After
launching the high-end Lumia 950 and Lumia 950XL last month, Microsoft has launched the affordable Lumia 550 smartphone in India. The Windows 10
smartphone is priced at Rs 8,909 on Snapdeal.
The Lumia
550, not surprisingly, is the most affordable Windows 10 smartphone in
Microsoft’s lineup. Unlike
aforementioned high-end smartphones though, the Lumia 550 misses out on
features like Continuum, and Windows Hello.
Microsoft
Lumia 550 specifications and features:
The smartphone flaunts a 4.7-inch HD LCD
display at a pixel density of 315ppi. It is powered by a rather dated Qualcomm
Snapdragon 210 quad-core chipset clocked at 1.1GHz and paired with Adreno 304
GPU and 1GB of RAM. Also on offer is 8GB internal storage, which can be
expanded up to 200GB using a microSD card.
On the
photography front, the smartphone is equipped with a 5-megapixel f/2.4 rear
camera with LED flash and 720p video recording capabilities. Up front is a
2-megapixel f/2.8 selfie camera with 480p video recording capabilities.
The Lumia
550 also features a FM Radio, and a 2,100mAh battery that Microsoft claims is
good enough for up to 16 hours of talktime and up to 28 days on standby mode.
Connectivity options include single-SIM card slot, 4G LTE support, Wi-Fi 802.11
b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.1 and GPS.
On paper
Microsoft’s Lumia 550 is a tad
disappointing especially when you consider the dated processor, 1GB of RAM and
a single SIM card slot. When you take this into consideration, Microsoft’s choice of the price tag is quite baffling.
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