I finally took a decision, bought the 925 on HSN just a few minutes back. $199 + some tax + $25 extended warranty
What was holding me back?
- lack of expandable memory (though HSN incorrectly states that)
- no sooner I buy it, Nokia / T-Mobile will declare it EOL
(happens with me all the time, especially stock markets)
Why I bought it? --> my usage is more for phone and office used (documents, emails and such), podcasts, not much use it for games, photos and videos
- even though I have judt three games, some utility apps, some podcasts, no maps .. I don't have much space left on the 810. The 'other' is taking away about 2gb!
- I do want a notification center and since 810 will not get the 8.1 upgrade, I guess I can't have it.
- whereas I am not big into photos and videos, the photos on 810 aren't the best. Video is actually better than my pana digital camera.
- the price at HSN is good for a new phone and I hope baring damage or stolen, I can keep it for at least till Dec 2016.
- it has a professional look rather than the street sleek Nokia phones (though I do love the bright colors).
- regarding the extended HSN guarantee, someone on a different post had mentioned that it does not cover accidental damage, however when I read into the details, it does seem to cover. Now whether HSN will really honor it or not, I don't know that. But the way I decided to go with it was - $25 for 24 months ... ~$1/ month ...that is ok I guess for some kind of protection.
What am I going to do with the 810?
- keep it as a back up phone incase if 925 runs into issue
- give it to wife or mom
- load it with games, so that daughter can use it as a games console
- use it as a Bluetooth media player in my basement.
- looked at Craigslist, didn't see many ads but a few were selling for like $80 or so. Microsoft store was giving about $45. No point in trading it in.
[update]:
Last night called ATT and told them the plan I had with T-Mobile and asked them to give me a competitive one - for $45 more they had a plan that was slightly weaker than the T-Mobile plan ( in terms of data ) ... so that was also a key point to not move to ATT to just have the 1020. Also wasn't sure how the unlocked 1020 would work out in future with respect to upgrades. A friend of mine bought 920 unlocked from Amazon reseller and it went bad in 2 months - he gave it to his daughter for using it as a Zune!