Microsoft's Next Phone Could Cost as Much as an iPhone 6S

Did people not expect flagship phones to start cost around $650? That's not just iPhone territory.

The app store is what really matters, as long as the windows app store lags behind the phone will lag behind, it doesn't matter how nice the phone is.

I hope this is not the case as I was looking to buy one of these new phones...but if this is true, it is not really news...just look at the surface tables...really awesome products and really expensive too...it is about showing people your products are amazing, why? because they are expensive.....Apple could sell their phones and tablets for half of their current prices, but then they would not be amazing super-hyped products....look at Android...you can have great, but still affordable products which run on Android...but the biggest Android seller is Samsung and their high end products ain't no cheap!

I rank mobile OS like this: Android, Windows, then iOS. I like openness of Android and hate the restrictiveness or iOS. That being said the Lumia were great phones, but I'm a Nexus fan right now.

I assume this is a vendor placing a fictitious price in a yet to be released product. Otherwise, Microsoft is crazy. Their phones aren't bad but they cannot compete against the quality of Apple's ecosystem. Thus, they have to compete on price.

Unless this phone is slated to use the same version of Windows 10 that's seen in desktops, notebooks and tablets, it's gonna crash and burn.

Microsoft have figured out the secret to success. Slap a massive price tag on something, good or not, and you'll be rolling in dough. Bonus money if: it's a stolen idea, underpowered, looks fancy or is overhyped. Tick all the boxes and win lifetime fanboys. Apple's whole history in a nutshell.

If Microsoft does this, their, already little, grip on the smartphone market will probably collapse.

Why do I think this?
1. Microsoft's grip on the Smartphone market is not all that big because of sues.2. Nobody likes expensive stuff from Microsoft. People will probably want it to be the same or only a little bit higher.

Samsung has been my favorite brand of smartphone so far, I have had almost every single damn phone and the Note 5 is a beast, by far the most durable (doesn't crack a week later) amazing speed and it is great for games (I can leave Fallout shelter running almost all day, unlike with the Iphone, it would die in like an hour)

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The new Windows 10 phones might be the phones to cause me to lease the Note series. If they offer full Windows integration and great features and tons of support, good battery life, performance, and an AMOLED display then it's bye bye Android.

I had a 635 it sucked Instagram sucked n it I'll stick to Android

FINALLY. I'm still rocking my 920 because nothing else feels as quality. Stock with 32GB and free Cloud storage that syncs across all devices? Cant beat it. I'll be upgrading to the 950 when it comes out.

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I'm very interested to hear about the 950 XL. My 1520 is great but it's starting to show its age.

Due to my poor vision, I need a phone with a larger screen and the 1520 was the biggest Winphone I could get. I've had Windows smartphones since WP7 and I don't plan on switching any time soon.

Really like my Nokia, but the windows app store is useless. Fix the store and I will definitely buy another windows phone next time around

Didn't know they still made phones.

I love windows phones because I have one but the app support is shit! Get every app like ios and android then I might think about it Microsoft that is way too much money! I want fallout shelter on windows phone!!

They'll likely be more powerful than the iPhones so it makes sense. My Lumia 920 was just as much as a new iPhone at the time and it is still close to Apple's latest phones.

Why? That's a bit too pricey for a phone with less apps than either of the big guns and historically closed minded to a fault. Good luck, they keep trying but in time we will see if they will sever this want to be a jack of all trades master of none approach before the board lines Nadella up in their sights. This is a business and they must have projected a few things but uptake of Windows Phone even if they made it Windows 10 is still abysmally low and not actually increasing. So it's a wait and see what happens, did they drop the Nokia name from the Lumia yet?

The Sony Z5 effect, just like they planned it. Now all the makers want to have their own "very pricey" phone model.

I predict another flop.

I'm willing to pay premium, if it's clearly apparent in the phone. I like to have nice things.

But! Are all the apps in there too? I see a lot of "available for ios and android" texts still today, with wiindows still missing.

Will buy one if I can play my current digital copies of 360 games on it and make a controller and or controller adapter for it.

Well it flop MS putting up there prices like xbox1 really they blind what come to pricing .

I remember when people used phones to talk to people. For that price I'd just upgrade my cpu. On the plus side, it will hurt people more when I shoulder check them and they drop the phone they were looking at and not where they were walking.