Now that Windows 10 is out, focus is turning to Windows 10 Mobile running on Windows Phones, with flagship Lumia models expected in the fall.
Confirming recent rumors, Juniper Research analyst Sam Smith said by email Thursday that the Lumia 950 and Lumia 950XL will ship with Windows 10 natively.
Microsoft didn't comment on Thursday, but company officials said as early as March at Mobile World Congress that Lumia models running Windows 10 would ship in the fall. The speculation is that a formal announcement will occur in September, with shipments starting in October.
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Smith said the 950 will probably run a 64-bit Snapdragon 808 processor, with the 950XL running a slightly more powerful 64-bit Snapdragon 810 processor. That might not sound like a big difference, but Smith said that, as a result, the 950 might not be able to support the Continuum feature of Windows 10. Continuum is the ability to plug a device into a keyboard and use it as you would a desktop, which works toward the universal platform concept that Microsoft has heavily promoted.
Not providing Continuum support in the Lumia 950 'would be a monumental misstep for the new OS, to have a flagship device unable to run one of the OS's headline features,' Smith added.
Other specs of the two phones, as reported recently by Chinese technology website IT Home, refer to the 950 by the codename 'Talkman' and the 950 XL by the codename 'Cityman.'
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The 950, according to the site, will have a 5.2-in. display, 3GB of memory, 32GB of internal storage with a microSD slot for storage expansion, a 3,000mAh removable battery and support for LTE wireless.
The 950XL will have many of the same features as the 950, but with a larger 5.7-in display and 3,300mAh removable battery, according to IT Home.
There are also rumors that Microsoft will release a high-end smartphone with a front-facing LED flash.
Windows Phone has trailed in the smartphone market, consistently garnering less than 5% market share. But various analysts have predicted that the Windows 10 Mobile innovations could grow that share, based on Microsoft's universal platform concept that allows apps to work on desktops, tablets and phones.
'We expect a short-term uptake of Windows Phones, based on the new features that Windows 10 offers,' Smith said via email. 'However, any increase in Windows phones overall will be slow, as it will take time for the app ecosystem to accelerate for developers to incorporate another OS on top of the Android/iOS duopoly.'
Without that ecosystem, he added, 'consumer adoption will be reluctant.' In other words, universal apps will 'hasten any migration of consumers from iOS and Android,' he said. 'But if the main body of Windows Phone are simply iOS/Android ports, there is little software-based incentive to switch. If universal apps for Windows on mobile have unique capabilities, then they will have stronger appeal.'
Juniper on Thursday also reported that Lumia sales surged upwards by 12% in the second quarter of 2015 compared with the same quarter a year ago. Microsoft shipped 8.4 million devices for the second quarter of 2015, garnering less than 3% of the total market, Juniper said.
Overall, smartphone makers shipped 338 million smartphones globally to retailers in the second quarter, an increase of 16%. Apple continued its record-breaking streak with 47.5 million iPhone sales in the quarter. In China, revenues for iPhones increased by 112% to more than $13 billion, Juniper said.
Other Chinese smartphone makers generally saw shipments rise, with Huawei seeing 50% growth and Xiaomi increasing 33%. LG, based in South Korea, however, saw a 3% decline.
Juniper noted a decline in shipments for Samsung as well, but didn't indicate a percentage. Samsung has not been able to ship the volumes of the Galaxy S6 Edge as expected and plans to lower the price of the device and the Galaxy S6, as reported early Thursday.
Still holding out for the elusive and mythical Surface Phone? If you still haven’t seen the writing on the wall, this is practically the nail in Windows 10 Mobile’s coffin. Joe Belfiore, Microsoft’s very own veep for Windows, confirms on Twitter that “building new features/hw aren’t the focus” anymore, as far as Windows 10 Mobile and Microsoft is concerned. Short of an official statement that may never come, this tweet practically means what almost everyone knew all along: Windows on mobile is dead.
Psp emulator for pc windows 8. The series of tweets coming from Belfiore were prompted by a question on whether it’s time to leave the Windows Mobile platform. Belfiore candidly admitted to have switched platforms for the sake of platform/hw diversity, which he admitted to being an iPhone “today”. Naturally, this kicked the hornet’s nest, which Belfiore tried to address in less than 280 characters.
Ps – yes, it's an iPhone today … Trying out iOS 7.1 . No need to alert the media. :)
— Joe Belfiore (@joebelfiore) March 19, 2014
He does assure users that current devices will still be getting bug fixes and securityupdates, but these are most likely meant more to appease its enterprise partners, like HP, whom it is practically abandoning. But he makes it clear in no uncertain terms that developing anything new, software or hardware, isn’t a priority anymore. And, yes, that most likely also means the Surface Phone.
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Of course we'll continue to support the platform. bug fixes, security updates, etc. But building new features/hw aren't the focus. ? https://t.co/0CH9TZdIFu
— Joe Belfiore (@joebelfiore) October 8, 2017
Belfiore explains the reasoning behind this change of course, which shouldn’t really surprise anyone. Windows Mobile in all its incarnations failed to gain any developer traction to warranty continued investment in the platform. To be fair, Microsoft did try to use every tactic it could to give developers incentives to develop for the mobile platform or, at the very least, its Universal Windows Platform (UWP). Although the situation now with Windows 10 is significantly better, it may have just been too little too late.
We have tried VERY HARD to incent app devs. Paid money. wrote apps 4 them. but volume of users is too low for most companies to invest. ☹️ https://t.co/ePsySxR3LB
— Joe Belfiore (@joebelfiore) October 8, 2017
It’s a chicken and egg problem that any mobile platform other than Android and iOS now face. Developers wait for more devices in order to maximize their chances of reaching more users but hardware makers wait for more apps and developers to get onboard before investing in new hardware. Users are, unfortunately, left to just watch and hope for a happy ending. Sadly, this won’t be the case for them.