While Microsoft’s mobile platform is struggling, a video that reached the web during the weekend shows an unreleased Lumia phone that could have contributed to the overhaul of the operating system that everyone in the community is still dreaming about.

The Lumia 750, codenamed Guilin, was canceled before its launch for a reason that nobody knows right now, even though, as we can see in the video below coming via Nokibar, it appeared to be a rather compelling product for low-budget phone buyers.

What needs to be mentioned from the very beginning is that this phone was projected to launch in 2015, so there’s just a teeny-tiny chance that it can impress with its specs these days.

The mobile industry is evolving at a super-fast pace, and Microsoft is very far behind in this market, though at some point in the past it was actually a pioneer of new technologies - the Lumia 950 XL is living proof, as it was one of the first devices to come with features to turn the phone into a PC and iris scanners.

Tech specs

As far as the Lumia 750 is concerned, Nokibar says its hardware specs bring it closer to a Lumia 555, mostly because it was designed to be in the low-end to mid-range market.

For example, the processor was supposed to be a Snapdragon 210 chip paired to just 1GB of RAM, while storage topped 8GB internal memory plus microSD card support. The phone was developed with a 5-megapixel camera on the back and another one with the same resolution on the front, and featured a 5-inch display with a resolution of just 1280x720 pixels.

The Lumia 750 was by no means a game changer, but it was a model that would have reiterated Microsoft’s commitment to the platform at a time when the software giant struggled to find a way to make its mobile platform relevant.