Microsoft Lumia 650 has great features

It is the Volkswagen (before its recent problems) of the SmartPhones. It has great features looking at its specs which I have reproduced here from Microsoft Site.I have a Lumia 950 myself, a great phone.  My wife has a iPhone 6S both are comparable phones and we often exhange notes. Sure, iPhone 6S has a nice color and you can download apps and apps. Live tiles in Windows Phones is a great feauture and as is Cortana.

It is economical and can be even used in enterprise scenario as security is throughly addressed:

Mobile VPN,
Secure identities,
Remote lock and wipe,
Mobile device management,
Data protection under PIN lock,
Remote security policy enforcement,
Hardware accelerated device encryption
Supported security standards: SSL v3.0, TLS v1.0, TLS v1.1, TLS v1.2, Suite B ciphers
Wi-Fi security modes: WEP, WPA, EAP-AKA, EAP-SIM, EAP-TLS, WPA-Personal, PEAP-MSCHAPv2, WPA2-Personal, WPA-Enterprise, WPA2 (AES/TKIP), WPA2-Enterprise, EAP-TTLS/MSCHAPv2
If you are looking to buy a smart phone it is really worht considering.  Lumia 650 dimensions are a little larget than that of iPhone SE another low cost contender as seen here:
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Apple iPhone SE
Dimensions 123.8 x 58.6 x 7.6 mm (4.87 x 2.31 x 0.30 in)
Weight 113 g (3.99 oz)

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Lumia 650
Height: 142 mm
Width: 70.9 mm
Thickness7: 6.9 mm
Weight: 122 g

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Compare for yourself the features of these two low cost smart phones recently released:
https://www.microsoft.com/en/mobile/phone/lumia650/specifications/
http://www.gsmarena.com/apple_iphone_se-7969.php

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