

The Lumia 950 XL has a 5.7 in (140 mm) AMOLED display with a resolution of 2560x1440 ( WQHD) and a 16:9 aspect ratio. The phone has 3 GB of LPDDR4 RAM, and 32 GB of internal storage which can be expanded with microSD cards up to 256 GB in size. The SoC also includes an Adreno 430 GPU and is cooled by a heat pipe that dissipates heat inside the phone. The Lumia 950 XL uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 MSM8994 SoC which combines four 2 GHz Cortex-A57 and four 1.5 GHz Cortex-A53 cores in a big.LITTLE architecture, allowing more computationally intensive workloads to run on the faster "big" cores while threads with less priority run on the slower "LITTLE" cores. The phone is available in two colors, black and white, although third-party replacement shells are available in different colors and materials. The Lumia 950 XL has a polycarbonate frame with a removable back shell, allowing access to the battery as well as SIM and microSD card slots. The phone is primarily aimed at users desiring a flagship device, in contrast to Microsoft's previous strategy of targeting developing markets with low-end hardware. The Lumia 950 XL is the successor to the Nokia Lumia 1520 and is among the first phones to natively run Windows 10 Mobile. The Microsoft Lumia 950 XL (codenamed Cityman, a reference to the old Nokia Cityman) is a smartphone developed by Microsoft, officially revealed on Octo and released on Novemalongside the smaller Lumia 950. Iris scanner (near infrared) for Windows HelloĬontinuum for Phone via Microsoft Display Dock or Miracast
