Microsoft Lumia 950 and 950 XL Launching this Month, France now Slashing Prices Too

By Staff Writer

Nov 02 2015, 06:47 AM EST

Microsoft's latest creations, the Nokia Lumia 950 and 950 XL, will be available this month and are now available for pre-order.

At Microsoft's special event last October 6, it launched the Surface Pro 4, and staged the revelation of the Lumia 950 and 950 XL. Although there is no official launch date of the phone yet, Insiders have gotten a glimpse of much news movement including price slashes by Microsoft UK, and now joined by France.

A couple of weeks ago, Uber Gizmo reported that Microsoft UK had slashed the prices of both Lumia 950 and 950 XL. Amazon France has also reportedly said that they will join UK in the price drop. The handsets were originally priced in France at 599 Euro for the 950 and 699 Euro for the 950 XL. Now prices for France and UK are now at 562.49 Euro and 649 Euro respectively.

Several specifications were leaked ahead of the launch, reports PC Advisor. It has been confirmed that both models will come in either black or white.

The Nokia Lumia 950 is packed with a 5.2 inch Quad-HD screen (2560x1440, 564ppi), a 20Mp camera with Zeiss optics, 32GB of storage (plus microSD support up to 2TB) and runs Windows 10. The 950 XL has a much wider screen display of 5.7 inches (though resolution is lower at 518ppi).

Digital Trends shares the processors to be a Qualcomm's Snapdragon 808 chipset that will then be paired up with 3 GB of RAM for the Lumia 950. The Lumia 950 XL will sport the Snapdragon 810 chipset, also with 3 GB of RAM.

Both phones are to be equipped with iris-scanning technology to support Windows Hello, a security feature unlocked through eye recognition.

The following are the key specs for the Lumia 950: