Instead you'll get a promo voucher and you'll have to order it for free from the Microsoft Online Store. The dock itself won't come bundled with your Lumia 950 XL though. Luckily, Microsoft will be throwing this dock for free if you get a Lumia 950 XL via the Microsoft's official online stores in UK and Germany. This small gadget is quite expensive though, it costs about €75 in Europe. This in theory make for lighter packing when traveling or save you the expense of a standalone computer.īoth Lumia smartphones are now available on pre-order as is the Display Dock, required for the phone-to-PC magic. Both are powerful enough to use the so-called Continuum feature - that's the ability to turn your phone into a full-fledged PC by plugging in an external monitor and a keyboard via the Microsoft Display Dock.

The Microsoft Lumia 950 does its best impression of an average Android phone, almost as if it's trying to get you to buy it, take it home and say, 'Too late! You're running Windows now.' It reminds me a lot of my Nexus 5X in size, color and styling.Microsoft Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL are the first Windows 10 running smartphones. Does it really have what it takes to win converts from iOS and Android, or keep Windows Phone 8.1 users from defecting? Clearly, it's not that simple.

I felt like that about the Audiovox SMT 5600, too, before the Redmond company blew it in mobile.īut now it's up against the best phones ever made, like the similarly-sized Samsung Galaxy S6, iPhone 6S, LG G4 and Nexus 5X. Lumia 950 lays the foundation for Windows 10 Mobile, and it's off to a better start, even if Lumia sales are dismal. Its iris-scanning technology makes for a nifty unlock method and Continuum lets me scale the software to TV proportions for a useful desktop-like mode. This 5.2-inch phone does try a few interesting tricks so that it's not too basic. Only the phone's operating system is Windows 10 Mobile, much to the benefit of Microsoft's diehard fans and PC holdouts. It looks, feels and runs like your average-sized Android phone. More than a decade later, that's once again the appeal of the Lumia 950.

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