MICROSOFT LUMIA 950 XL REVEIW


Microsoft launched its flagship windows phone namely Lumia 950XL in India which is priced @ 49,399/-. It is available is Black & White Shades.

DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY
The design of this phone is good. It has corning gorilla glass 4 on front and a plastic back and feels good in hands. It is slim at 8.1mm and weighs 165gms. It has 5.7 inch Quad HD AMOLED display of resolution 2560 x 1440 with 518ppi. The viewing angles and sunlight legibility of the display is great. It runs on windows tile based User Interface. The brightness of the screen is great. It also has Nokia's clear black display technology which is good.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITIES
It has 32GB of internal storage which is further expandable. The device features dedicated multimedia apps like google play music for songs and a stock gallery and a video player which are good. FM radio comes pre-installed. Connentivities like 2G, 3G speeds upto 21.1mbps download & upto 5.76mbps upload, 4G speeds upto 150mbps download & upto 50mbps upload, Wifi a/b/g/n/ac, Wifi dual band, Wifi direct, Wifi hotsopt, Bluetooth 4.0 LE, USB v3.1 (Type C reversible connector) and GPS & GLONASS come standard but also has NFC support. It has Iris Scanner, Gyroscope & Barometer sensors and sensor core and also has Microsoft Continuum Support (Turn your Big Screen to your phone by docking in ).

CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES
It has a 20MP Optically stabilized rear camera (1/2.4 inch sensor) Carl Ziess optics & Pureview technology with autofocus and triple-LED RGB flash which features Simultaneous image and video recording, Geo-tagging, Touch focus, Image stabilization, HDR etc. The camera clarity is pretty good overall. Daytime the images are Excellent and has fine details respectively but in the night is where the noise starts to become more visible and to get better details at night HDR mode images with bit of steady hands helps to produce slightly better images still image quality at night is quite good. It does 4K 2160p@30fps (after denim update) & 1080p@30fps video recording with video stabilization and stereo sound but lacks HDR having bit-rate of 48mbps for 4K mbps, 18mbps for Full HD and stores in mp4 format. The video recording clarity is Excelllent overall. Daytime the video clarity is Excellent and has fine details respectively but at night video clarity is quite good. It has a 5MP front facing camera for selfe's which does 1080p and clarity is pretty nice. 

SOFTWARE, HARDWARE & PERFORMANCE
It runs Microsoft Windows phone 10(OS) out of the box.  It has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 (MSM8994) 64-Bit SOC (System On Chip) running a Octa-Core processor which is a combination of a Quad-Core processor clocked at 2 GHZ (Cortex-A57 architecture) & a Quad-Core processor clocked at 1.5 GHZ (Cortex-A53 architecture) with 3GB RAM and Adreno 430 (600MHZ Single-Core) GPU. The performance is good which provides number of graphic intensive games and multitasking run quite very well and there is no major lag at most cases.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE
It has a removable Li-Ion 3300 mah battery with Fast charging support. The battery life is very good which is given below.
BROWSING : upto 11H.
VIDEO WATCHING: upto 10:30H.
TALKTIME : upto 19H(2G) / upto 17H(3G).
STANDBY TIME: upto 500H(2G) / upto 480H(3G).

PROS
*Great build quality.
*Excellent display and viewing angle.
*Excellent camera and video recording clarity.
*NFC support & Microsoft Continuum support .
*Iris Scanner, Gyroscope & Barometer sensors and sensor core support. 
*Wireless charging support.
*Removable battery with very good battery life.
*Dedicated camera key. 

CONS
*App catalog is still quite less in comparison to Android & IOS.
*Buggy Software with lack of certain apps & updates leads to performance issues and the performance is just pretty good and could have been lot better for a flagship. 
*Device feels quite hot under high graphic titles despite the liquid cooling feature.
*Pricy.

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 8/10.
°overall product rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.

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