I'm in a similar position. I'd buy the 930 in a flash if it wasn't for a few niggles that make it not quite perfect and that perhaps the 940 might fix. Then again we may not know if the 940 is the perfect (or near perfect) Lumia until a year later. There are also Windows 10 issues to iron out. I haven't looked at the phone version much, but the desktop preview I use as a developer to see what's coming up and frankly it's way off release quality.
Anyway, 930 can be had for around ?220 - ?250 in the UK now which is not bad considering it's flagship. Then again a little less and could get the 640 or 640XL which are new, decent spec for the price, but they would be a compromise compared to the flagship.
Basically need to replace an antique Galaxy S2 that's utterly bricked now and I'm bored and somewhat frustrated with Android. I come from a Nokia background with only a couple of phones since the mid 90s that weren't Nokia, though I've not had a Lumia and thus Windows Phone, though have played with it and prefer the UI to Android. I'm also more tied to the Microsoft ecosystem than Google, not to mention mainly a Microsoft developer.
So need a phone now, so waiting for 940 is no go. Whatever I get though may be kept until the 940 or whatever is mature, so 630 compromise for a couple of years or 930 for not too much more? (which seems much nicer but has issues like poor battery life and overheating, though maybe not much of an issue). Battery life is important to me though as the old S2 struggled to last half a day especially if it's on 2G/3G, even with almost everything turned off and data limited. Though was also finding the latest Google app updates were a major cause for eating the battery. Seems they want phones to consume vast amounts of data all the time and depend on phones having bigger batteries and users to have larger data plans.
Hmmm decisions... :smile:
Anyway, 930 can be had for around ?220 - ?250 in the UK now which is not bad considering it's flagship. Then again a little less and could get the 640 or 640XL which are new, decent spec for the price, but they would be a compromise compared to the flagship.
Basically need to replace an antique Galaxy S2 that's utterly bricked now and I'm bored and somewhat frustrated with Android. I come from a Nokia background with only a couple of phones since the mid 90s that weren't Nokia, though I've not had a Lumia and thus Windows Phone, though have played with it and prefer the UI to Android. I'm also more tied to the Microsoft ecosystem than Google, not to mention mainly a Microsoft developer.
So need a phone now, so waiting for 940 is no go. Whatever I get though may be kept until the 940 or whatever is mature, so 630 compromise for a couple of years or 930 for not too much more? (which seems much nicer but has issues like poor battery life and overheating, though maybe not much of an issue). Battery life is important to me though as the old S2 struggled to last half a day especially if it's on 2G/3G, even with almost everything turned off and data limited. Though was also finding the latest Google app updates were a major cause for eating the battery. Seems they want phones to consume vast amounts of data all the time and depend on phones having bigger batteries and users to have larger data plans.
Hmmm decisions... :smile:
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