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Microsoft unveils the $149 Lumia 540 Dual SIM smartphone

04/15/2015 at 12:15 PM by Brad Linder 7 Comments

Microsoft’s latest smartphone is an affordable phone with a 5 inch, 720p display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 quad-core processor, and a rather affordable price tag.

The Lumia 540 Dual SIM should be available in May for about $149.

lumia 540 dual sim

As the name implies, the phone supports two SIM cards so you can use the phone on multiple networks. That’s not a feature that’s common for phones sold in the US, but it comes in handy in many parts of the world — and Microsoft plans to offer the Lumia 540 Dual SIM in the Middle East, Asia Pacific, and Italy.

The phone has 1GB of RAM and 8GB of storage, a microSD card slot, and 15GB of free cloud storage with Microsoft OneDrive (or 30GB if you enable auto-upload for your camera roll).

The Lumia 540 Dual SIM has an 8MP rear camera with LED flash and auto-focus, and a 5MP wide-angle front camera. The phone has a 2200 mAh battery.

Microsoft will launch the phone with Windows Phone 8.1 software, but a free Windows 10 update will be available later this year.

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This is what Microsoft publicizes today :), the same day Nokia announced they bought Alcatel for 16.6B, and is now effectively back in the handset manufacturing business, having left Microsoft holding a very ugly bag. Can anyone tell the difference between a 2011 Lumia, and a 2015 one ? Everyone else in the industry, is jumping over backwards with new materials and design, and they still make the same God awful plastic unibody nonsense.

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You are factually incorrect. Nokia aquired french Alcatel-Lucent, which is a Manufacturer of Network Equipment, not Alcatel OneTouch, a Handset Maker owned by China’s TCL Communication. So in essence, 2 Companies that have Brandrecognition in the Mobile Handset Space from Days gone by, who both sold their Handset Division to other Companies, merged to work on, and i quote the Press release here “5G, IP and software-defined networking, cloud, analytics as well as sensors and imaging.”

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Yes, you are correct. TCL apparently owns the label now. I taught they were just a manufacturing partner. It was actually pretty stupid and presumptuous of me to think that a multy-billion deal between two enormous companies, would be so poorly put together, it would allow for such a ridiculous thing, to circumvent what I imagine is a 1000+ page non-compete. 🙂

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Snapdragon 200? I think this is the first time I have heard of anyone using it. The Snapdragon 400 seems to the be cheap series these days. 8 GB of RAM? At least it has a microSD card slot. 720p doesn’t bother me on a budget phone but the rest of the specs are rubbish. There are better smartphones (including Windows phones) out there for close to the same money.

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While I’m not thrilled about the prospect of MS succeeding in mobile space, I am pleased that the low priced lumia hardware pushes down the entry level prices for smartphones in general.

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Yuck, those Lumia colors look kind of lame.

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$150 is way too much for s200.

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