Nokia Lumia 625 v's iPhone 5s
Lucozade76
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On EE I was about to get the iPhone 5s for £47 as part of my new contract upgrade from T-Mobile. (networks irrelevant.)
Instead they persuaded me to take the Nokia Lumia 625 for free.
Did I make the right choice?
I have 14 days to change my mind.
Instead they persuaded me to take the Nokia Lumia 625 for free.
Did I make the right choice?
I have 14 days to change my mind.
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I use a Windows Phone and the only problem I find it the lack of quality apps. If you don't use that many apps it may not be an issue for you.
You have saved quite a lot of money!
The 625 is a darned good phone, and personally much prefer WP8 over iOS (I've yet to find a "killer app" on iOS, and the WP8 keyboard is leagues ahead of what iOS offers).
Catch is that the 625 is a relatively cheap phone - typically around £150. The iPhone 5S tends to start at around £500.
Hope you get at least 10gb of data with that deal.
Windows Phone is an excellent choice though, but there are much better premium windows phones available
Hopefully your priceplan has been dropped to a similar low end price?
1000 mins
Unlimted texts
1GB Data.
My 16 year old Son has a windows phone and said it's good but not for apps.
Hmmm
What to do.
Send it back, he took advantage of your ignorance of phone models.
That offer is available on the EE site for £18.99 a month with 4G...
1 GB £18.99 4G
1000 MIN /
Unlimited SMS
FREE PHONE
http://shop.ee.co.uk/mobile-phones/pay-monthly/nokia-lumia-625/details#choosePlanAnchor
For £29.99 you should be getting 5GB data and unlimited calls/texts or a better phone.
Agreed.
Plus it's not capped. But whatever they say to keep you amirite.
One thing that annoys me BIG TIME about Windows phones is that wretched Bing button and Microsoft's arrogant, condescending attitude towards users' complaints about it.
What do you mean by the Bing button, search?
That's really handy actually.
The search button on WP must be the least used button in mobile history. I mean no one would willing use Bing in the first place and to have it there as a permanent button is crazy.
Firstly, do you know that Apple now use Bing for search on iOS?
http://searchengineland.com/with-ios-7-siri-drops-google-for-bing-172110
Secondly, the search button gives you QR/barcode reading, OCR text capture, and a music utility as per Shazam. Local search is really handy too.
its more than fine for apps, which app are you needing to use? I've used windows phone for about 3 years now and never had an issue with an app I needed. They have all the apps I need.
You could get a 925 for the same price which is a nice and sleek looking phone, and a much higher end model.
Problem seems to be mainly with banking apps and of course Sky that seem to have an issue with WP, no SkyGo app or even plans for one.
Sky don't seem to want to be on half of the devices out there.
True, but least the majority of decent Android phones and iOS are covered.
Barclays, TSB, Lloyds Bank, RBS, NatWest all support Windows Phone, Santander are in the process of developing an app, as is HSBC,
Nationwide is always last with everything, they don't even have contactless payments yet.
You mean the search button that can be amended to use Google instead of Bing?
I changed the behaviour on my 1020 for a few days. Returned to bing - just looks nicer, gives different results, not necessarily any worse.
I don't really use the search button, although I do use bing, search results are a bit different but always get the things I need.
Believe it or not I asked for a phone with the camera in mind yet this camera is worse than on my Galaxy Ace 2 and that itself is a saucer of crap.
Trying to access Gmail is awful. I seem to be getting to open my mail offline. I can't see how to archive my mail which I am pedantic about doing.
There is a list of things I just don't like about it.
That aside I got this from Phones 4U.
It was an upgrade yet my 4G has not been activated and bearing in mind it's an upgrade I should have had the number transferred - but well over the 48 hrs and still no transfer so technically I have two contracts.
The deal was to give me £100 cash, but most that was to cover the buy-out so they owed me £2.50 or there abouts however again 'believe it or not' they did not have £2.50 in the shop so asked me to come back for it the next day 'if I wanted.'
I will be going back and leaving the phone there.
No matter what you want a phone for I personally would avoid the Nokia Lumia 625.