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Microsoft to make $80 Windows 10 Mobile phones, powered by Snapdragon 210

By Daniel Petrov

Updated: Jul 17, 2015, 3:16 AM

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Microsoft to make $80 Windows 10 Mobile phones, powered by Snapdragon 210

Microsoft is allegedly working on two low-end Windows 10 Mobile handsets that it plans to introduce in the $80 range or below, though it is hedging its bets by probing other potential makers for entry level Windows phones, too. These budget handsets are destined to take advantage of the burgeoning China market for LTE phones, which has increased several times just in the past year alone.

Being in this sub-$80 price bracket, the Windows 10 Mobile gear won't be a fully spec'd-out undertaking, of course, and is expected to be running on the MSM8909 Snapdragon 210 platform. Snapdragon 210 has four Cortex-A7 cores, clocked at 1.1 GHz, and Adreno 304 GPU, and comes with embedded Bluetooth 4.1 and 802.11n WiFi connectivity. Display resolutions up to 720p is supported, as well as 8-megapixel cameras, 1080p video capture and playback, and hardware H.265 encoding.

This being Qualcomm, the cellular modem has multi-band 3G and LTE, and the radio supports dual SIM configurations, these being for the Chinese market. The low-end Windows phones are expected to hit the conveyor belts in Q3, and be out and about in Q4, just in time for the end-of-the-year shopping craze.

source: Digitimes

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Daniel, a devoted tech writer at PhoneArena from 2010 to 2025, has been engrossed in mobile technology since the Windows Mobile era. His expertise spans mobile hardware, software, and carrier networks, and he's keenly interested in the future of digital health, car connectivity, and 5G. Beyond his professional pursuits, Daniel finds balance in travel, reading, and exploring new tech innovations, while contemplating the ethical and privacy implications of our digital future.