Tuesday, 11 November 2014

Microsoft launches first Lumia phone without Nokia branding, the Microsoft Lumia 535

 Microsoft Lumia 535 smartphone
Those guys who leaked out the Lumia 535 smartphone ahead of today's launch were right to an extent. Everything they said about the new Microsoft smartphone is on point. But it turns out, the company only launched one smartphone, instead of two as earlier rumoured.

Microsoft today finally unveiled its first smartphone without the Nokia branding, the Lumia 535 smartphone, in a blog post(following in the footsteps of search giant Google). The new Microsoft Lumia 535 smartphone beats the Lumia 530, 630 and 635 in terms of specs.
 Microsoft Lumia 535 smartphone


The smartphone, which comes in  two variants a 3G single SIM and a 3G Dual SIM, has a 5-inch touch screen, 5-megapixel  front and back cameras, which are perfect for taking great selfies and fantastic Skype video calls. It sports a 1.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 200 processor with 1GB of RAM and 8Gb of internal storage with microSD slot(up to 128GB) and runs on the latest version of Windows phone, 8.1 OS.

The Microsoft Lumia 535 ''selfie'' smartphone is pretty cheap at $140 and comes with the benefits of having a Windows phone like 15GB of free onedrive storage.