The cheap Lumia 650 has more metal than the pricier Lumia 950 (hands-on)

 

 You wouldn't expect a lower-end phone to look flashier than its higher-end compatriot, and that's the Microsoft Lumia 650's biggest surprise.
The 5-inch Windows 10 phone has an aluminium frame, while the Lumia 950 and 950 XL have a plastic casing, despite being seriously high-end under the hood. We got our hands on with the new phone at Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona, Spain.
The materials swapperoo seems counter-intuitive to us -- why give a
device that costs just $200/£160/AU$299 the metal frame while the significantly costlier flagship phones bear the budget feel?

To be clear, it's just the frame that's metal here on the Lumia 650. The backing is still plastic, so you can remove it to get to the Micro SD slot and removable battery, which are both nice things to have in a phone these days.
The phone felt incredibly light in the hand and was easy to pocket. Its AMOLED display is a nice touch, making colors appear rich and contrast high. When you look closely at its rims, you can see the chamfering on the phone's metal edges.
Still, at this price, you're not packing in top-of-the-line components.

• 5-inch OLED display at 1,280x720 resolution
• 142 mm by 70.9 mm by 6.9 mm and 122 g (5.5 by 2.8 by 0.27 inches and 4.3oz)
• 1GB RAM
• 16 GB storage with Micro SD Card up to 200GB Qualcomm Snapdragon 212 quad-core processor running at 1.3 GHz
• 2,000 mAh
• Category 4 LTE
• 8-megapixel rear camera and 5MP front facing
• Black and white colors