Microsoft officially released Lumia 650

Microsoft finally released the Lumia 650 which is a cheap smartphone customized for enterprises. It is equipped with Windows 10 Mobile system and sold at $199.

lumia

The analysts in mobile industry assumed Lumia 650 might the final smartphone for Lumia series. Lumia brand is obtained in 2013 when Microsoft acquired Nokia.

Lumia 650 applies a 5-inch screen, a 8 mega-pixel camera. It comes with 8GB storage, plastic shell and removable battery. Microsoft promised that some features of Lumia 650 are integrated w ith Office 365 cloud service.

However, Lumia 650 is not equipped with the two most important Windows 10 Mobile features: Windows hello and PC Continuum.

Microsoft smartphone accounts for 3% in the global smartphone market. It sold only 4.5 million Lumia device in 4Q 2015, while Apple sold 75 million iPhone devices. According to the estimation of analysts, the total sales volume of Lumia mobile only reached 110 million units.

Microsoft Windows mobile business is flat. The developers prefer to launch applications for Applie iOS and Google Android systems.

Uber teamed up with Microsoft for helping it to narrow the gap with its rivals. Hulu just released a new application that could be run on Windows 10 desktop, iPad and smartphone.

At the same, some media reported that Microsoft is working on the release of another smartphone which is led by Panos Panay.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong>