Carphone Warehouse announced at the weekend that they are taking pre-orders for the new Lumia 925 flagship phone.

The retailer are offering contracts over 24 months with Orange, EE's 4G Network, 02, T-Mobile and Vodafone.

The Orange deal is £29.99 up front and £32 per month with unlimited minutes and texts and 500MB of mobile data. If you want a 4G contract you can get the phone for nothing but pay £41 per month with unlimited calls and texts with 1GB of data.

Other free phone tariffs include a T-Mobile, Vodafone or Orange contract for £37 per month. Pre order customers get a wireless charging kit and phone case included, free.

The Lumia 925 follows after the successful 920, running Windows 8. Specs are closely matches – including the Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 dual core processor clocked at 1.5ghz with 1GB of Ram, 16Gb storage, 4G connectivity and NFC.

The display is a 4.5 inch AMOLED touchscreen with 1280×720 pixel resolution at 332 pixels per inch. Nokia's Clearblack and PureMotion HD+ technology are included. Battery power is rated at 2,000mAh.

The new phone may mirror the 920 in many regards, but the body is slimmer and lighter and is built from a combination of aluminum and polycarbonate. It weighs only 139g and is 8.5 mm thick. They are offers various colours, including grey, black and white and you can buy various wireless charging enabled cover panels in bright colours.

The Lumia 925 has a 8.7 megapixel PureView camera which is based around Carl Zeiss optics and has optical image stabilisation to help remove any blurring of images when the photo is taken. It has a f/2.0 aperture and dual LED flash. Video capture is 1080p and it performs great under low light conditions also.

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