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Eye-poppingly colourful shells, Windows Phone’s live tiles and exclusive services certainly mark Nokia’s Lumia range out from the slew of smartphones adhering fast to the 'black slab' school of design and post-iPhone user interfaces consisting of rows of apps.

But for all the good notices taht the likes of the Lumia 900 garnered in the tech press, Lumia kits are yet to find favour with the mass market in anything like the same way as Samsung Galaxy handsets or the iPhone.

Can the Lumia 925 buck the trend and crack the mainstream? Find out in our review.

One of the most oft-heard criticisms of some earlier Lumia smartphones is that their plastic builds made them feel a bit cheap. Not so the Lumia 925.

Presumably in response to those catcalls from reviewers, the Lumia 925 features a robust metal frame while retaining the range’s hallmark polycarbonate plastic rear.

That means that it feels premium. But it also means Nokia hasn’t bulked up the handset unnecessarily, with the Lumia 925 coming in at a fighting-fit 139g.

Fire up the Lumia 925 and the phone’s 4.5-inch, 1280x768 resolution AMOLED display impresses from the get-go too. More of which later.

Newcomers to the Windows Phone OS that powers the Lumia 925 might be put off by its unfamiliarity. Don't let that happen.

Although Microsoft’s live tiles design deviates from the iOS-alike layout that once seemed set in stone, it’s actually a great operating system and one that's really easy to pick up.

The blend of metal and plastic gives the 925 a two-tone look at the rear, which may or may not butter your muffin. For the record, we like it.

Squarer than most smartphones, the Lumia 925 features three on-screen pressers at the foot of the screen, namely: back, start and search. All of which will be familiar if you’ve used any kind of Windows Phone before.

The device also packs three buttons on the right, taking in a volume rocker, a dedicated camera button and ‘sleep/wake’.

At 8.5mm thick, this is a lot thinner than the 10.7mm Lumia 920 and is much more comparable – if not quite as svelte - as the likes of the iPhone and Samsung’s top-end Galaxy kits.

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The Samsung Galaxy S4 is a smartphone that transcends borders and breaks down language barriers.

This is made possible by the superb S Translator app that comes pre-installed with the Galaxy S4.

Capable of translating dozens of widely spoken international languages in real-time, including French, Spanish and Chinese – S Translator is the perfect companion to help in your travels abroad.

Whether you're going on holiday or a business trip, S Translator helps you out in those inevitable stumbles with the local tongue.

Translating is as easy as typing out a word or phrase, which the app automatically interprets and displays in the bottom half of the screen.

To make conversations equally simple, S Translator also offers voice translation, so you can just speak what you want to say to the handset and S Translator will speak it out for you in the other language.

This is handy for any number of situations, be it responding to something you don't understand or even getting directions.

What's really great about S Translator, though, is that it works in tandem with another brilliant built-in application of the Galaxy S4 called the Optical Reader.

This allows you to scan text from a physical source – such as a book or a sign - using the S4's rear-mounted camera, and translate it on the spot to another language thanks to S Translator integration.

The Optical Reader also scans and translates individual words in real-time and provides an audio playback for the pronunciation for each word, and even gives you a definition of the word if you're not quite sure what it means.

With S Translator and Optical Reader on board, the Samsung Galaxy S4 truly makes communicating and understanding foreign languages as easy as pie.