Lumia 950/950XL flagships design - like it or not?

[bsbharath1987]

It's not that metal phones in WP land have no precedent. Nokia themselves made the 925 and 830. Why can't MS reuse those designs, instead of coming up with this?

 

[colinkiama]

It's not that metal phones in WP land have no precedent. Nokia themselves made the 925 and 830. Why can't MS reuse those designs, instead of coming up with this?

Because metal is next year

 

[trivishal]

Lumia Flagship and Mid Range Smartphones should have design language having smooth rounded Metal frames, like that of Xperia Z5 with polycarbonate back shell would be awesome, like that of Lumia 830.
Don't need full metal like Htc M9, or fully removable back shells like that of Lumia 640 or 730, or metal and glass like Samsung Note 5.

 

[Marty89]

It's not that metal phones in WP land have no precedent. Nokia themselves made the 925 and 830. Why can't MS reuse those designs, instead of coming up with this?

Nokia also designed 950/950XL

 

[Aigar Erdfeldt]

why on earth would they move buttons on the screen...that sucks

 

[illy khan]

why on earth would they move buttons on the screen...that sucks

Imo is better than capacitative ones on my 1020 and 930. Touch tbem accidentally is so often, then you must go search for your app or in browser accidentally go back.
Best solution for me are hardware buttons, but appears that this is more expensive.

 

[Dusan Randj]

Nokia also designed 950/950XL

And McLaren, aluminium body great looking phone, that MSFT get rid off.

 

[colinkiama]

why on earth would they move buttons on the screen...that sucks

You can hide the buttons by swiping up from the bottom then you'll never accidently go home, back or to search every again, especially when watching movies and playing games.

 

[hagjohn]

why on earth would they move buttons on the screen...that sucks

I think this has been explained a lot over the past year. Moving the buttons on screen will allow more mfg to reuse their existing designs for wp.

And also accidental hitting of the physical buttons, which I did a lot on my 1020, but I do not do on my new 640 XL (cyan), which I might add, is a great phone. It has some issues but overall, I like it. I get complimented on it all the time.

The whole metal vs poly, well, I could care less. My 640 XL is fine the way it is. With cell plans changing in the US, I think people are going to be more price conscious than they have in the past.

 

[Krystianpants]

I'm using a 735, they actually turn of the pixels on the three navigation bar after a while, it kind of greys it out but you can just hide them as well.

What were you guys expecting?
They look great by the way. So slim and the back l looks incredible.//images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/09/26/2fda7d44aaca6861d0883373f709ee4e.png//images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/09/26/9ee75290b79538f0a99fc88377edd54a.png

Yah they look nice. But it's just weird having that bezel at the bottom with no use. Usually companies have the buttons on the bezel or something there. In the case of iphone it's the one button. The navbar blends in with the bezel too making it look even larger.

 

[viswanathansri]

To me, 950 looks bad. But 950XL is absolutely great looking in that cyan blue render. I really don't understand why people hate the 950XL

 

[badboody]

First you cant make ur opinion based of photo of slid show pic.... u cant see the real 3D view of the mobile from that.... when I looked of the leaked picture of the mobile that was removed u can see that there is carves and looks much better than the slid show pic ....then we come to most important thing in Lumia mobiles is that when u hold the mobile in ur hand u know the quality of the device and how its way better than the competitor's last ,thing u cant compare this to Lumia 1520 or any non removable battery devices , and this will take us to why most of people are not so happy with how it looks and yet that what people asked for (removable battery device).....so u cant have both slick design and removable battery.
I know one thing for sure that once its in the store I will compare it to my Lumia 1520 while I am there and make up my mind yet I know it wont be fair to compere two years old mobile with brand new one .....!!

 

[Anthony Vangeli]

I'm waiting to see how the camera stacks up more than anything, though I truly hate how Lumia Camera 5 (and now Windows Camera) handles image processing.

If it's a marginally improved camera (as that's exactly what I'm expecting; the 1520/930 sensor with tweaked lenses,) I hope Samsung releases a Galaxy S6/Edge/+/Note for Windows and supplies their own camera app. As it stands, ever since LC5 I've hated my 1520, and as it stands, the best Lumia camera in the world can't make up for the **** Windows Camera will do to the photos captured.

I'd totally go for a Galaxy S6 Edge+ for Windows if it were available in white and Microsoft didn't force Samsung to ruin the home key (and the beautiful front design overall) by plastering the Windows logo onto it.

 

[GMC262]

"so u cant have both slick design and removable battery."

Why not? A removable battery usually involves a portion of the back panel.

 

[MicrosoftWinPho]

I would've preferred a vapour mag housing like the surface (pro) 3 but oh well...

 

[GMC262]

I've also read that Samsung S6 can shoot raw files with the help of an app. Has anyone heard similar info about the 950s?

 

[malabhau]

I hate this design. This silver circle around the camera omg. Over 500€ for this. Thats a joke or?
BTW for what windows phone need a so big cpu?

 

[Krystianpants]

I hate this design. This silver circle around the camera omg. Over 500€ for this. Thats a joke or?
BTW for what windows phone need a so big cpu?

Maybe for future Direct X12 gaming . Though not sure the 810v2.1 supports it.
Being able to use phone and work on a desktop via miracast simultaneously? No idea

The high res screen needs the extra power though.

 

[peachy001]

I had a look at those articles. Not sure that any of them say the overheating is solved, indeed the recent 810 devices sold in Japan, have a warning on them regarding heat.

I sincerely hope that you are correct though.

 

[Krystianpants]

I had a look at those articles. Not sure that any of them say the overheating is solved, indeed the recent 810 devices sold in Japan, have a warning on them regarding heat.

I sincerely hope that you are correct though.

Here's another one.

Next Gen OnePlus 2 Smartphone Uses Cooler Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 v2.1 SoC | HotHardware

See the thing is don't buy day one. Wait for the reviews.