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However, when it's so crippled by its bad choice of chipset, the Lumia 650 just can't measure up to its infinitely superior predecessor. Battery life was very respectable at 11h 36m in our continuous video playback test with the screen brightness set to 170cd/m2, and its screen and build quality are practically second to none in its price range. This is such a shame, as this would have been a great Windows phone if only it had a decent processor inside it. However, given that Continuum was still a little juddery on the Lumia 950 XL, I doubt that the 650's processor would be able to handle it even if it did come with a USB Type-C port.
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It's also worth noting that since the Lumia 650 only has a Micro USB port for charging rather than a USB Type-C port like the Lumia 950 and 950 XL, it's not compatible with Microsoft's Display Dock accessory and doesn't support Continuum, which is arguably one of the best features in the entire Windows 10 operating system. Drilling down into the Settings menu was equally laggy and menu animations often jerked and stuttered. The Photos app in particular took an age to load, and I had to wait a while before the Windows Store became usable as well. While I couldn't run our normal Geekbench 3 benchmarks to assess its single and multi-core performance levels, it was clear from everyday use that it struggles with even Microsoft's basic suite of apps. Even your average smartwatch can match up to the Lumia 650, and I haven't seen a phone with a Snapdragon 200-series chip since Microsoft's terrible Lumia 535, which came out in 2014 and was by far the worst Windows phone I've ever tested.Īdmittedly, even the Lumia 950's hexa-core Snapdragon 808 couldn't quite run Windows 10 Mobile as smoothly as I would have liked, but the OS's sluggish tendencies are only exaggerated by the Snapdragon 212. Running on just a quad-core 1.3GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 212 and 1GB of RAM, performance is decidedly below par, even for a phone at this price.
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If nothing else just throw it in your laptop bag – it’s still cool to use as an extremely portable dock.Sadly, all the Lumia 650's hard work comes completely undone by Microsoft's choice of processor. So don’t throw away your little old friend just yet, give him a try with your Windows 10 laptop – he might be your desktop friend once again. Windows 10 detects the dock correctly and provides you with the same output to a second 1920×1080 monitor as you’d expect (extend/duplicate), along with 3 extra USB ports. I was rummaging around a box of cables the other day and came across this old Microsoft dock and thought – this still looks like a pretty cool piece of tech, I wonder if this thing still has any uses? I gave it power, hooked it up to an HDMI monitor, grabbed a Dell Latitude 7280 with a USB-C connector and connected up the dock – lo and behold, it works!Īll of the technical specs for the Microsoft Display Dock say it’s compatible only with certain Lumia devices, but it seems it’s quite happy to function as a dock/port-replicator for modern Windows 10 devices too. My desk setup nowadays is a Lenovo P50 laptop/workstation connected to a couple of 24″ QHD Dell monitors via a Dell Universal Display Dock, it works well.
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Cool tech! Sadly, as Microsoft failed to make an impact in the phone market we all pretty much moved to Android or iOS – which consigned the phone and the dock to storage.
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It was supplied with a Microsoft Display Dock (HD-500), which you could hook up to the Lumia Phone, a Wireless Keyboard and Mouse and start using it as a mini Win10 desktop on a full screen monitor. I went through the phase of owning a Microsoft/Lumia 950 phone, it wasn’t a bad phone at all but it was let down with application support.