Nokia announced discounts on its latest Lumia 925 and Lumia 625 buyback offers

By Vijay @ 06:02pm

Nokia has extended the buyback scheme it had started with the Lumia 520 and Lumia 620, and has now included the Lumia 925 and Lumia 625. The company claims to now offer up to Rs 10,000 discount on the Lumia 925 and up to Rs 7,000 discount on the Lumia 625 when customers trade in their old smartphones. Under the scheme, the Lumia 925 is available for Rs 28,529 and the Lumia 625 for Rs 14,919. In reality however, the discounts are much lower.

The said discounts are exaggerated and are given on the phone’s MRP, which is much more than the MOP of these phones. Nokia mentions the MRP of the Lumia 925 to be Rs 38,529 while in India the phone was actually launched at an MOP of Rs 33,499. Similarly, the Lumia 625 was launched at Rs 19,999 and is already available for about Rs 16,000 at popular online retail stores. So the effective discount for exchanging an old smartphone against a new Lumia 925 or Lumia 625 phone would be Rs 5,000 and Rs 2,000 respectively instead of Rs 10,000 and Rs 7,000 as highlighted by the company.

Nokia starts buyback offer on Lumia 520 and Lumia 620 in INDIA

By Vijay @ 05:31pm

In our previous article I mentioned buyback offer by Sony, now Nokia has launched a buyback scheme on two of its most affordable Windows Phone 8 smartphones – the Lumia 520 and the Lumia 620 in India. The Finnish company is offering great discount deals on both the phones under this new exchange offer.

Those interested in buying these handsets can avail a minimum discount of Rs 4,000 on a brand new Lumia 520 which is currently priced for Rs 11,200 and a minimum Rs 6,000 off on the purchase of a new Lumia 620 handset which costs Rs 16,000 under the offer. This is a good strategy from Nokia as its most affordable Windows Phone smartphones will now be available for Rs 8,200 and Rs 10,000 respectively.

Prior to this, brands like Apple, Samsung and BlackBerry had also launched similar offers on their handsets, and received a great response for the same.

 

Comparisons: Nokia Lumia 625, Lumia 720, Lumia 620, Lumia 520

By Vijay @ 10:11am

 

Continuing Nokia’s efforts of having some of the best entry level smartphones ever, the Nokia Lumia 625 with its gigantic 4.7″ screen looks positively beastly against his brothers, the Nokia Lumia 720, 620 and 520.

Check out below, both devices are in the same 62x close family

Despite having a large screen, it’s slimmer than the 620, and 520. Possibly by having that larger footprint to space out components, whilst accommodating the larger battery.

• 625 – 9.15mm
• 620 –  11mm
• 520 – 9.9mm
• 720 – 9mm.

The 720 and 625 are quite similar in height but the 625 utilities the space better. A view of the home screen doesn’t help the 720 here because it makes it look like the screen is smaller what those black edges around the tiles, as well as no notification pop up at the top of the 720 to define the top edge of the screen.

 Source: noknok