Having always had android phones I went in to Phones4U to look at the LG G3 but P4U don't sell LG phones any more - I know some years ago from working in phone sales that LG were notoriously unreliable, so I don't know if they still have above average problems or not but anyway...I had been fancying the idea of a Windows phone for a while and was completely won over by the 930.
I ordered from O2 as I'm still under contract with them.
3 days now with the Lumia 930 and the initial excitement has been tempered with apparent bugs and actual issues with the phone itself, "free accessory kit" charade aside.
First of all the phone has that much-reported pink-purple hue emanating from the bottom right corner that has been well documented. It's only faint, and tinkering with the colour settings helps, but it is not what I expect from a premium device. If I set the colour profile to Standard it's pink, there is no getting away from it and only by setting it to cool and the tint well towards green does it really help.
Not only that, it might be my imagination but I was impressed at how bright the screen was initially, yet now it doesn't seem as bright as it first was. I currently have it set on full brightness, it's a dull day so my room is rather dimly lit yet the phone doesn't look very bright. I've just compared it to my ?100 MOTO G and the G is noticably brighter, both on full brightness and with the same white-background app open.
Secondly the battery life is terrible. I can't get through a full day even on light use. This morning, after two hours of internet surfing via wi-fi at home, with the brightness on medium setting the battery dropped 50%. I used it more extensively, but not continuously, on the first couple of days, no video playing, no gaming, and I'm sat 6 foot away from my wi-fi hub and still could not get anywhere near a full day out of it.
I've found a few things buggy but the music player is a mess. I couldn't figure out how to transfer my music to the phone and when I did, the Xbox music app on the PC uploaded most of it to the cloud and nothing directly to the phone. To me, it seems that most people are likely to need a good selection of their music on their phone when there is no wi-fi connection. The vast majority of people listening to their music are not doing so via wi-fi when they are out and about.
I did it eventually by dumping everything into OneDrive. The music player can now read and play the files but not show the artwork. Not a big deal but not a premium phone experience either. Incidentally it seems to be incapable of playing anything that was uploaded to the cloud anyway, it says "Opening...." but just hangs.
My only other real gripe is I can't find a decent pull-case. I don't like the flips, I like those where I can just pull my phone out of the top, with or without a pull tab. It's either the cheap crap on ebay or the expensive Puhama stuff which is the dog's doodahs and worth it for an expensive phone IMO but could take over a month to arrive.
Overall though I'm now beginning to have my doubts about it. I guess all I can do is report the issue and see what happens.
I ordered from O2 as I'm still under contract with them.
3 days now with the Lumia 930 and the initial excitement has been tempered with apparent bugs and actual issues with the phone itself, "free accessory kit" charade aside.
First of all the phone has that much-reported pink-purple hue emanating from the bottom right corner that has been well documented. It's only faint, and tinkering with the colour settings helps, but it is not what I expect from a premium device. If I set the colour profile to Standard it's pink, there is no getting away from it and only by setting it to cool and the tint well towards green does it really help.
Not only that, it might be my imagination but I was impressed at how bright the screen was initially, yet now it doesn't seem as bright as it first was. I currently have it set on full brightness, it's a dull day so my room is rather dimly lit yet the phone doesn't look very bright. I've just compared it to my ?100 MOTO G and the G is noticably brighter, both on full brightness and with the same white-background app open.
Secondly the battery life is terrible. I can't get through a full day even on light use. This morning, after two hours of internet surfing via wi-fi at home, with the brightness on medium setting the battery dropped 50%. I used it more extensively, but not continuously, on the first couple of days, no video playing, no gaming, and I'm sat 6 foot away from my wi-fi hub and still could not get anywhere near a full day out of it.
I've found a few things buggy but the music player is a mess. I couldn't figure out how to transfer my music to the phone and when I did, the Xbox music app on the PC uploaded most of it to the cloud and nothing directly to the phone. To me, it seems that most people are likely to need a good selection of their music on their phone when there is no wi-fi connection. The vast majority of people listening to their music are not doing so via wi-fi when they are out and about.
I did it eventually by dumping everything into OneDrive. The music player can now read and play the files but not show the artwork. Not a big deal but not a premium phone experience either. Incidentally it seems to be incapable of playing anything that was uploaded to the cloud anyway, it says "Opening...." but just hangs.
My only other real gripe is I can't find a decent pull-case. I don't like the flips, I like those where I can just pull my phone out of the top, with or without a pull tab. It's either the cheap crap on ebay or the expensive Puhama stuff which is the dog's doodahs and worth it for an expensive phone IMO but could take over a month to arrive.
Overall though I'm now beginning to have my doubts about it. I guess all I can do is report the issue and see what happens.