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While most people would think that flagship devices are the most popular, that isn’t always the case. Sometimes, it’s the budget devices that top the list, as is the case with Windows Phone. According to Windows Phone advertising company AdDuplex, the Nokia Lumia 520 is the world’s most popular Windows Phone handset.

Specifically, the Lumia 520 controls 13.3% of the total Windows Phone market, while Nokia itself owns a whopping 85% of the Windows Phone market, mostly thanks to the Finnish company’s big partnership with Microsoft. However, Windows Phone still has a long way to go before it catches up with iOS or Android.

However, that isn’t stopping Windows Phone sales. While the Lumia 520 hasn’t seen exponential growth, its sales have been doing nothing but rising since the phone’s release back in March. Sales numbers aren’t disclosed, since AdDuplex bases its numbers on app adoption.

Nonetheless, it seems Microsoft and Nokia have a hold on the budget device market, while Google, Samsung, HTC, and other big companies have a hold on the top-tier device market. However, Nokia is aiming their sights on that category as well. Their flagship Lumia 920 has been out for some time, and they just recently announced the 1020 with a 41MP camera attached.

As for other Nokia handsets, the Lumia 920 comes in second with 11.8% of the Windows Phone market, followed by the Lumia 620 with 9.6%. Six other Nokia Lumia phones make the list, but the HTC 8X gets sliver of the pie with 3.7% of the Windows Phone market share.

VIA: The Next Web

SOURCE: AdDuplex

Lumia 520 now world’s top Windows Phone as Nokia dominates market is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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It’s time to get wrapped with the Nokia Lumia 1020, protecting the device’s massive 41-megapixel camera lens with a cap in an official Nokia-made leather case. This lovely case appears for now to be coming in just a natural light leather color, but with Nokia’s aim to keep the smartphone world colorful, we must assume the line will expand once things get a bit more official. At the moment this casing takes on the form of the phone as well – real simple.

THis case is made to wrap around the Nokia Lumia 1020 like a glove, leaving no room for the imagination, dust, or credit cards. Here you’re protecting the white, black, or yellow body of the smartphone and that’s that. The front side of this case leaves room for the entirety of the Lumia 1020′s glass display, forming around the edges as tightly as it does around the lens on its back.

The back side has a lens cap that sits on a hinge, one of two darker brown bits that sit around the Nokia brand. This lens cap keeps the entire milk cap-sized lens array for the Lumia 1020, LED flash set, 41MP set of lenses, secondary Nokia brand name and all.

You’ll see this model wrapped around an older iteration of the smartphone, mind you, with “XX” embedded in plastic rather than the current final edition’s “41″. This case has also not gotten a full formal reveal by Nokia as such – this release comes from PureView Club where they’ve posted the casing amongst their own hands-on with the device. Be sure to hit up SlashGear’s Nokia Lumia 1020 hands-on for every up-close view you could possibly want!

Nokia Lumia 1020 leather case with lens cap aims to cure plastic body blues is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Nokia’s Lumia 1020 PureView smartphone will bring its 41-megapixel camera to the UK in September, according to one retailer, potentially two months after the Windows Phone goes on sale in the US. The UK release has been tipped by the Carphone Warehouse – though the retailer warns that it’s subject to change along the way – as right near the end of Nokia’s promised “this quarter” sales schedule.

In the US, Nokia will offer the Lumia 1020 exclusively via AT&T. The carrier will being presales tomorrow, July 16, with the Windows Phone 8 handset shipping from July 26. It’s not an inexpensive device, though; AT&T’s subsidized price is $299.99, with a new, two-year agreement.

Pricing for elsewhere, however, hasn’t been confirmed. It seems Nokia is positioning the Lumia 1020 as a premium device – that 41-megapixel CMOS and the companion six-element lens obviously doesn’t come cheap – figuring it will replace not only your existing phone but a dedicated camera, too; AT&T is yet to discuss off-contract pricing, but we’d guess it would be somewhere in the region of $750.

Your money will get you perhaps the most innovative phone in Nokia’s line-up. From the front, the Lumia 1020 is a 4.5-inch Windows Phone 8 device running Microsoft’s OS on a dualcore 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor paired with 2GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage. However, flip it around and you find the bulge of the PureView camera, which can simultaneously snap 5- and roughly 40-megapixel stills, offers a lossless digital zoom during both image and video recording, and allows for zooming and reframing even after the photo has been taken.

Nokia Lumia 1020 hands-on:

It’s a system Nokia first experimented with on the 808 PureView back in 2012, but that handset’s Symbian OS and chunky styling meant sales were pretty much limited to enthusiasts only.

We’ve contacted Nokia about official launch timescales for the Lumia 1020 outside of the US, but the company tells us it’s still sticking with its Q3 window. There’s more on the Lumia 1020 in our full hands-on.

VIA The Inquirer

Nokia Lumia 1020 UK launch not until September warns retailer is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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