Microsoft-Lumia-950The latest flagship smartphones by Microsoft seek to make the Windows 10 experience seamless across desktop, tablet and mobile. The Lumia 950 XL and Lumia 950 devices loaned to Kuwait Times for testing proved that Microsoft is on the right track to narrow the gap between its Windows phones and its Android and iOS rivals. The phones are sleek, comfortable to use and packed with features to make life easier. With a standout camera and impressive controls, the phones are fun for both professional and casual users.

As the name indicates, the XL telephone is the larger of the two sets. Its exquisite features means that it is the dream phone for fanatics in technology on paper, yet are those features enough to attract the attention of users, and compete with Android and iOS sets?

Design

On the front:

It has a 5.7 inch AMOLED screen covered with a Gorilla glass sheet to protect the screen. This screen occupies most of the front side with the "Microsoft" mark on top. On the back, just like the rest of company sets, has a large area of dull black polycarbonate and it has a large camera with a pure view Zeiss silver ring, in addition to the Windows mark in the middle of the back cover.

The power button and voice control buttons are on the right side of the set, as the power button in the middle, and although it is easy to press on the buttons, they have a sharp touch. The photography button is on the same side, making it easier to take shots.

On the backside, which is one of this phone's features, as the rest of companies are opting for irremovable covers, we find two slots for nano SIMS, as the phone has a dual SIM feature, in addition to a slot for a micro SD card, which accepts a memory of 200 GB capacity, in addition to a removable battery. Though the set is a phablet, it is very comfortable to use with one hand.

Screen:

The vision under the sun is very good, but it would be better if the screen becomes a little brighter.

Accuracy of the screen: K2

Pixel density: PPI pixel density 518 making it an outstanding screen, and as expected from AMOLED screen, the contrast is outstanding.

Colors are clear and black is deep, the corners are great without variation in brightness, and there are options to adjust the white color balance from the setting list, while the phone supports the Glance feature, as it displays some information on the screen while in the sleep mode.

Features of Lumia 950

Design:

It has the same design as Lumia 950 XL, but little smaller, as we said the frame is made of the polycarbonate plastic, which is saddening for Windows phone users, as it was expected the phone will come with metal design to compete with other phones, but anyway, the attractive design may compensate for that, and it is easy to use in the hand. Microsoft removed the front screen buttons and placed them in the screen to reduce the phone dimensions.

Screen and sound

The screen is slightly different, as the phone comes with 5.2 inch with 1440 x 2560 pixel accuracy, with AMOLED color technology and density of PPI 564 pixels, and although it is smaller, it is clearer as far as the pixels density is considered. The screen is protected with Gorilla glass to protect it against any scratches.

Both phones have AMOLED screens with the technology of clear back, which reduces the light reflection on the screen and makes vision clear under the sun. The phone has four microphones in order to improve the quality of the sound for calls and video recording with the least distortion.

Performance and processor

It comes with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 with hexagonal nucleous with 1.8 gigahertz frequency, while the problem of that processor remains the excessive heat, but Microsoft solved the problem by providing the phone with a water cooling feature, and equipped with drawing processor of the Adreno 418 category, and a USB Type - C to transfer data faster.

It has a large random memory at 3 G of DDR4, so there is no problem for multi functions and applications with an internal memory of 32 GB and expandable to 200 GB.

Camera

Lumia 950 is equipped with a 20 megapixel camera and an F1.9 lens with pure view technology and a triple flash, with a front camera of 5 megapixel accuracy. Video recording with K4 accuracy and a speed of 30 frames per second, while the front camera has 1080p accuracy and 30 frames per second, and these are the same features of Lumia XL 950.

System:

As we said above all Microsoft phones are now working with Windows 10 system, which is good, and there is an investment by the company with many companies to improve Windows 10 store for applications.

Battery:

950 Lumia comes with li-ion 3000 removable battery, and works for 18 continuous hours of calls through third generation networks and 67 continuous hours of music.

Both phones support the quick charging technology quick charge 2.0, through which the battery can be charged from 0% to 50% in 30 minutes only. It is a good battery compared with the phone size, and Windows 10 does not use much energy contrary to its Android competitor. Thee Windows Hello feature, which allows the identification of the users phone to open the phone, and it is available in Lumia 950 XL and also allows the opening of the phone through the eye's iris!

We now come to a fantastic feature, which is continuum, which is a small system that allows you to transform your small phone into a personal computer that operates with Windows 10, with a keyboard, mouse and everything.

By Islam Al-Sharaa