Microsoft Lumia 640 & Lumia 640 XL Release Date With Windows 10

The Redmond, Washington-based tech titan Microsoft will first roll out its latest operating system, Windows 10, for computer units and will, subsequently, make it available for its own smartphones - the Microsoft Lumia 640 and its larger variant the Lumia 640 XL.

According to Christian Today, this piece of new originated from a Microsoft General Manager in Scandinavia named Ossi Korpela, who made a video boasting the Lumia 640, which was unveiled along with the Lumia 640 XL at the Mobile World Congress earlier this year.

At the screening of the promotional video, Korpela said, "It's a high end device that is affordable for the consumers and businesses. It will be the first device that will run, later on this year, Windows 10. This device will include the Office 365."

The report further states that the Microsoft Lumia 640 is a large package that comes with a budget-friendly price. The device sports a 5-inch IPS display and is equipped with a quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor clocked at 1.2 GHz. This processor is accompanied with a 1 GB RAM as well as an expandable 8 GB storage.

Microsoft Lumia 640 boasts an 8-megapixel primary rear-facing camera with LED flash and autofocus. The camera of this device has the aptitude to shoot 1080p videos at 30 frames per second. The handset also comes with a front-facing decent 1-megapixel camera. Microsoft Lumia 640 packs a 2500 mAh battery that can last for a maximum of 17 hours on 3G.

On the other hand, the Microsoft Lumia 640 XL comes with a 5.7-inch screen size and uses the same processing unit and RAM as well as storage. On the other hand, its cameras are more powerful - a 13-megapixel rear snapper and a 5-megapixel shooter at the front. It packs a 3000 mAh battery that can last throughout the day.

Microsoft launched the Microsoft Lumia 640 as well as the Lumia 640 XL in India last month. Users in the U.K. can now acquire these devices, which will be among the first to receive Windows 10.