Upvote Redstone for L635 (512MB)

[kulf]

Do your math...
Cost:
$1 [one dollar] + ((months you signed up for with the contract) * (monthly fee))
"Benefit":
$200 [two hundred] gift card.

So if you signed up for a nice 24 month contract at $50 [fifty] a month, your cost is $1201 [one thousand two hundred and one dollars]. Minus that gift card (why don't they give you cash? Because it's not worth as much as cash, as you have to spend it in their shop on their conditions) - you still end up with an iPhone plus contract that costs more than a grand. If your contract runs longer or costs even more than fifty quid per month, the phone costs even more.

Talk about TCO.

 

[Texas7412]

really??? these phones wont even get windows 10 and you are vouching for redstone. very soon insiders doors will too close for the 512mb ram handsets. lol XD

Really? My 635 rm-1078 512mb got redstone from microsoft without even enrolling in the insider

 

[Cryio]

My mom's 635 512 MB got RS1 as well, but by that time it was already on TH2 via Insider Preview. I left Insider and was surprised to see RS1 downloaded by itself.
The phone runs fine, better than on TH2, but apps do crash ocassionaly. FB is a no go and Messenger works ... sometimes.