The Top-Shelf Microsoft Lumia 940XL Tipped to Come with Iris Scanner

Being one of the largest software makers, Microsoft has shown off its dominance in this realm as well as given a straight challenge to Google and Apple by introducing its avant-garde firmware, Windows 10 that includes a plenty of brilliant features. And, we are also acquainted with the next objective of tech giant, where it is reportedly working on two high-end smartphones: Lumia 940 and Lumia 940XL in order to capture the highly-competitive segment of mobile phones.

Well this time, we are going to discuss about Lumia 940XL that is tipped to be engineered with iris scanner. By the courtesy of @evleaks, it has come into view that corporation will comprise eye-based biometric solution embedded into front camera of device in order to improve security and privacy levels. Notably, Microsoft is not the first ever mobile maker who is going to adopt eye-recognition technology because Vivo, ZTE and Samsung have already utilized this highly accurate security functionality in their products.

Apart from a reliable biometric system, forthcoming phone purportedly codenamed as Cityman has been rumored to be decked with a 5.7 inch QHD display and might incorporate an octa-core Snapdragon chipset. If the reports are to be believed, then we will get a 20-megapixel rear alongside a 5-megapixel selfie snapper into this upcoming member of Lumia family.

Lumia 940XL and its smaller sibling: Lumia 940 (5.2 inch screen size) will probably come with Windows 10 Mobile, which will arrive later this year. To remind you, Redmond giant had released Build 10080 of Windows 10 Technical Preview for phones back in May. Click Here to know all the features of this platform.

Source: @evleaks, Phone Arena