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hey what's up guys I'm Kay PhD here and this is a Windows Phone 8 handset this is the Nokia Lumia 925 a lot of people asked me to review a Windows Phone 8 device not just because it's Windows Phone 8 but because it's coming from the perspective of someone like me who uses a lot of Google services I use Google Tasks Google Calendar Gmail a lot of things like that that make it really really good for Android now Windows Phone 8 has come out and it's been around for a while but I've never really tried it out because I've never really seen all the customization and all the same functionality that I see in Android and anything about Windows Phone 8 but I'm going to give it a shot I gave it a full fair shot and I think it's important to note where I'm coming from and where I see this device from so got any further ado is go and take a look at the Nokia Lumia 925 so first of all on the outside this thing has pretty great hardware it's up there on the top 5 best built smartphones you can get right now alongside the HTC One near the top seriously it has zero give zero flex and all aluminum ring around the outside Gorilla Glass 2 on the front and technically a plastic back but a very rigid solid build it's also rounded on every single corner and the design is pretty nice and it has a slimming matte finish on that back so basically it's like a Lumia 920 on a diet it's slimmer and thinner and more pocketable than its cousin in every single way and it ends up making a beautifully sculpted device now in the specs Department it's interesting because this is supposed to be a flagship device right well it doesn't have what we would think of as flagship specs it has a 4.5 inch 1280 by 768 AMOLED display a 1.5 gigahertz dual-core Snapdragon s4 processor 1 gigabyte of RAM a 2000 million power battery it's kind of reminiscent of the galaxy s 2 to be honest but even at its 1280 by 768 resolution and all that it's it's fine because Windows Phone and all of its apps yes all of them trust me they'll work just fine with what seems like mid-range specs for a phone in 2013 so that AMOLED display is actually pretty awesome it's 1280 by 768 but it comes in at 334 PPI so it's a very high pixel NC and of course since so much of Windows Phone is based around this color on black you get a good look at those insane contrast ratios and deep blacks you get from the display being AMOLED it's also very readable outdoors too another thing about the design choice is that all of the buttons on this phone are on the right-hand side so the volume rocker the power button and that dedicated camera switch are all on the right-hand side and I think that actually makes for a pretty compact easy to use device you only really have to use it in one single hand where your thumb is you can access every single one of these buttons and I think it's also notable that there's that camera key because actually makes it feel like a really solid shooter even if you're not taking the best pictures in the world with this pure view shooter on the back and the dedicated half press and full press to focus and take a picture this camera button is is really solid and I think it adds that feel brings us back to like the 2010 LG Voyager style phones where you always got that dedicated camera button and speaking of the camera the back of this device is basically dedicated to exactly that the decently loud speaker on the bottom and the camera it's an eight point seven megapixel PureView camera now I can't get into exactly how the proprietary PureView technology works behind the scenes when you're taking shots but it is a pretty big deal to what Nokia is doing with this camera but at the end of the day this phone is a great walk-around camera it takes sharp shots with nice contrast solid amount of detail pretty good low-light performance I would say and it also happens to have really good stabilization I noticed especially when zooming in and when taking video but at the end of the day it's about on par with any other high-end 8 megapixel camera which makes sense so the hardware is essentially a mid-range inside with beautifully sculpted externals so how about that software well it's alright it's alright the Lumia 925 like we said is running Windows Phone 8 the latest version and the operating system itself is pretty unique and a lot of ways that a lot of people will like but it's also missing a lot of things that a lot of people have gotten used to having in other OSS namely the apps but we'll get to that in a second so it's pretty minimalist style operating system overall as you can see pretty easy on the eye is very text heavy and overall pretty easy to get used to using it goes exactly as you'd expect everything does what you expect it to so the ease of use factor is pretty great and I could probably give this to my parents and they'd figure out most of it in about two seconds flat and in terms of style it's actually something I can see myself getting used to if I sign a contract and had this going for a few years of course if you're not into red and black like I am you can always change the overall theme of the entire OS with just a pair of flipped switches which is pretty convenient but that's as much customization as you're going to get with these phones so if you like making the device your own like you really like making changes on any number of Android phones out there you'll be a bit disappointed with the lack of UI changes you actually can make especially with your home screen in Windows Phone 8 in the home screen basically besides changing the colors you can only change the size and positioning of your tiles and what you decide to pin on your home screen that's about it so some of the information you can see before you tap it these are called live tiles and they give a bit of a dynamic look but that's it you can't change anything else about the home screen and next to that you get your list of apps so yeah I'm usually a person who likes tinkering around with the look of the Android you know OS and home screens and things like that I got bored pretty easily in Windows Phone I hate to say that but as I was tinkering in Windows Phone I found that this this device had a particularly impressive battery life I mentioned before it only has a 2,000 milliamp hour battery but thanks to that AMOLED display and the deep blacks made constant appearances in Windows Phone 8 I'm able to get some pretty impressive battery life I would go to say all-day battery and then a little bit more on only two thousand milliamp hours and that's because Windows Phone is really really effective and efficient and the standby times were outstanding standby times are great I can put it to sleep with a hundred percent battery and wake it up the next morning and it would have 97% battery which was really really cool but you'd expect a phone with such great battery life to sacrifice a bit on performance again Windows Phone takes a lot at the helm here and performance actually was usually pretty good it was very responsive especially with the slick Gorilla Glass 2 on the front but this was a little bit dependent on the app but that's the thing the apps there are very very few apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace and in fact I would go to say that this is this is the killer right now this is what kills Windows Phone for me I could use Windows Phone for a while if I had to sign a contract but the app support just isn't there there are so many apps that I would use on iOS and Android that I just can't find in fact if you take a look through the Windows Phone marketplace you will see in the list of the top apps in the entire marketplace it very quickly diminishes from you know Angry Birds and the highest end developers straight down to like flashlights and you know mini-games and just terrible terrible apps in the top in the whole entire App Store so I mean this is not a great App Store at all again the interface is fine it looks fine it functions perfectly but it's just missing so many of the apps we're used to having so overall it turns out that the Lumia 925 is a really nice Windows Phone flagship and definitely worthy and deserving of the Lumia tag now if this phone was running Android I probably carry it in a heartbeat I am such a big fan of the outside of this phone and the design and the aesthetics and the build quality just like the HTC One the nokia of all the nokia phones have in general been really well built but this one's a lot thinner and a lot more rounded and a lot more pocket-friendly than the previous Lumia bricks so I really liked it lochia Lumia 925 to design and build and effects and everything like that but yeah there are a lot of decisions you have to make if you want to decide carry this phone or not that I've listed out in the review and the choice is yours would you carry this phone I think I think I'd be down either way thanks for watching if you enjoy this video for the give a thumbs up 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