<p style="text-align: justify;">Microsoft might have been late for the party but it certainly made an impact. It announced a number of products at its global event today including the well needed and anticipated Lumia smartphones. There was a time when Nokia had scattered its Lumia smartphones into various price segments but ever since Microsoft took over, it substantially slowed down the process of pushing out the number of devices. This transition is rightly done, so as to focus more on the software experience. Windows as a mobile platform has never been very popular but it finally seems that Microsoft is ready to make it shine.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The new Lumia smartphones will come in two flavours the Lumia 950XL and Lumia 950. The former, as the name suggests, is a large smartphone and it is like an amalgamation of the highly popular Lumia 1020 along with the Lumia 1520 only with a slightly smaller and much sharper display. It comes with a 5.7-inch AMOLED screen with a QHD resolution (2560x1440) which makes it the first ever Lumia smartphone with such a high resolution display.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The phablet comes with a brand new 20MP (1/2.4") camera sensor along with a Carl Zeiss f/1.9 lens and PureView software technology. It can also shoot 4K videos, has OIS (optical image stabilization) for sharper pictures and a three tone RGB-LED flash. The front camera also sounds impressive coming with a 5MP resolution and an LED flash.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" src="http://bw-image.s3.amazonaws.com/Continuum-dock-lumia.jpg" style="width: 800px; height: 400px;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Other promising features include wireless charging, something which makes life much easier. There is also a big 3,430mAH battery that should go easily for two days straight. The most impressive feature however, is the USB Type C connector which can make the Lumia 950XL into a full-fledged PC by handling three crucial tasks, data transfer, video out and of course charging. Yes, this pocket device can also be converted in a full Windows 10 PC along with the help of Microsoft’s Continuum feature and a display dock. The handset will be powered by a Snapdragon 810 octa-core chipset with 3GB of RAM and to keep away with the heating issues faced by this particular processor, a liquid cooling solution has been used which is also used in Microsoft's tablets. Pricing starts at $650 (Rs. 42,000) which doesn’t sound insane at all.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">The Lumia 950 is a more subtle handset with a 5.2-inch display, but has the same AMOLED display with a 2K resolution making slightly sharper than the XL. The 950 uses the same 20MP rear camera and a 5MP front minus the flash. The chipset used here is the Snapdragon 808 six-core processor along with 3GB of RAM which again sounds great for a Windows device. There is smaller 3,000mAh battery and just like the XL, the 950 can also be converted into a PC via the USB Type-C port and the display dock. The handset is said to start hitting stores in December with a price tag of $550 (Rs. 35,000).</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Microsoft also announced the Lumia 550 which will be catering to consumers who wish to experience Windows 10 Mobile on a more affordable platter. The handset has a very nominal price tag of just $139 (Rs. 9,000) will be arriving in December. The smartphone comes with rater low-end hardware including a 4.7-inch LCD display with a 720p resolution, a Snapdragon 210 quad-core 1.1GHz processor and 1GB of RAM, 8GB of storage which will be expandable via microSD card. In the camera department there is a 5MP rear camera and a 2MP camera in the front all topped up with 4G LTE support.</p>
