Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Madness at Microsoft: Flagship Lumia phones are now FREE | SiliconANGLE

Buy an unlocked Lumia 950 XL, get a free Lumia 950; Microsoft continues to race Blackberry to the smartphone market exit; also see Microsoft launches Lumia BOGO deal to boost fading Windows phone sales (PCWorld)
"So why would Microsoft be doing what seems like a crazy bit of business? The answer is simply because the new Lumia range has not been selling. When the company released its Q3 earnings last week Microsoft revealed that its mobile phone revenue was far from healthy. This comes as little surprise as Microsoft had earlier said at Build 2016 that the company would not be focusing on phones very much for a while. Still, right now the state of Lumia phone seems desperate, or sad."
Madness at Microsoft: Flagship Lumia phones are now FREE | SiliconANGLE

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