Lumia 520/521 Account For 30% Of All Windows Phone Devices Around The Globe
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As Nokia gears up to hand off its Lumia brand to Microsoft, one must look back and see what the Finnish manufacturer was able to do right. Time and again it has been reported that the low cost Windows Phone devices, Lumia 520 and Lumia 521, have proved to be major hits. Latest data from Ad Duplex reiterates that, with both variants accounting for 30 percent of all Windows Phone devices being used around the globe. In the U.S., the Lumia 520 has overtaken the Lumia 920 as the second most used Windows Phone device. Of the entire Windows Phone market in the U.S., the Lumia 520/521 command 30 percent.
The popularity of T-Mobile branded Lumia 521 has propelled the carrier ahead of AT&T as it now has the second most Windows Phone devices on a U.S. carrier. The future of these devices in the country is uncertain. While Nokia has launched the Lumia 525 which has roughly the same specifications as these two devices but comes with twice the RAM at 1GB, which makes it compatible with latest content on the Windows Phone Store. So far Nokia hasn’t said if it plans to release the Lumia 525 in the U.S. Nokia’s high-end smartphones still struggle in the market, with the new flagship Lumia 1520 down at 16th and Lumia 1020 at 12th on the list of most used Windows Phone handsets. The low cost strategy seems to have worked wonders for Nokia, the question is, will Microsoft go down the same road once it assumes control of the brand and of Nokia’s hardware business?
Lumia 520/521 Account For 30% Of All Windows Phone Devices Around The Globe original content from Ubergizmo. 
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It was just the other day that many customers online have realized that handsets such as the Nokia Lumia 810 and the HTC 8X are no longer available via T-Mobile’s website, leaving many to speculate about the fate of either device. Thanks to the folks at TmoNews, they have managed to get their hands on what looks like a leaked document from the carrier, indicating that the Nokia Lumia 810 will be reaching an end of life status in May. However considering that the handset was removed from T-Mobile’s site in April, they are speculating that either the handset was removed early, or the carrier has run out of inventory and they have no plans of restocking, especially since we are only a couple of weeks away from May, the handset’s supposed EOL status.
Nokia’s most affordable Windows Phone 8 device in the market to date is the Nokia Lumia 520, which is the moniker that it is called worldwide, but if you so happen to reside in the US of A and are a T-Mobile subscriber, then be prepared to pick it up as the Nokia Lumia 521 from that part of the world. While no specific release date for the Lumia 521 has been shared just yet, its official release should not be too far away from the horizon, as the Lumia 521, going by the model number RM-917, has just picked up FCC approval earlier today.
