Nokia unveils new flagship: Lumia 925

Nokia today introduced the Nokia Lumia 925, featuring a metal chassis and upgraded PureView camera.

Nokia today introduced the Nokia Lumia 925, “a new interpretation”” of its 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 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.

Nokia also announced Hipstamatic’s new app, Oggl, which will arrive on Nokia Lumia smartphones, allowing people to take and share high quality pictures with like-minded users 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.

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 wireless charging accessories and ecosystem. Covers, sold separately, come in white, black, yellow, and red.

Nokia services, such as the HERE suite of integrated location and navigation services and Nokia Music for unlimited streaming of free music playlists are also included on the 925.

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.””

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