Lumia smartphones, much like Windows phone itself, has seen better days.
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From now on, it’s believed that Bill Gates and co are focusing their efforts on a Surface Phone, to match its tablet and laptop range.
It is unclear if the carrier is simply waiting for the update to pass through their approval process before reaching older Lumia phones or if Microsoft has delayed the update from reaching the carrier until late February.
Microsoft is also not expected to hold a special event for the launch of the Lumia 650, and instead, folks who may be interested in learning more about the phone’s pricing and availability will likely be able to do so by going to the company’s official blog. Lumia 650 is said to have a 5-inch 720p display which will be powered by a Snapdragon 210 or 212 processor with 1GB RAM.
While the video in question doesn’t contain any reference to the yet-to-be announced device, its the description accompanying the video where the Lumia Phone X was mentioned as one of the four devices that now support Continuum – the other three being Lumia 950/XL and Acer Jade Primo.
The Microsoft Lumia 950 and Microsoft Lumia 950 XL already had a lot to offer when they were both released but the smartphones are not selling as well as Microsoft would like it to.
Leaks come in many forms and some of them come from very unlikely sources.
What are your thoughts on Microsoft about to shut down the Lumia franchise?
In the storage department, the smartphone is said to pack 8 GB as inbuilt storage which can be expanded through a microSD memory card.
Although the company hasn’t provided a change log for this new version of the Maps app, the update actually brings a new live tile that also features transparency, so it’ll definitely look good on your Windows 10 Mobile Start screen.
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There isn’t any word of when the Microsoft Lumia 650 will be launched in the United States.
