Re: 940XL features leaked
Warning: Dissertation incoming.....
If these leaks are true, it has some pretty good specs and Continuum/Windows Hello/USB-C are awesome. In my opinion, I still wouldn't count this as a flagship. In order to be one, it will have to have premium branding and set itself apart from the Lumia line which sadly enough has a reputation (at least in the US) of just being another cheap phone. Sad but true. The only way they will break that cycle is to create a Surface Phone or something along those lines, just as Apple did with iPhone and Samsung did with the Galaxy/Note lines.
They need to break out of this numbering scheme as well. Average consumers don't understand it, just as if you were to tell them it's "an Octa-core 810 processor with clock speeds of up to 2.6 GHz". They will simply look at you with a WTF look on their face.
I may be wrong one day, but for now, I just don't see these features being enough to really get consumers to switch from what they already have. I can only say this for the US market though. Here, people are always looking for the next greatest thing and it has to have a premium look and feel to it. Most people don't even know what the specs mean, but they look at the style of it and think "This must be the best phone ever!".
When people see my 1520, they say that it is a cool phone but they also always tell me "There is just nothing exciting enough about Windows Phone to make me switch." and "Isn't it lacking a bunch of apps?" Hopefully Windows 10, Continuum and Windows Hello will be able to start turning this around.
In order to get people to switch, they really need to come out with something ground-breaking, not "just another windows phone." Plus, unless developers start picking up with Windows 10, then we will still be stuck in the whole chicken and the egg loop.
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