Nokia Freebees (Lumia 830/930)

Simian · 25 Nov 2014 at 10:29

Just a heads up to anyone thinking of joining the Beige Side and going 'Windows 'Phone' 8.1' before the end of the year!...

You also get the chance to order £100odd quids worth of goodies...

Nice Interlink man just delivered them today!!

They had run out of Orange!

Portable Wireless Speaker MD-12 - RRP £40 (can be bought for £30)

Didn't know it was Magnetic!?!?...

(uses the resonance of the surface/container for extra base!)

Pairs with NFC and from what I've heard sounds rather good, can dance around the desk a bit when pushed, but Bassey!!

Not tried it yet as it's charging!

Portable Wireless Charging plate DC-50 - RRP £70 (can be bought for £40)

I've read it can just about do 2-off full charges of the 830, and about 1-off charge on the 930, it takes its time charging the phones as it's only avout 750mAh, but as a boost when needed that doesn't matter!, and the Lumia 830 is proving it's battery lasts aaaages with the 'Battery Sense' program on the phone!, works so much better than Google and Snapdragon's power manager on the Nexus 4 I had previously!

Not tried it yet as it's charging!

£100odd quids worth of goodies free!!!

Helios1234 · 25 Nov 2014 at 11:06

That's the same deal they had when the phone was first released. At the time, they ran out of the bundle fairly quickly so I'm surprised the offer keeps coming back on. Still that's no bad thing!

Simian · 25 Nov 2014 at 11:31

I think they re-released the deal when the Lumia 830 was released last month! and included the 930 again for good measure!

ubersonic · 25 Nov 2014 at 11:50

Thanks dude, got these the other month with a 930 and had no idea the speaker was magnetic

Now my paperweight works on the noticeboard too hehe.

Space Monkey · 25 Nov 2014 at 12:03

Where do you order them for free? I haven't seen the deal mentioned anywhere?

PapaLazaru · 25 Nov 2014 at 12:09

Space Monkey said:
Where do you order them for free? I haven't seen the deal mentioned anywhere?

I saw this on the Voda site. I'm starting work with them on the 15th and am able to get a 50% discount on my bill. I'm just hoping I can bag this deal before it runs out. Looking at getting the 930 which will be a nice upgrade to my 520.

Space Monkey · 25 Nov 2014 at 12:11

Ah, so it's a contract thing, not available on sim only?

Simian · 25 Nov 2014 at 12:17

Nope! My 830 was SIM free... you just put your details and IMEI number into this website...

http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/mobile/campaign-wireless-bundle/

Took mine 2 weeks to arrive!!

*edit*

It's actually running till 14th Jan 2015...

Space Monkey · 25 Nov 2014 at 12:18

Just seen it on the official site.

What's not cool, is that everyone has put the prices of the 930 up now that the bundle is available! Especially Amazon, they had the 930 around £355-365 and now it's £419.99! :rolleyes:

Simian · 25 Nov 2014 at 12:22

That's the RRP...

I looked arround for my 830 as most places were selling it for the RRP... I then found it Sub-£300 on Carphonewarehouse.

Apart from messing me around with the delivery, it was a very nice find!!

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Lumia 930

CPW - £400, Tesco - £380...
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cu3ed · 25 Nov 2014 at 12:23

The free Speaker is actually pretty decent I found.

Space Monkey · 25 Nov 2014 at 12:30

Simian said:
That's the RRP...

I looked arround for my 830 as most places were selling it for the RRP... I then found it Sub-£300 on Carphonewarehouse.

Apart from messing me around with the delivery, it was a very nice find!!

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Lumia 930

CPW - £400, Tesco - £380...
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What I'm now not sure about is if you click the link from the MS site, it takes you to Amazon but for a Vodafone branded handset for £419.99, but you can still buy the other sim free versions for less on there, and the T&Cs state you must buy it from an authorized dealer, which Amazon is, so we should be able to buy the sim free version and still claim the package?

Simian · 25 Nov 2014 at 12:34

cu3ed said:
The free Speaker is actually pretty decent I found.

You're not wrong!!! I just had a play with it (it's now charged!)

Stuck it on the Fridge and Stuck a bit of Floyd through it!! ******* hell... Sounds really good!! I can now listen to music whilst I cook and still hear it over the extractor!!! :cool:

I'll get a video up when I can steal the wife's Lumia 620 (can't play music whilst recording video apparently!!

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Simian · 25 Nov 2014 at 12:35

Space Monkey said:
What I'm now not sure about is if you click the link from the MS site, it takes you to Amazon but for a Vodafone branded handset for £419.99, but you can still buy the other sim free versions for less on there, and the T&Cs state you must buy it from an authorized dealer, which Amazon is, so we should be able to buy the sim free version and still claim the package?

Carphonewarehouse isn't one of the 'Authorised' dealers from what I can see, but I still got them!!

and Tesco's is, as the 730 and 635 deals link to their site!!

Space Monkey · 25 Nov 2014 at 12:47

Cool, so it's now tempting me

thanks for the heads up too

How are you getting on with your 830, glad you got it?

Simian · 25 Nov 2014 at 13:31

Oh Yeah!!!

Coming from a Nexus 4 that would use 60% of it's battery by 2pm, to a phone that still says 70% when I get home at 6pm and I've not turned any of the notifications off like I had to on the Nexus!.

Okay there are a few apps I miss, Play Music for one, but I have a 64Gb card in the phone, plus the 16Gb internal, I can just stick a chunk of music on the card and listen to that!.

Here+ Maps is far better than Google Maps or Waze as it's off-line (apart from Traffic) and I've ditched my Garmin in favour of the phone!...

Love it!! Would recomend my mates join the Beige Side too!!

Night · 25 Nov 2014 at 13:43

Space Monkey said:
What I'm now not sure about is if you click the link from the MS site, it takes you to Amazon but for a Vodafone branded handset for £419.99, but you can still buy the other sim free versions for less on there, and the T&Cs state you must buy it from an authorized dealer, which Amazon is, so we should be able to buy the sim free version and still claim the package?

I got the 930 (Sim free) from Amazon last month just after the deal restarted and was able to claim the wireless pack no problem if that helps =)

Space Monkey · 25 Nov 2014 at 13:45

Simian said:
......Love it!! Would recomend my mates join the Beige Side too!!

Thanks, and every time you say the Beige Side, I get flashbacks of my old beige PC cases

Night said:
I got the 930 (Sim free) from Amazon last month just after the deal restarted and was able to claim the wireless pack no problem if that helps =)

Excellent, thanks

What do you think of your 930? What did you have before?

Space Monkey · 25 Nov 2014 at 13:48

I really wish the 930 had replaceable battery and a micro SD slot, would make the choice a lot easier? :confused:

Night · 25 Nov 2014 at 13:53

Moved to it from a Lumia 620 / 800 (the 620 was having no end of issues with the sd card near the end) its quite the size difference!

It's been fairly solid, I don't miss glance as much as I thought I would.

I did have an issue recently where no 3rd party apps were showing up in the notifications list and thus giving me updates e.g. Twitter.

However it randomly started working last week, for no real reason. The only other problem I have had is music stops randomly when I have headphones plugged in and you have to pause the song, close Xbox music and then re-launch it. Cant quite figure out what the issue is but its nothing major.

Other than that, its snappy, has a decent battery life (lasts a day easily) and has a gorgeous screen.

Oh I would also say if you use Here Drive on it then it will replace your radiators! It gets seriously warm.