Tuong Nguyen, a Gartner analyst, said he found the demonstration of the Display Dock with a Lumia phone "cool," in the sense that it showed a Lumia could be controlled with PC keyboard commands to provide "a consistent, familiar experience across platforms."
In other words, the Lumias have to have value for business users for personal apps and services, especially since Android devices and iPhones have found their way into businesses through a bring-your-own-device approach. "I believe these will help Microsoft increase share in the enterprise, but only if they can round out their Windows Store so that the phones can be used well by business users at home." "The new Lumias with the Display Dock using Continuum could be very enticing for the business user," added Patrick Moorhead, an analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy. "The app problem has not gone away," she said. Milanesi and other analysts also hit on the central issue of whether the universal apps will be available in sufficient numbers.
She added that it's not a question of whether the new Lumia devices can sell well during the coming holiday season, but "how many enterprises will think they finally have an enterprise-class phone that can appeal to consumers when universal Windows 10 apps are embraced by developers."
"The phones are now a piece of the ecosystem that needs to be there to give Windows 10 users a full experience." "I think the new Lumia phones are good devices for enterprise users and consumers who want a full Windows experience, but these phones are not about conquering the world in the way the phones were with Nokia," said Carolina Milanesi, chief of research at Kantar WorldPanel. Some analysts have questioned whether new Lumia devices can do well in developing markets, where Android devices have a stronghold, followed by Apple's iPhone. In developing markets, they can be your first or only computing devices." "You can run your entire business on them.
The Lumia 950 and 950 XL are "the most productive phones on the planet," Nadella said. The Band 2 will cost $249 and will be available Oct. New features of Microsoft Band 2 include a curved display and a barometric sensor to measure altitude changes for extreme athletes. The 950 and 950XL will ship sometime in November and the 550 in December. The new Lumia 950 and Lumia 950XL start at $549 and $649, respectively, but Microsoft also announced the Lumia 550, a a more-affordable LTE smartphone priced at $139. No single device will be the hub of activity. We built Windows 10 for a new era of mobile computing. With the fastest ramp-up to Windows 10 of any prior Windows version (110 million devices running Windows 10 in just eight weeks), he said, "more and more people are coming home to Windows … We now begin a new chapter of Windows 10 with new devices built for Windows 10. "We're making progress toward moving people from needing, to choosing, to loving Windows," Nadella said.
With Continuum, apps and other software in Windows 10 are intended to run on all the new machines, opening up opportunities for IT, app developers and users. Yet, there was a clear message from CEO Satya Nadella and others that Windows 10 Lumia phones, which only control 3% of the smartphone market, have an important place in Microsoft's Continuum world. 26, might be the most compelling to the Microsoft faithful. Surface Book, starting at $1,499 and available Oct.
Unfortunately, you can't charge your device.Microsoft on Tuesday jammed a range of new Windows 10 devices into a two-hour announcement - everything from three new Lumia smartphones, a Microsoft Band 2 smart wrist wearable, a new Surface Pro 4 and its first-ever laptop, the Surface Book. You use an adapter to connect your smart device to an HDMI monitor and Bluetooth for the mouse and keyboard.
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