Rumor: Microsoft will present this year’s only Lumia in two weeks

Microsoft will present the only Lumia it will release this year in two weeks, according to a generally well-established site for Windows fans. Microsoft is expected to come out with a smartphone outside the Lumia line by the end of the year.

The only Lumia is the 650, Windows Central reports. The announcement was to be made on February 1 via Microsoft’s own blog. If that’s true, then Microsoft isn’t waiting for the Mobile World Congress, which takes place in Barcelona at the end of February. In previous years, Microsoft presented new Lumias at that fair and in 2010 it unveiled Windows Phone 7 under the name Windows Phone 7 Series.

The Lumia 650 has, according to various rumors, a Snapdragon 210 or 212-soc from Qualcomm, with a memory size of 1GB and a storage space of 8GB. The 650 would have a 5″ LCD with a resolution of 1280×720 pixels. The front camera is rumored to have a maximum resolution of five megapixels, while the rear camera is said to have a resolution of eight megapixels.

After the Lumia 650, according to the site, there would be no more Lumia in 2016, but Microsoft would focus on a device that would internally bear the name Panos Phone, after Panos Panay, one of the driving forces behind Microsoft’s Surface line. That device should appear in the fall.

Microsoft presented the Lumia 950, 950 XL and 550 in October. The latter is a budget smartphone released in December. The specifications of the 550 resemble those of the rumored 650, but the screen of the 550 has a diagonal of 4.7 “.

Suspected Lumia 650. Image: Windows Central