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The 950’s are the first Windows phones to be offered with super-crisp 2560 x 1440 Quad HD displays, and the XL’s doesn’t disappoint.
We were a little disappointed that its battery life isn’t as good as we’d expected despite its size – with heavy use we did get one day of life from it, but not the multi-day life we’d experience with previous Windows phones. We can’t think of anything that Microsoft missed, and it’s also heartening to see that Redmond still believes in offering a premium device with expandable storage and a removable battery, features increasing rare on other vendor’s phones. It also has dual SIM slots (an uncommon feature for a phone sold in Canada) allowing you to use one device for both a business and personal line. Along with the top-end SoC, the 950 XL has a 5.7-inch WQHD AMOLED display, 3 GB of RAM, 32 GB of storage (with a microSD slot), a big 3,340 mAh removable battery, a USB Type-C port, wireless charging, and a 20 MP camera. In fact, when it comes to its hardware specifications, Microsoft almost threw everything and the kitchen sink into its latest phone. To deal with the 810’s notorious heat output, Microsoft has engineered the 950 XL with a heat pipe, a novel solution to what could have been a significant problem.
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The 950 XL, though, uses the same Snapdragon 810 chip found in premium Android phones like the Nexus 6P and Xperia Z5. Previous high-end Lumia’s were always slightly behind the performance curve, utilizing older SoCs than the best available. The 950 XL is also the first Windows phone that is fully competitive with its current rivals.
Suffice to say, the launch of the 950’s in Canada is very welcome news. As for premium devices, the last high-end Lumia was 2014’s 930, a phone that never made it to Canada. The last Windows Phone launched in Canada was the mid-range Lumia 640 XL (which like the 950’s, is only sold by Microsoft here) and the last Lumia to be sold by a carrier was the 830 last year. The Lumia 950 XL (along with its smaller brother, the Lumia 950) is the first new phone from Microsoft available in Canada for some time, and they are also the first premium Windows phones released anywhere in over a year. Unlocked model directly from Microsoft for $849 It is also one of the first phones to run Microsoft’s latest mobile OS, Windows 10.ĥ.7-inch Quad HD ClearBlack AMOLED 2560 x 1440 (518 PPI)Ģ0 MP 1/2.4-inch sensor, f/1.9, Carl Zeiss 6-lensġ, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 17, 20, 28, 38, 40 Well, after a long wait that device has come in the form of the new Lumia 950 XL, a premium device that can go toe-to-toe with the best Android and iOS phones on the market. It was also a decidedly mid-range device when what Microsoft needed was a high-end halo device to showcase what Windows Phone could do. Even though we did consider it one of the best business smartphones of 2014, especially for those heavily invested in Microsoft’s applications and services, we were also acutely aware of the application gap between Windows and other mobile OS’s. Last year we looked at the Nokia Lumia 830, one of the last Windows Phones to be made available through carriers in Canada.
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Each update to the OS improved it, yet without third-party developer support, interest in Windows Phone continued to shrink. Despite repeated promises, application developers never really got on board, and it became a vicious cycle. Unfortunately Windows Phone never really caught on, especially in Canada.Įven after successive updates, and famed cellphone vendor Nokia making Windows Phone its OS of choice (before it was acquired by Microsoft) the mobile OS from Redmond just couldn’t seem to put a dent in the combined Apple and Google mobile juggernaut. Instead, the home screen consisted of Live Tiles, a UI paradigm that has now spread to almost every corner of the Microsoft ecosystem. The first version of this OS, Windows Phone 7, launched in 2010 and took a completely different approach to the rows of icons and widgets found on Android and iOS devices. Microsoft’s Windows Phones has always marched to the beat of its own drum.