To celebrate the festival of Holi.
By Dileep Thekkethil
BENGALURU: Microsoft has come up with an exciting festival offer for this year’s Holi, announcing a cash back offer of Rs.7000 on premium Lumia devices – 830 and 930. The offer will come into effect starting from tomorrow in all retail stores in India.
Lumia 830 and 930 will be available for Rs.21,800 ($350)and Rs.31,600 ($508), respectively, after the cash back offer, which otherwise would have cost Rs.28,799 ($463) and Rs.38,649 ($622), respectively. The offer will be subjected to the availability of stock.
Lumia 830 is powered by a 1.2 GHz quad-core processor coupled with 1 GB RAM. The phone has an inbuilt storage capacity of 16 GB upgradeable to 128 GB using microSD card slot. The camera department of Lumia 830 has a 10 megapixel autofocus camera, capable of shooting full HD videos. The phone has a 2,200mAh battery. Microsoft is also offering 15 GB cloud storage of Lumia 830 in SkyDrive. The phone also has full connectivity features including 4G LET.
On the other hand, Lumia 930 is the company’s high-end smartphone and has a Full HD touchscreen display with a 2.2 GHz Snapdragon 800 Quad-core processor coupled with 2GB RAM. The device has an inbuilt storage capacity of 32GB and is not expandable. One of the key attractions of the device is its whopping 20MP Carl Zeiss camera that can capture true life images. It also has a 1.2 MP selfie camera with a wide lens. Other than the general connectivity features, the device also features 4G LTE.
Both these devices were launched on October 2014 in India and runs Windows 8.1 mobile operating system.