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Nokia Lumia Midas – The first Windows Phone with 3D touch

Lumia McLaren , the unreleased smartphone developed by Nokia and Microsoft is known to almost all Windows Phone enthusiast. Both Nokia and Microsoft were also working on  several Windows Phone prototype with 3D touch display , one of the first Windows Phone with 3D touch was the Nokia Lumia Midas. Nokia Lumia Midas utilised a new technology called 3D touch. Both Nokia Lumia Midas and McLaren were cancelled because the 3D Touch technology was unlikely to be ever feasible. The Midas could have been the father of McLaren, it was actually the first phone with 3D touch technology that was later implemented on the McLaren. A new report claims that Nokia Midas development dates back to 2013, a year before the McLaren. The strange prototype was supposed to be known as Lumia 920 and even the features would have been same. The two noticeable changes are 3D touch and the phone’s design. Nokia developed Midas only to test the 3D touch feature, as a result, the design of this prot...