UjSizzle:

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Feraz:
Choi!!! I just saw the Lumia 640XL y'all have been saying. The phone make sense die. . . Uj_sizzle, you may want to reconsider getting a Lumia 830. . .

when I first heard about the Lumia 640xl, I checked the specs. Saw nothing special. When I saw people waiting for its release,I rechecked to see if I missed anything. Now that I see your comment, I was forced to comment(having rechecked again): I see absolutely nothing special about this phone. I mean what feature does it have that makes you all excited? The camera? The Lumia 830 has a 10mp camera too (with 16gb internal storage to 640XL's 8gb)

http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/reviews/microsoft-lumia-640-xl-dual-sim-review-bigger-isnt-always-better-680311?site=classic

orimion:
when I first heard about the Lumia 640xl, I checked the specs. Saw nothing special. When I saw people waiting for its release,I rechecked to see if I missed anything. Now that I see your comment, I was forced to comment(having rechecked again): I see absolutely nothing special about this phone. I mean what feature does it have that makes you all excited? The camera?

http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/reviews/microsoft-lumia-640-xl-dual-sim-review-bigger-isnt-always-better-680311?site=classic

LOL. . .don't mind me. . .thought the camera was awesome till I checked again and saw that it is not pureview. . .

Oh, na dual SIM sef, I think I'll pass. . .

LOL at rechecked again. . .

Pls i have an xbox 360 game console nd intend buyin some games fifa 15 and call of duty advance warfare from ebay.bt it look xpensive to my buget.pls is some i can buy original fairly use of dis games in nigeria pricisely benin city @ 2k.pls if anybody get idea regardin dis mata mak him hala me for here.drop number

How do I update my whatsapp to get the voice call option? I updated it from the store but I still didn't see the call option.

Luckygurl:
How do I update my whatsapp to get the voice call option? I updated it from the store but I still didn't see the call option.

The feature is not yet on WP but coming soon.

UjSizzle:

Over dread o. But the 830 looks more beautiful
Read the 640 will be released next month. I'll wait to read the hands-on review first.

Well, the battery is 3000mah plus the 13 mp camera, it's still quite better.
Also note that there is 640 and 640xl.

UjSizzle:

You ordered from Amazon?

Yeah, from Amazon. They were having a sale when got it, hence the price.

Cvesta:
The Shipping Is Pretty Cheap If $9 Is All It Cost.Hw Long Did It Take To Arrive And What Does Shoptomydoor Charge To Signup?

It is free to sign up and they have excellent customer service and update you as your package is in transit. Normally, it takes 2 weeks tops, from the day it was shipped, to get to my house. But my last shipment was delayed cos of the elections and spent almost 3 weeks cos it was being delayed by customs here.

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Elxandre:

How many days did it take?

Takes 10 business days or 2 weeks approx at most. But like I mentioned earlier, my last shipment took longer to be delivered cos of elections.

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Feraz:
Like I said earlier, they could not repair the phone, heck, they even destroyed some components. When I gave them my phone to repair, the screen was good but now, it is not even showing anything, the charging port area is somewhat bent and when plugged to a source, there's light at the button but it does not read even when plugged to a system. I do not even know if the screen is still good. I need thorough check up of the phone of which I was disappointed visiting CV.

What am I even saying?

Please, explain what you did. Do you know if I can deliver my phone to a repair centre in USA at this amount? Also, do they ship from China?

I don't know much about shipping from Nigeria to abroad cos I have done that before. I usually do the other way round and yes, they say they ship from China but I haven't tried that. I usually get my goods from the US. Kinda prefer their market.

Elxandre:

The feature is not yet on WP but coming soon.

I see!!
Still finding it a bit difficult understanding how this phone works though.
Thanks!!

Luckygurl:


I see!!
Still finding it a bit difficult understanding how this phone works though.
Thanks!!

Ok.
Welcome to the platform.
You are free to ask questions about stuff you don't understand.

henryskywalker2003:


Takes 10 business days or 2 weeks approx at most. But like I mentioned earlier, my last shipment took longer to be delivered cos of elections.

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Tempting.
I wonder if I'll get it in Ondo.

Ok. I know I said I will do a review of this phone but I have been so busy lately. So, this is just my first impressions about the phone and Windows Phone platform.

Coming from Android, I was kinda underwhelmed by Windows Phone. Although, I expected that and I know they are still growing and improving on the platform. I noticed quite a few quirks that anyone from Android usually takes for granted but is lacking on Windows. I am trying to make the best out of it and currently tweaking and customizing it to fit my needs and I have installed the Denim update as well hoping to see much improvement, but alas, I'm yet to see any. Anyways, these are a few things I find annoying so far on the 635.

1. Immature Notification Menu. The notification menu is quite basic by any means on the 635. When you get a mail, message, whatsapp, telegram etc. It pops up in the notification menu. But the thing I find quite weird is that, if I ignore the notification and go straight to the app that received the notification. The notification still remains, long after I have attended to it. I find that inconsistent. Again there are only 4 slots to add switches to on the notification menu and I find it weird again that they skipped some important switches like the mobile data switch, and instead, tucked it away in the settings.

2. Being Miserly With Features. Another thing I noticed is that MS removes some basic features in the the low and medium end devices and makes it available in the high end ones. Take for instance, the 635 lacks the equalizer app which is basically a software feature and not a hardware one but MS makes it available on the high end devices. This is quite unlike what you get on Android where the cheapest China device rocks the same software features common to Android that the high end ones have.

3. Bluetooth: Now, the bluetooth on the device works as it should be. But the weird thing here is to use it, one must first put it on from either the notification menu or from the settings, otherwise, it won't show up among the options when you want to share a file. Even Symbian in the old days implemented this basic feature.

4. Weird way of attaching files to mails. Now this was one of the weirdest. I was composing a mail using the default email app and when I tried sending a document, I pressed the attach button and instead of giving me options of what kind of files I intend to send just like it normally do on whatsapp and telegram, it instead went straight to the photo gallery. There was absolutely no way for me to attach the file from the email app. So, I tried the other way round of opening the file first with the Office app and then select share and imagine my surprise when it listed a couple of apps to use for it including the email app which I then selected and it attached it for me. Then I had to retype the email in the new box and send.

5. Very Buggy Contact linking. Coming from Android, we have taken for granted that contacts will ALWAYS be automatically managed. I mean, when was the last time anyone actually managed their contacts by themselves. When I moved from Symbian to Blackberry, I exported my contacts to a CSV file and added to my BB then with NO SINGLE ISSUE. When I was leaving BB, I synced my contacts with my PC's Outlook and then exported to a CSV which I imported into my google accounts again with NO ISSUE. Every single contact was automatically sorted and arranged perfectly. Now came the Windows phone. I tried the first option which was to link my google account with my microsoft account for automatic syncing. Now, I have read somewhere some years back that it was buggy and I was expecting it to be fixed by now. Unfortunately, it hasn't. So, I ended up having some contacts not showing up, those with more than 3 numbers had the excess numbers stored in the notes section of the contact. I removed it then went online to people.live.com and tried syncing it from there. No dice, same issue. I tried exporting from my google account and selected the option to export as a csv file for google account and then went back to people.live.com and tried importing it and selected the option of importing as a google csv. It was worse. It duplicated many of the contacts. I deleted the entire contacts and went back to google and exported as csv for outlook then went back and tried importing as csv from outlook. Then it worked.... or did it it told me that there were some duplicates that needs to be merged and asked me to run the duplicate checker. I did and it found duplicates that weren't duplicates at. It was actually trying to merge contacts with similar names despite the fact that they didn't contain the same numbers. for instance, Colins Eze was going to be merged with Eze Solomon Adebisi based on just that "Eze" contained in the two. So, I finally cancelled it and left it like that. I later noticed that quite a lot of my contacts were still missing. But half bread is better than none.

6. Poor multitasking. Windows phone doesn't multitask, or rather this one doesn't. What it does is to hibernate the app and when you come back to it, it then resumes it. In this case, some apps like UC browser reloads all the pages you left open while others like Opera, closes everything and you start from scratch. Telegram notifies you of new messages but it doesn't enter until you open the app and at that point, it starts to reload and says "connecting" at the top.

7. Fewer apps in the Store. Lol. No need to overflog this one.

8. No backlight sensor. On the Lumia 635, there is no backlight sensor so I can't set it to automatically adjust the screen's brightness when I am in a bright or dark place.


Now for the things I love

1. The screen is quite sharp and crisp despite not being a 720p screen. Nokia did a great job there as usual

2. Battery life is kinda average. I get to charge it once a day on average use. I do browse and chat but not as much as most people do. I listen to music a lot using my earpiece.

3. Live tiles. This is a great feature. I kinda wish that MS improve on it and down the line turn it into the notification menu instead of the half-baked one they currently have,

4.Offline Maps. This is one feature I missed from my Symbian days. I don't have to go online to get directions anymore like I used to do on Android.

5. Lovely interface. The interface is beautiful and is quite refreshing. Love the deep black background so much that I didn't bother adding a wallpaper. Although there is still some room for improvement.

6. The Lumia 635 feels kind solid. Yes, it is plastic but not the kind of soft plastic that you expect from Samsung and co. It feels quite sturdy and gives you the feeling that it can take some falls and leave no scratches on it.

Going through this thread just made me realise I've been under using(not soo sure of this) my lumia 520. I got it like two months ago and it's just been calls and browsing all this while.
I can't wait to go back to school so I'd connect to free Wifi and make the necessary updates.
Hoping to maximise usage from now.....

Hello Ujsizzle and everyone else contributing to this thread
I'd brb with my barrage of questions

Elxandre:

Ok.
Welcome to the platform.
You are free to ask questions about stuff you don't understand.

please I have a nokia lumia 635 locked to tmobile . I haven't been able to unlock it ,please how can I unlock it .

onatisi:
please I have a nokia lumia 635 locked to tmobile . I haven't been able to unlock it ,please how can I unlock it .

You should direct this question to henryskywalker2003.
He did something similar recently.

Elxandre:

Well, the battery is 3000mah plus the 13 mp camera, it's still quite better.
Also note that there is 640 and 640xl.

The 640xl with the 3000mah battery and 13mp camera(whose picture quality we know not) is over 5in. That's already a no-no for me. I don't want to cart around a phone that makes my hands suffer.

I don't like the way these guys release their phones.

Luckygurl:
Going through this thread just made me realise I've been under using(not soo sure of this) my lumia 520. I got it like two months ago and it's just been calls and browsing all this while.
I can't wait to go back to school so I'd connect to free Wifi and make the necessary updates.
Hoping to maximise usage from now.....

Hello Ujsizzle and everyone else contributing to this thread
I'd brb with my barrage of questions

Hi bebe We'll be waiting for those questions.

Elxandre:

You should direct this question to henryskywalker2003.
He did something similar recently.

ok thank you very much .

henryskywalker2003
Quite decent review.
However, I would point out that you should have bought a 1gb ram.
It would have given you better multitasking for sure.
Apps like whatsapp, telegram should run in the background but it's limited by the ram.
Uc browser looses it's progress codes of ram too
If you are using the latest 'redesigned' opera mini specially 'designed' for WP, you should know that thing is awkward, so don't blame no one for it's stupidity.

Some apps aren't available for 512 ram devices. In fact, you will end up with zero nice games on with a 512 ram with all the major games made for 1gb ram devices precisely.
The only truly nice hd game I've played on my 512 device is cross court tennis.

Also the data switch exists in denim. Just find it in settings.
I also find it weird that you have contacts sync issues. My hotmail works seamlessly. Maybe I have lesser contacts tho.

Did you see the feature on denim where you drag a tile into another tile and it becomes a folder? cool!

And did your phone come with the accessories? I see it's still packed.

UjSizzle:

The 640xl with the 3000mah battery and 13mp camera(whose picture quality we know not) is over 5in. That's already a no-no for me. I don't want to cart around a phone that makes my hands suffer.

I don't like the way these guys release their phones.

Are you that small?

Meanwhile, all these will change I believe with the arrival of W10. They don't want to release a flagship for now on an outgoing OS.

Elxandre:


Are you that small?

Meanwhile, all these will change I believe with the arrival of W10. They don't want to release a flagship for now on an outgoing OS.

Lol I'm not small. Just used to narrow devices

UjSizzle:

Lol I'm not small. Just used to narrow devices

Define "narrow devices"

Elxandre:
henryskywalker2003
Quite decent review.
However, I would point out that you should have bought a 1gb ram.
It would have given you better multitasking for sure.
Apps like whatsapp, telegram should run in the background but it's limited by the ram.
Uc browser looses it's progress codes of ram too
If you are using the latest 'redesigned' opera mini specially 'designed' for WP, you should know that thing is awkward, so don't blame no one for it's stupidity.

Some apps aren't available for 512 ram devices. In fact, you will end up with zero nice games on with a 512 ram with all the major games made for 1gb ram devices precisely.
The only truly nice hd game I've played on my 512 device is cross court tennis.

Also the data switch exists in denim. Just find it in settings.
I also find it weird that you have contacts sync issues. My hotmail works seamlessly. Maybe I have lesser contacts tho.

Did you see the feature on denim where you drag a tile into another tile and it becomes a folder? cool!

And did your phone come with the accessories? I see it's still packed.

Lol. Yeah, the only accessory it came with was a charger. I think this phone was meant to replace the Lumia 520. Then again, about the 512 ram thingy. I understand that the higher the ram the more fluid any phone works but on Android, even with 512 ram, the performance is much better than on Windows. True, you will still have issues when you open many apps but at the moment, the only apps I even use are telegram, whatsapp and a browser. Switching between any of these 3 is a pain in the bumbum . As for games, I am not even a mobile game person so no loss there for me. And you are right about the data switch being in Denim. Just found that now after I read your post. So, one less annoyance to worry about. Although, I am still restricted to only 4 switches. The new folder feature is a nice addition especially if you have lots of app tiles that fill up your start screen.

The phone is out of the box a long time since. Those pics were the ones I managed to upload before I dozed off. Here are the rest of them pics.

More pics. Putting the unlock code given to me by AT&T.

Mr. Shield 3 in 1 pack screen protector that I bought along with the phone.

Elxandre:

Tempting.
I wonder if I'll get it in Ondo.

They ship to ANYWHERE in Nigeria. Once your shipment arrives, they make use of Red Star Express for local deliveries.

onatisi:
please I have a nokia lumia 635 locked to tmobile . I haven't been able to unlock it ,please how can I unlock it .

I don't know if tmobile unlocks for non-customers like AT&T does but you can check out their phone support and unlock page on their website.

Elxandre:

Tempting.
I wonder if I'll get it in Ondo.

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henryskywalker2003:


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