It's over

Did you hope to see new Lumia terminals this year?_ Well, you can wake up from the dream and arm yourself with patience, because after the arrival of the latest model on the market, the Microsoft Lumia 650, everything indicates that we will not see new terminals with the Lumia seal until we are at the gates of 2017 or even when we have already crossed them.

The reasons that can be read on ZDNet, are very well argued by Mary Jo Foley and suggest that from Redmond they have slowed down the development of the second Redstone updateand for now they will focus on a first update that would arrive in June looking to fix bugs and improve convergence.

In this way we would not see a path similar to that undertaken with Windows 10Threshold, which did have two updates, something that initially It was also intended for Windows 10 Redstone, as the first _update_ should be out in June and the second _update_ in November. Now everything seems to indicate that this update will not arrive until spring 2017.

What could cause this delay?

We have complained actively and passively that one of the problems in which the lack of sales of phones with Windows Phone lies is the small number of models that exist on the market and it seems that from Microsoft they've seen the problem (or so they might think) and prefer to focus their efforts on preparing new models even if that means delaying the second Redstone _update_.

Some devices that would see the light of day at the beginning of 2017 and that would ruin the hopes of many of seeing, for example, a successor for the Microsoft Lumia 1020 before finishing

Zero hopes?

Everything seems to indicate that this is the case, although Mary Jo Foley herself reserves a little space for hope in case she finally the expected Surface Phone or the Lumia appears, which with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor could be glimpsed thanks to the GFXBench application.

For now, this is something that Microsoft itself has not yet confirmed (it was to be expected), although all indications seem to point to this fact ; half a year blank without seeing new Lumia arrive on the market.

The problem we also find is that unlike Android, for example, where phone manufacturers number in the tens and the models in the hundreds, for terminals with Windows, the releases, not only Microsoft's own, but the rest, are quite rare, so more than half a year without seeing new models while the competition does not stop launching options on the market may, at first, not seem like a good idea.

Via | ZDNet In Xataka | Lumia 650, first impressions: renewing on the outside but preserving on the inside