07-12-2024, 04:06 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-12-2024, 04:10 PM by CambridgeWorks.)
Treated myself to a Motorola G75, offered mostly at lowest price £229, but ordered one from John Lewis at £229 then I saw it a couple of hours later at £206 on Amazon, one day only, expiring midnight, 10 hours later.
Anyway, after I had delivery confirmation I filled out the online price match on JL wepage and a couple of days later, it was accepted.
So, my 6+ year old Nokia 6.1 that was getting a bit slow and occasionally crashing was used to transfer a lot of the apps and data over to my new G75 via bluetooth. Sim swapped as well.
Took around 35-40 minutes for 30Gb data.
What a difference in swapping over phones in these last 6 years!
Spent a while customising my new phone, changing over the recommended settings to some that were more my style.
Only annoyance is the auto brightness setting reverts to a very dim minimum brightness screen at night and you need to go to top bar to reset brightness. Next use a minute or so later at night it is dim again. However, Without the auto feature ON, the screen will not change in sunlight.
Reason for mentioning this is, my Nokia was useful as a small illumination "torch" if I wanted to pay a visit at night. The G75 will still be, but needs fiddling with or use the very bright torch that might wake the xyl.
The G75 has 8gb ram and total storage 256gb, plus second slot for another sim or memory card. Like most today, no headphone jack and comes with just a usb charging lead, no charger. No problem as 1 or 2 spares here.
Currently looking for a case with slide across protector for the rather prominent array of lenses. Unfortunately, quite a few sellers describe these as fitting mine plus other models. This is false, as the others are 1 to 4mm smaller meaning it will not fit mine!
So far, really pleased with it and the pictures I took at Nene Valley Railway yesterday are superb. Plus, it evidently meets MIL-STD-810H and IP68.
It gets system and security updates for 5 and 6 years respectively. Pretty good I think.
Provided I don't write it off before then!
My old Nokia replaced a Samsung S3 that replaced my first ever smartphone, the HTC Wildfire that despite tiny size was ok at the time. Each replacement reason was the phone was getting ancient and slow. Bit like me!
My wife had a G30 around 10 months ago and for the price was pretty impressive. That is one big reason I bought my G75.
Rob
Anyway, after I had delivery confirmation I filled out the online price match on JL wepage and a couple of days later, it was accepted.
So, my 6+ year old Nokia 6.1 that was getting a bit slow and occasionally crashing was used to transfer a lot of the apps and data over to my new G75 via bluetooth. Sim swapped as well.
Took around 35-40 minutes for 30Gb data.
What a difference in swapping over phones in these last 6 years!
Spent a while customising my new phone, changing over the recommended settings to some that were more my style.
Only annoyance is the auto brightness setting reverts to a very dim minimum brightness screen at night and you need to go to top bar to reset brightness. Next use a minute or so later at night it is dim again. However, Without the auto feature ON, the screen will not change in sunlight.
Reason for mentioning this is, my Nokia was useful as a small illumination "torch" if I wanted to pay a visit at night. The G75 will still be, but needs fiddling with or use the very bright torch that might wake the xyl.
The G75 has 8gb ram and total storage 256gb, plus second slot for another sim or memory card. Like most today, no headphone jack and comes with just a usb charging lead, no charger. No problem as 1 or 2 spares here.
Currently looking for a case with slide across protector for the rather prominent array of lenses. Unfortunately, quite a few sellers describe these as fitting mine plus other models. This is false, as the others are 1 to 4mm smaller meaning it will not fit mine!
So far, really pleased with it and the pictures I took at Nene Valley Railway yesterday are superb. Plus, it evidently meets MIL-STD-810H and IP68.
It gets system and security updates for 5 and 6 years respectively. Pretty good I think.
Provided I don't write it off before then!
My old Nokia replaced a Samsung S3 that replaced my first ever smartphone, the HTC Wildfire that despite tiny size was ok at the time. Each replacement reason was the phone was getting ancient and slow. Bit like me!
My wife had a G30 around 10 months ago and for the price was pretty impressive. That is one big reason I bought my G75.
Rob
