Which smartphone is the ideal purchase for consumers? We pit the Nokia Lumia 625 against the HTC 8XT to see which device is better.
In terms of design and display, the Nokia Lumia 625 has a larger display of 4.7 inches IPS LCD, with a resolution of 480x800pixels and 199ppi, which is protected with Corning Gorilla Glass 2. The HTC 8XT has a 4.3 inches screen, but it supports the same resolution as it rival and beats it in pixel density, because it supports 217ppi. The HTC smartphone is also protected by a Corning Gorilla Glass, as well.
The HTC smartphone weighs 120 grams and measures 132.1x66x9.9 mm, while the Nokia Lumia 625 weighs 39 grams more and measures 133.3×72.3×9.2 mm.
For hardware and OS, both smartphones are powered by Krait processors with two cores, supported by Qualcomm MSM8930 Snapdragon chipsets and they’re using Adreno 305 GPU. However, the HTC 8XT is faster, as it comes with a higher clock speed of 1.4GHz, while the Nokia Lumia 625 has its processor clocked at 1.2GHz. Plus, the HTC device has a bigger RAM capacity of 1GB, while the Nokia smartphone runs with 512MB of RAM. The internal memory is the same on both phones: 8GB and it supports expansion up to 64GB. They also come loaded with Microsoft Windows Phone 8, but the Nokia device was privileged to receive the 8.1 update.
For battery and camera specs, the Nokia Lumia 625's battery capacity is at 2000mAh, but users should know that the battery is non removable. The HTC 8XT has a Li-Po 1800mAh user replaceable battery with a total duration of talktime of 14 hours.
The Nokia device has a modest primary camera of 5MP with autofocus, LED flash, geo tagging and touch focus, it records at 1080p@30fps and for video calling it provides a VGA front camera. The HTC device has a more sophisticated back camera of 8MP with autofocus, LED flash, geo tagging and 1.4 µm pixel size, but it has the same video recording capabilities as its rival. However, the front camera is better at 1.6MP.
The Nokia Lumia 625 costs $200, while the HTC 8XT is $30 cheaper.
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