On Wednesday I received my long awaited phone upgrade. I initially got a Nokia (now branded Microsoft) Lumia 520 in December 2013 and it was a good phone, but met a watery death a few months ago and was then replaced with a cheap £20 Lumia 610. That was a real step back as the 610 was a year older than my already aging 520 and ran WP 7.8 rather than 8.1.
I was not very happy!
But it did the job and thankfully at the start of the week I was able to order an upgrade from Three. I knew it would be another Windows Phone as I love the OS and went for the better of the two available (535 and 640).
Anyway, I'm not going to go into specifications and all that because that isn't really important to me. All I know is it is a fantastic phone which I'll be happy to use for the next 23 months (upgrade 1 month before 24 month contract expires).
It'll be interesting to see how Windows Phone 10 is when it is released for my model. I'm happy with 8.1 for now though, as a phone is the only platform that 8.1 is actually GOOD on.
The main benefit of the 640 for me over something like the Samsung Galaxy S6 (which did enter my mind a few times) is that the monthly cost with a 600 minute/unlimited texts is only £19, which would be over £40 for an S6.
I was not very happy!
But it did the job and thankfully at the start of the week I was able to order an upgrade from Three. I knew it would be another Windows Phone as I love the OS and went for the better of the two available (535 and 640).
Anyway, I'm not going to go into specifications and all that because that isn't really important to me. All I know is it is a fantastic phone which I'll be happy to use for the next 23 months (upgrade 1 month before 24 month contract expires).
It'll be interesting to see how Windows Phone 10 is when it is released for my model. I'm happy with 8.1 for now though, as a phone is the only platform that 8.1 is actually GOOD on.
The main benefit of the 640 for me over something like the Samsung Galaxy S6 (which did enter my mind a few times) is that the monthly cost with a 600 minute/unlimited texts is only £19, which would be over £40 for an S6.
[this post was last edited: 11/14/2015-08:06]
