the Lumia 640 XL. Only a few days later the former
model has already been put up for pre-order in the
Microsoft store for Germany, France and UK.
There are, however some interesting inconsistencies
across the stores. While the latter two offer the
Dual-SIM version of the handset, the UK store
has listed, what appears to be the single-SIM
variant. To further confuse things, prices also appea
r to differ. The German store, which was indeed the
first to put-up the offer, has set a price of EUR 159,
whereas the smartphone goes for EUR 179 on the French website.
This might be due to TAX differences, but the fact
that the single-SIM model is listed for GBP 169.99,
or about EUR 236 in the UK page is quite puzzling.
All of the devices are, however described as
LTE-enabled. The UK store does also state that the
Lumia 640 will be available starting April 7, whereas in
the German and French sites this date has been pushed
forward to April 16. Despite the odd, inconsistent listing
the fact is that Microsoft doesn't intend to waste any time
getting the smartphone on the market.