System	Windows Phone 8
Display	4.7 inch WVGA @ 201ppi with Sunlight Readability Enhancement, High Brightness Mode, Color Enhancement and Super Sensitive Touch
Battery	2000 mAh
Processor	1.2GHz, Dual Core
Camera	Main: 5MP Autofocus, LED flash ,1080p@30fps, VGA front facing camera
Memory	512MB RAM 8GB with support for up to 64GB SD card

Read more about the Nokia Lumia 625 on Nokia Conversations.

How to: Hard Reset Nokia Lumia 920, 820, 720, 620, 925, 928

July 3, 2013July 3, 2013 by ucinfo, posted in Lumia, Nokia

#Nokia #WindowsPhone .. Ohh had to do this yesterday. Unplugged the phone as I left in the morning, hit the power button and it rebooted and stuck at the Nokia logo?! This saved the day. As Soft Reset worked

http://ukmobilereview.com/2013/05/how-to-hard-reset-the-nokia-lumia-920-and-lumia-820/

Soft Reset

Hold the Volume Down and Power buttons down until the phone vibrates three times. The phone should successfully restart with the Nokia logo after a few seconds.

Hard Reset

If the phone powers on, navigate to Settings > About > Reset your Phone.

This will reset your phone to factory settings. If the OS won’t load up, use the method below.

To perform a hard reset, press the Volume Down, Camera and Power buttons at the same time. Hold all three buttons down until the phone vibrates then release power button and hold volume down and camera for a further five seconds.

Nokia Lumina 925

June 30, 2013 by ucinfo, posted in Gadgets, Lumia, Nokia

#Lumina #Nokia #WindowsPhone

So my latest toy has rocked up!

So I am an iPhone user. I have had 3gs and currently have a 4. I suppose deep down, when Apple went to war with Samsung, I thought Apple had turned in to a bully! So when my iPhone started playing up, I decided to drop Apple and look elsewhere. That really left 3, Android, BlackBerry or Windows Mobile.

What I don’t like about Android is the open nature of the apps. Yes as an OS it’s looks great and has some awesome devices, but no. BlackBerry, well no thanks ;-). I suppose I was always going to get a Windows Mobile device. I have had many in the past, so It was just a matter of time. I thought about and Lumina 920, but then got a hint that something new was in the pipeline so held off. The 925 is what is new!

As it goes, it was also time for to switch mobile provider. I have been with T-Mobile in the UK for ages, and for the last few months the signal has been pants. I look around at price plans and EE is soooo expensive. All I want is unlimited data, and a bit of calls and text. I am looking at the EE website now, and to get say 1GB a month will set you back £41!.. So I settled for 3. For £34 a month, I get a FREE Nokia Lumia 925, as much data as I want and more calls & texts than I could ever use. You know what is funny, when I called T-Mobile to asked for a PAC code, all of a sudden the prices of phones and contracts fell through the floor, but that doesn’t fix the issue of bad signal!

Lets get started ..

… with the boring stuff shall we. I was disappointed the phone didn’t come fully charged, so had to wait for a full charge.

Phat Farm was interesting, it is actually 1g lighter than my iPhone 4 .. but a lot bigger!

Nokia Lumia 925

<- 70.6mm ->

Nokia Lumia 925
<- 8.5 mm ->

Height: 129 mm
Width: 70.6 mm
Thickness2: 8.5 mm
Weight: 139 g

The display is lovely. It’s 768×1280 and the glass just wraps in to the case. When it comes to phone screens I am a nightmare. I nearly always put a phone in my pocket with change or keys. The glass on the 925 is Corning Gorilla Glass 2, but I don’t trust myself, so will look out for a Zagg invisibleshield.

One problem I have found is that the device is nice in the hand, but slippery. A number of times I have almost dropped it. I find that the top of my hand sits well below the back camera, and that seems to be good for me.

It has a Dual-core 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon™ S4 processor (whatever that means), all that matters to me is that it performs really quite nicely. I have not noticed any lag when switching apps or downloading.

It comes with 32GB of storage and no micro-SD slot, but to be honest, I am going to use it play music or watch video, I have a Microsoft Surface RT for that. It funny, years ago I wanted just one device to do everything. This meant not getting the best device, but a middle of the road one. These days, I just want a device to do what is says on the box, and get what I think is best for me. Yeah I know I could put loads of music or videos on my 925, but I want to save the battery. There is nothing worse than wanting to make a phone or check something on the web, and you device only has 10% battery. I just hate that!

My 925 is running Windows Phone 8.0 [8.0.10327.77] with the Lumia Amber software, and it was made in Hungary.

I borrowed these off the Nokia website. Basically 4 buttons on the side with headphone and micro-USB on the top.

FRONT

1 – Micro-SIM holder

2 – Micro-USB connector

3 – Connector for headphones and loudspeakers (3.5 mm)

4 – Front camera

5 – Proximity/Light sensor

6 – Volume keys

7 – Power/Lock key

8 – Camera key

9 – Back key

10 – Start key

11 – Search key

12 – Microphone

13 – Earpiece

BACK

Items listed top
to bottom. With back of phone facing you: camera lens, wireless charging
connectors, loudspeaker.

14 – Camera flash

15 – Back camera

16 – Wireless charging connectors

17 – Loudspeaker

It also has a couple of other things of interest. On the each corner there is what look looked like an LED. Not sure what they are for.

Apps

So this is probably the most disappointing thing about the phone. Yeah I know Microsoft is trying to get people to write Apps, but there is no comparison to the Apple, or Google app stores. Why can’t Microsoft just make it so?! They are a software company. Find the most popular apps and just port them to Windows Phone?

The killer for me is no official Starbuck Apps (come on Starbucks you started just a stones throw from Microsoft in Seattle, fly the Seattle flag and bring us an app! pleeeeeeeeeease!) but I did find one that let me “scan with phone”. The app store is searchable which is good and easy to navigate.

Icons on the start screen have 3 sizes.

Not apps have “Live Tiles” which is a shame. Flick to the left and get the app list. To start with this is just a list of the apps. When you reach some kind of threshold, it changes to an ordered list. What is cool is that you can tap say A and a new list appear. Tap on a letter and then is goes to apps. If you pin an app to the start screen, it’s one tap to load. If you don’t, it’s one swipe and 3 taps away. Once you get used to it, it’s really fast. On an iPhone it’s find the container, tap to expand it and tap to open the app. I always had trouble with the small icons on the iPhone and the 925 with Windows Phone 8 make it nice and easy!

Battery Life

I suppose battery life is a common problem with any phone. it has a 2000 mAh battery which is quite quick to charge. So far so good, it lasts more than a day, and I have seen that with WiFi off it last longer.

So what do I think?

The device is great, and I think a lot of people are saying the same. I compared it to Matt’s Lumina 920 and was surprised at how much smarter the 925 is. Not only thinner, bit it looks good.

What isn’t great are the Apps! Microsoft has a very long way to catch up with Apple and Google, which does make me hang my head in shame, as Microsoft used to be a big player in the mobile phone arena with Windows Mobile.

I am still getting used to the new OS, but so far it easy to use. What is quite nice is that the device gives you hints and tips when you do things. For example, to delete email in the mail app, I was pressing and holding on the message and a dialog would allow me to delete. It suggested you tap to the left of the message to select and delete!

I have not had any kind of serious play with an Android, so can’t comment, but if your not an App monster, I would take the Nokia Lumina 925 over any iPhone. It looks nice, feels nice and is more than fast enough for what I need.

An FYI. If you want a new phone and you are out of contract, the just threaten to leave! Most mobile providers will bend over backwards to keep you! Also remember that reception is key. You may get 2000 minutes of calls and unlimited data, but that is useless if you have no signal!

#Nokia introduces Nokia Lumia 925

May 14, 2013 by ucinfo, posted in !News, Lumia, Nokia

New interpretation of world’s most innovative smartphone captures the best low light images

London, UK – Nokia today introduced the Nokia Lumia 925, a new interpretation of its award-winning flagship, the Nokia Lumia 920. The Nokia Lumia 925 introduces a metal design and showcases the latest PureView camera innovation, new features and third party applications coming to the Nokia Lumia range.

The Nokia Lumia 925 includes the most advanced lens technology and next
generation imaging software to capture clearer, sharper pictures and video, including the best low light images. The Nokia Lumia 925 also introduces the new Nokia Smart Camera mode, coming as an update to all Lumia Windows Phone 8 smartphones. Nokia Smart Camera offers an easy way to capture ten images at once and edit the pictures with options like Best Shot, Action Shot, and Motion Focus for creating the perfect high quality image.

Nokia also announced Hipstamatic’s new app, Oggl, will arrive on Nokia Lumia smartphones, allowing people to take and share high quality pictures with like-minded creatives and photography enthusiasts from around the world. In addition to sharing photos on Oggl, users can simultaneously share photos on social networks including Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Tumblr, Flickr and Instagram.

“We keep innovating,” said Jo Harlow, executive vice president of Nokia Smart Devices. “We’re advancing experiences on the Nokia Lumia portfolio whether that means great new benefits for an existing Lumia owner, or bringing new showcase devices like the Nokia Lumia 925.”

The Nokia Lumia 925 introduces metal for the first time to the Nokia Lumia range, bringing appeal and unique benefits like increased robustness. The polycarbonate back comes in white, grey or black. A wireless charging cover can be clipped onto the back of the phone to take advantage of Nokia’s extensive wireless charging accessories and ecosystem. Covers, sold separately, come in white, black, yellow, and red.

Leading Nokia services, such as the HERE suite of integrated location and navigation services and Nokia Music for unlimited streaming of free music playlists, add to the great proposition offered by Nokia’s latest smartphone.

The Nokia Lumia 925 is being introduced into Europe with Vodafone, along with other operator and retail partners. Patrick Chomet, group director of Terminals at Vodafone said: “The new Nokia Lumia 925 is a sleek and sophisticated smartphone delivering great performance and outstanding imaging. We look forward to offering the Nokia Lumia 925 across our markets on Vodafone Red, as well as other tariffs, enabling customers to make the most of their new smartphone on Vodafone’s fast and reliable network. Vodafone customers will also have exclusive access to a 32GB version of the Nokia Lumia 925, giving them even more capacity to store all their content for personal and business use.”

Terry Myerson, corporate vice president, Microsoft Windows Phone Division, added: “Together with Nokia, we continue to change the way people think about smartphone cameras. The work Nokia has done with the Lumia 925 further enhances the imaging capabilities of the Lumia smartphones.”

In addition to Europe, the Nokia Lumia 925 will be introduced into the US by T-Mobile and into China by China Mobile and China Unicom. Sales are expected to start in the UK, Germany, Italy, Spain and China in June, followed by the US and a number of other markets. The Nokia Lumia 925 will be priced around 469 EUR before taxes and subsidies. Country-specific pricing and availability will be announced locally.

Nokia Lumia 925
Operating system	Windows Phone 8
HERE location and mapping services	Free global HERE Maps and HERE Drive+;Free HERE Transit available in the Store
Display	4.5″ AMOLED WXGA (1280×768), 2.25 D sculpted Gorilla 2 Glass, ClearBlack, High Brightness Mode, Sunlight Readability, Super Sensitive Touch for glove and nail usage
Battery	2000 mAh battery, Wireless Charging supported via an accessory cover
Processor	1.5 GHz dual-core Snapdragon
Main camera	PureView 8.7 MP with Optical Image Stabilization, Autofocus, short pulse high power dual LED flash, most advanced lens technology, 1080p HD video at 30fps with Optical Image Stabilization. Includes Nokia Smart Camera mode.
Front facing camera	1.2 MP wide angle
Memory	1GB RAM, 16 GB internal memory; 7 GB free SkyDrive cloud storage

Read more about the Nokia Lumia 925 on Nokia Conversations.

About Nokia
Nokia is a global leader in mobile communications whose products have become an integral part of the lives of people around the world. Every day, more than 1.3 billion people use their Nokia to capture and share experiences, access information, find their way or simply to speak to one another. Nokia’s technological and design innovations have made its brand one of the most recognized in the world. For more information, visit http://www.nokia.com/about-nokia