Microsoft Lumia 540 Dual SIM is official with 5-inch 720p display and 1GB RAM for $150

My phone is Lumia 540 help me windows 10 upgrade please

in my new lumia 540 in glance screen is not show in settinf so please give me solution about this....

Is there any update in Microsoft Lumia 540...?

Im also confused, It's like a squid shooting itself in each and everyone of its tentacles

The only difference between this phone and Lumia 535 is the camera 8MP/5MP. But is a good phone. The only thing I want is not to have touch problems like 535.

I'm holding out for a Lumia that comes with Windows 10 mobile operating system preinstalled, at least 1 GB RAM, and at least 5MP rear camera with LED flash for photos, and 1MP front camera for Skype and selfies. Or I'll get a Moto G or E.

The 540 is Microsofts apology for the POS 535...

MS would do well to offer this phone in trade to everyone whos 535 is in for repair.

I just want to know when are Microsoft going to release a high end phone. The last high end phone was the Lumia 930 and that was in the summer of last year.

And here I was hoping that they would release only 64x, 84x and 94x series this year and 54x, 74x and 94x series for next year :-( No worries... I can live with 8 new phones every year ;-)

I used l535 everything was good except screen ,it doesn't have clear black display ,now ms released 540 without it , anyway I sold it and got 635 way better display than 5** series , look forward to getting 640

This is the problem right here. They keep putting out new devices that compete directly with the device they just put out.

Like I've said before they need to streamline the devices so they have one flagship, one mid-range, one low-end device per year and focus more on building the Windows phone platform.

This is all great (it really is), but where is the 640XL on AT&T??

Should have tried some thing else like Lumia music edition with extra speakers or with dedicated music keys..now all phones look so similar and confusing....

Here comes the second Samsung. Nokia did a great job with naming the phones and keeping one phone in each of the budget range. Now Microsoft is making things way more confusing and worse. There are already too much phones in budget range but very few in mid range & not a single flagship. Microsoft has clearly gone nuts...

How the hell does the 435 and 532 support glance but this phone don't!? The L520 really needs a successor.

Wow! These specs, plus Pureview Technology, Glance Screen, Clear Black DIsplay is the flagship specs of Nokia Lumia less than 3 years ago. I'm talking about Lumia 920, and yet some specs of 540 are better than the Lumia 920 which costed me 650$, such as the battery, the chip (quad cores), the front camera and screen size. This is the real deal. It looks far better than than Lumia 535.

Its a 535 with an 8MP camera

This is getting too confusing lol, it has a better ffc than the 640 lol. I can understand why they are doing this - saturate the low end and middle tier. As the OEMS are not really pushing wp devices and just waiting for Windows 10 to hit. But in the end updating all these to Windows 10...will be a pain in the backside.

The naming isnt good, i was hoping they save the 40 series (940, 840, 740, 640 ...) for W10 devices but Microsoft thinks otherwise. I am very certain this device has been launched to counter the Moto G.

More confusing, derivative, cheap phones.  What is that 140 slightly different low end phones now?  Strategy continues to fail, double down. 

This sounds exactly like the 535; except that it has a flash. Maybe the 540 is nothing more than a fix for the 535's touch sensitivity issues and an alignment with the current X40 naming trend???

They need to slim down the offerings, {Lumia 3xx = 4xx, 5xx} {Lumia 6xx = 6xx, 7xx, 8xx, 13xx} and {Lumia 9xx = 9xx, 10xx, 15xx}. All with different sizes and variations of the 3, 6, and 9 {Lumia 350, 350 XL, Lumia 650, 650 XL, Lumia 950, 950 S(10xx), 950 XL}. And release all phones in a series a particular series together.

Microsoft is following the footprints of Nokia . .Everyone knows that Nokia released n number of models from 1100 to N8 . . Same followed by MS

What's the point?! They are repeating the same meaningless exercise that led Nokia nowhere a decade ago. Having a zillion different models is just a waste and creates confusion. Stop it!

I just want a "leak" of the high end device they have planned for this year. Can you scoop that for us WC? Find me some leaked pics, specs, anything really, so I can at least keep telling myself to hold off on buying a new phone. My 925 is pretty beat up, I'm itching for a new WP.

Seems instead of competing with other brands Lumia handsets are competing with each other...funny..... Flagship please....

very much like 535, specs wise. meh.

Time to replace my 520

what the hell is ms doing? what is the need of this phone? too close to 640, too away of a 5XX device... why they release 640 with 1mp FFS and this with 5? why they released 535 in first place? damn. looks like they are banishing X3X / X35 line and moving directly to X40 line.

Eagerly waiting for lumia740 that might be the best mid ranger

Stupid strategy! Seriously, this is making me dizzy. They release now and then but still not one proper mid-ranger just like the Lumia 620. Damn you! I have no idea how long I have to stick with 620, he got old and dies on me a many times. :(

Besides the camera, what is the difference between this and the 535?
Not only it's getting annoying to see more and more budget phones (specially seeing that there's already plenty of them), but this just seems stupid to me. 535 was released not long ago, and it is great.
What the hell was this 540 released for?! It doesn't make any sense considering all the options we currently have.

Does it have a equalizer ;_;

It's 5:40 on my watch too.
Hahahahhaha.

Forget the 640 get the 540 or still better wait 2 months and get the 340 with the same specs :-(

This is beyond ridiculous. Waiting for Win 10 to release a flagship makes no sense while they keep releasing budget phones that will be upgraded. Release one now, then release a 1020 successor with Win 10. Not everyone wants a budget phone, but it is hard to justify spending anything on the flagships already out because of how old they already are.

I love the specification.
But I hate the design.
Looks so cheap.

Does it have clear black display?

So why does this have a 5mp front camera while the 640 has a 1mp ffc? What sense does this even make?

ONLY? But I think that numbers are getting a little confusing :/

Microsoft forgot the mid range devices, where 740 and 840?

is it the same shell cover as the lumia 640??

MS shows the middle finger to 535 buyers..

Another curve edged phone. I want a phone with sharp edges like the Lumia 730.

And nothing for Latin America, sad

Finally, a budget phone that has a great selfie camera. i think the 5mp on the front is the first for a budget device.

Ugh... confused between 640 and 540... 
Which one to buy?  God .. 

The only thing I don't like about it is that I can't record 720p video on it. :/

With all these low end bombardment, they still can't make a free phone...

I bought a Lumia 535 and i did a spec to spec comparison. Everything is the same apart from the housing and the camera. The 540 has a better camera. That's about it.

It's going to probably cost a tad bit more, than the 535 but it's mainly a backup phone. So it's fine i guess.

These phones are overpowered.

They could have waited build to announce this ...

The more, the better! Don't listen to the hate, cause it's all uphill now, mate!

There are enough budget phones

Amazing...Price Amazing Features... All 40 series here...NOW we need 740 then 840 and finally 940 and 1040 .... 1540 ;) or maybe 940 XL

Is the lumia 540 release in uk? Can anyone tell me thank you 

Lumia 735 , but only one SIM @stefan

Don't get confused ! Pick a Lumia 730. It's better than 5 & 6 series @Susmit257

Does anybody know of a high end 4g dual sim? I want to use my business number and private number on a single phone.

Ah ah , but customers of MS badly needs a flagship !

its getting more confusing now, 535, 640 now 540, all these 3 has 5" display and nearly the same design...compared to nokia, microsoft is doing a good job in terms of specs but the designs of nokia lumias were superb , from 520 to 1520, each one looked awesome. 

Lumia 430,432,435, 520,525,530,532,535,540,620,630,635,638,640,640 XL,720,730,735,820,822,830,920,925,928, ICON, 1020,1520.

I was thinking about buying 640 but now 540 has 5MP selphy camera with inferior sd200 processor.....

Its like 520 , 620 , 720
Same hardware but different camera and screen size..

WTF
Buy a budget Lumia and you get a 5MP wide angle selphy camera.....whereas buy a midrange 830 Or flagship 930 you get a 1MP VGA like selphy camera.....Not Happy.

I'm starting to get a bit of a similarity with the Lumia phones released by Microsoft. A good similarity. 1GB RAM on all their phones. That's pretty good. Even the small looking Lumia 532 and Lumia 435 have 1GB RAM. Microsoft has it all figured out!

True successor to Lumia 520

Off topic:

The top 10 smartphones at coolbleu.com (a big online electronic store)here in the Netherlands exist completely out of the new Galaxy S6 and the S6 Edge (different storages and colours) and the Lumia 535 (Which has been number 1 for weeks here for) at the fifth place, and the Lumia 640 at the ninth place.

Pretty nice, it means it's outselling the iPhone, atleast at Coolbleu.com ;)

http://www.pdashop.nl/category/6747/top-10-smartphones.html?_ga=1.222543...

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640/ xl announced yesterday down under and today another handset gets announced, interesting times.... Now my 630 is appearing like a joke!

No flash? Why do backward, the last 500 series phone had a flash, why go backward?

oohh..suppose to be snapdragon 400 instead of 200..???

Fuck ms

8MP? My 730 has only 6.7 ! And its also costlier!?!. It seems MS have no love for 7xx series. :P

This will 'kill' 640 for sure. Only benefit is that 640 has a LTE variant, while 540 does not. There is lsight bump in battery capacity, but only marginal in terms of practical use. However, it is $50 dearer than 540.

Users won't care about SD 200 or SD 400 at entry levels. They even have the same clock speed. Plus 540 has a better front camera. I don't see any logic in buying a non-LTE version of 640 after reading about this.

535 upgrade?

At least MS should give us 5 or so flaghips so we can choose the one we love better. And they are getting really good at cheap phones so they better not cost more that $400. That's what we deserve after all the waiting....

Great. More devices= More market share.

Fix the app gap then release more models Microsoft !!!!

Is it a dual shot cover? I wish 640 had this too.

I know what I said before guys but heck IDK. I'm starting to find all these different budget Lumias a little confusing.

This is similar to what they did with the 525. Either way these phones are attractive and keep the signature design. I see alot of cheap phones that are pretty ugly. I remember a 520 user told me they liked it because it's cheap and looks good. I'm excited to see what the x4x series will bring. Specially a possible 740.

Wow I think next in line would be 740, 840, 940, 1040? Holy molly! Great scott Batman!

I fucking hope they don't start naming them in decimals, like 340, with flash, 340.1 with dual flash. And I also hope this flooding works for them, as much as I hate this.

I want a 1040! Not some cheap devices! Soon well be getting a 340

Need a 740

Still Snapdragon 200, even slower than my 535 since the display is 720p. 

This seems to be a device to fix the touch screen woes as well as reputation the 535 lost coz of it and put forth as a new device.

Can't wait for Lumia 840.

Wow that is dirt cheap
Microsoft really upping their game in the low end
I think this will sell a lot

A 1030 & 1530 would be nice now, rather than a jump from 20 to 40... But if they can go from 8.1 to 10, anything is possible

No gorilla?

Ok, so I'm not a supporter of 'where is flagship!', but even now it's getting really confusing..640 and 640XL were just launched few days ago, hardly people have started to buy it, then this..why not take all the Nokia branded lumias from consumers, scratch the name Nokia, and add the weird Microsoft writing in that place!!..guess that will help u spread ur name rather than making a decent line of phones..still, this is coming from a non-flagship-flagship guy..guessing how this kind of decisions for developing countries, where people still go for SAMeSUNG or any other androids, will actually be able to help the 3% market share..

In a few months lumia 595 will b available! Then what??

comparison with L535?

What's the difference between 535 and 540??

And it comes with the 8.1 update 2 ryt?

How worse is snapdragon 200 compared to 400?

wtf... i just bought a Lumia 535 yesterday and now they release the same with 720p display and 8MP cam...

Thanks Microsoft..

Isn't this what Nokia used to do as well, flood the market with phones, and therefore we shouldn't be surprised that MS is doing it to as they DID buy the Nokia phone division?

List price $150, real price $25? Why would you get this when the 635 goes on sale for $50?

So what is the use of 640?

So we're the first, and sometimes the only ones, to get low end phones...but the last ones to get high end phones... Ja neh. Lol it sucks

* Counts the number of times "flagship" appears in the comments...

Price..???

I need one :(

Be awesome if they release a genuine flagship with dual sim

Awesome. I'm all for the ridiculous amounts of low end phones. They don't seem to end up all at the same place so it's not like we are over flooded and it's a good sign that shows MS obviously thinks the strategy is working and they must be making some money to keep going with it. Hopefully not long and we will hear of the new flag ships which I now need seeing as I cracked the screen on my precious 930.. Doh!

Reminds me of Apple.. Same specs diff price! [not too much as of Apple]. L640 itself costs 12K INR, now L540 has 5MP Front cam, no wonder if MS will put a price tag around 15K..

Hey WC. Could you make an easy to understand list of all of the new MS Lumias? It's getting very confusing to tell the lot a part. Perhaps making it a continued updated article. Thanks

There's has been too many Lumia devices released recently, it's difficult to keep track and differentiate. Are Microsoft Samsung in disguise, with saturate-the-market-with-too-many-handset-series-which-look-and-function-the-same strategy? It's not necessarily a bad thing, but there's little differentiation.

Good strategy Microsoft

Whew...For a minute there I was worried there wouldn't be enough low/mid range Windows Phones this year. /s

When in Colombia?

They aren't letting their products settle down snd they introduce a new phone. Business is to earn profit with less resources for a longer time. 535 is going good right now and they are releasing 540. Assholes. Lumia 640 is such a good phone with the price quoted that a consumer will splurge a little bit to get Lumia 640 bcoz its worth buying. Microsoft is faikimg here to convince ppl with one device. Don't know what's their objective with low end Lumia devices.

Too many numbers

A perfect replacement for my 535

Not another budget phone..

Ha ha absolutely superb from Microsoft. They are just flooding the market with uncountable low end devices in the emerging markets just as Samsung did 2 years back and Micromax is doing now...this will invariably lead to more sales and I am actually seeing it reap benefits actually. When you know go into a store and ask for a cheap phone they are showing lots of Lumia phones like there's no Android ones in the market. And to the guys in Europe and US and everywhere else I feel for you and me about the lack of exciting phones and flagships...we can absolutely whine about it to Microsoft but this strategy is giving them lots of sales and no one can deny that

Awesome strategy people. They are flooding the market with low ends to increase market share. Tons of Nokia feature phone owners are the target here. Wait for W10 for high end phones. Makes complete sense

Yes MS is refreshing their line of phones..taking a different route than Nokia....X30 dual core , X35 quad core non HD displays...X40 with HD display and quad core...

Wtf i am already confused and the problem is that even if i still keep my self informe more phones wtf

Noooooooooo... And I just got a 535 today morning.!! No no no. Daymn.

Also refreshing the entire line makes them removing the 1520 from sales make more sense. Since it will draw people who may want one to it when it's brought back with better specs, instead of keeping them from buying the new because they got the old one.