Microsoft has announced yet another affordable smartphone

Microsoft has announced yet another affordable smartphone

Microsoft has announced yet another affordable smartphone
 for the IMEA, Italy, and APAC regions at sub $150 price
 point before subsidies. The new Microsoft Lumia 540 Dual SIM
 will arrive next month and will offer lower midrange specs.

 Worthy successor of the Lumia 530, the Lumia 540 Dual
 SIM features the Smart Dual SIM feature to let you
create unique profiles for each SIM and also stay
connected with call-forwarding. The handset is powered
 by Windows Phone 8.1 with Lumia Denim update out
of the box and it will be upgradable to the Windows 10
when that comes. Lumia 540 flaunts a 5" 720p display
and is powered by a quad-core 1.2GHz Qualcomm
Snapdragon 200 mobile chipset armed with 1GB of RAM.

 Onboard storage is the modest 8GB, but there's a microSD
 card slot for expanding that. Of course you also get gets
15GB OneDrive cloud storage by default and additional 15GB
 storage if auto-upload to OneDrive is activated. Measuring 9.35mm
 thick and tipping the scales at 152g, the Lumia 540 has 8MP
 rear snapper with LED flash and autofocus.