The flagship Smartphone from Nokia, the Lumia 928 was released a little earlier, after which came the Lumia 925 with some minor amendments. The big question is how are both the phones different? What separates both the phones and how are they similar to one another? A quick view will help you recognize their differences:
Design:
With regards to the design of the phones, Lumia 928 looks almost like its original design by featuring a full-fledge polycarbonate body and a similar look like the 920. But the design of 925 is more like a departure from the 928. With a blend aluminum material on the sides and polycarbonate on the rear side, the phone looks strikingly amazing in person rather than in pictures. The introduction of the new material is surely a welcoming change for Lumia version. It gives 925, a premium feel with a nice texture and matte polycarbonate rear side. All in all, the 928 carries the conservative look of Lumia 920 and the Lumia 925 carries a refreshing body change, but in limited shades.
Talking about the small designing decision taken while making the phone, Lumia 928 has the benefit of not needing pin to open the SIM card tray, which the users find helpful in constrained conditions. But, Nokia failed to include a similar arrangement in its recent launch, the Lumia 925.
Dimension:
Nokia Lumia925 is a little short from 928 by a few millimeters, but it is the thickness of the phone that steals the limelight. The Lumia 925 sports an impressive sleeker build and is just 8.5mm thick while the Lumia 928 is reportedly 10.7mm thick.
With regards to the weight of both the phones, the 925 will impress the mass users with its classic light weight. Nokia Lumia 925 has been called Catwalk lately, even during its developmental phase for the right reasons. With a sleek body of 8.5mm, the Smartphone is extremely light weighing just 139 gms, even after lodging a complete PureView 8.7 MP rear camera with multi-axis optical image stabilization technique. On the other hand, the Lumia 928 is around 162 gms.
Display:
In terms of the display of both the phones, Lumia 928 and 925 have AMOLED screen along with Pentile pixel arrangement. Lumia 925 has better color reproduction due to its perfect built-in color profile settings, while the Lumia 928 looks warm, saturated and lavish. Both the phones have a screen size of 4.5 inches with light sensor, proximity sensor and Corning Gorilla scratch resistant glass.
Camera:
Speaking about the camera, both the phones are different in specs. The Lumia 928 features Xenon flash which works amazingly well in capturing and stabilizing moving substances while the newer version of Nokia, the Lumia 925 sports an additional lens elements along with its Zeiss lens to enhance the sharpness and clearness of the images. During the daylight, you cannot address minor difference, but while going for acute angles, 928 leads to a defocusing blurring of the image, but Lumia 925 handles it exceptionally well with perfect clarity and sharpness evenly.
Both the phones feature 8.7MP camera that support Back-illuminated sensor, auto focus, exposure compensation, geo-tagging, optical image stabilization but Lumia 925 goes a step ahead and features touch to focus, face detection, Panorama scenes and white balance presets. The front camera of both the device is 1.2MP that allows video capturing 720p HD @30fps.
Hardware:
Now moving to the hardware of the devices, talking about their internals, both the phones carry the same chips, boards leaving the wireless charging feature that goes missing from 925. Both the devices come compacted with Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus MSM8960 Dual-Core processor clocked at 1500MHz with a graphic processor of Adreno 225.The internal storage is changed, but the external storage is same. However, none of them features a removable storage option.
Operating System:
Coming to the software system of the devices, Lumia 925 segregates itself with its startling new Amber update. Though both the devices run on Windows Phone 8 but the Amber update of 925 gives it a competitive edge over the Lumia 928.
Connectivity:
Discussing the connectivity of both the phones, Lumia 928 and Lumia 025 offer same connectivity almost. Both allow Bluetooth v3.0, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/ b/g/ n, USB 2.0, MicroUSB, USB charging, NFC, DLNA, OTA Sync, Tethering and more.
Battery Life:
Talking about the battery life and price of both the phones, Nokia Lumia 928 features Li-Polymer battery of 2000mAh that offers a talk time of 16.20 hours and a standby of 606 hours. It renders a music playback of 80 hours and video streaming duration of 6 hours 30 minutes. The device comes decked with an inbuilt wireless charging facility. However, the Lumia 925 comes with a 2000mAh battery that gives a talk time of 18 hours 0 minutes which larger than 928 but a lesser standby period. It offers a music playback of 55 houses and video playback of 6 hours 6o minutes.
Price:
Lastly, speak to you about the pricing of both the phone. Launched under the same flagship, Nokia Lumia 925 price in India has been tagged at INR 31,999/- while Nokia Lumia 928 has been labeled at 33,773/-
Conclusion:
To conclude, Lumia 925 is a phone with substantial enhancement in built and overall design. Even in other aspects like the internal hardware, the phone features better performance. The camera of the phone is the most sought after feature of the Lumia 925. But, it failure of wireless charging takes the phone a step back. The additional camera lens, better receptions, lighter weight will surely attract more takers for 925.But, what adds to its disadvantage is its limited color choice and 16GB internal storage.
While talking about Lumia 928, it features an improved battery life, Xenon Flash, 3 HACC microphone, wireless charging and two colour choices. So, with such a clear differentiation, users can easily make their selection and opt for the device which they really desire to purchase with respect to design, utility, battery, build, camera specs and battery. All in all both the Lumia sets offer cut throat competition to one another.