The release of the Lumia 650 marks Microsoft’s latest attempt to become a dominant player in the smartphone market.
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Microsoft Lumia 650, company’s latest mid-budget Windows 10 smartphone has been announced. Blended with sophisticated design and functional features, Lumia 650 provides users with the best of Microsoft’s productivity and security, all wrapped in a lovely slim package. “It also features an 8 MP rear camera (featuring Rich Capture), a 5 MP front camera, a 5” 720p AMOLED display, and 16 GB of internal storage, making it a fairly premium phone, with the exception of the chipset. The Lumia 620 features a 5-inch OLED display, weighs 122 gms and is 6.9 mm thick. The handset is equipped with a 16GB of inbuilt storage that can be expandable storage up to 200GB Via microSD card. Various leaks and rumors on the Microsoft Lumia 650 have surfaced online. As a successor to Windows Phone, Windows 10 Mobile is tightly aligned with its broader Windows 10 operating system (OS) for PCs, as the company looks to unify platforms with a single OS.
The Snapdragon 212 is in charge of powering Windows 10 (but no Continuum), and its quad-core Cortex-A7 CPU clocked at 1.3GHZ – the sole difference to the S210 in the Lumia 550.
It has been released for select European markets and will start selling from February 18.
There were rumours of a new Windows 10 Mobile handset from Microsoft in mid-January, and those rumours have now been confirmed. It features all major connectivity options such as 4G LTE, 2G, 3G, Bluetooth v4.1, NFC, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n, and GPS with A-GPS, GLONASS, Beidou in addition to an FM radio receiver. Note that the Lumia 650 DualSIM is already listed on the company’s official website for India without pricing and availability details.
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The Microsoft Lumia 650, comes in matte white or black and is now available in selected countries in Europe, with no call on USA availability.
