One year later, the Nokia Lumia 520 owns the Windows Phone market

The Lumia 520 (and T-Mobile's lesser known variant, the Lumia 521, in the US), was the sleeper striking of 2022 for Windows Phone 8. Announced nearly one year ago at Mobile World Congress, it seems apropos to see what it's accomplished in that 12 months.

As it turns out, we don't think anyone predicted just how strong the Lumia 520 would have become. Due to its low cost, where it'due south often found well below $90 off-contract, great build quality and all effectually solid user experience, the Lumia 520 has become representative of the Windows Telephone ecosystem.

While that'southward noble, it does continue to highlight Nokia's – and to a greater extent, Microsoft's – problem of gaining traction in the high-terminate market. Indeed, Microsoft and developers were defenseless off guard, catering to the flagship devices when the ecosystem was driving towards budget phones. As a issue, nosotros accept far too many elevation tier games that tin can't run on the well-nigh popular device.

Simply how popular is this Lumia 520? Here's the Lumia 520 compared to all of the Windows Phone market share, accumulated by advertising provider AdDuplex (blog.adduplex.com), for the month of February, hot off the presses. (Numbers in parentheses stand for modify from last month, where available.)

Global 33% (+2%)
US* 42% (+ii%)
UK twoscore% (+2%)
Brazil 40%
Canada 27%
China 12%
France forty% (Jan)
Italy thirty% (Jan)
Republic of india 43% (January)
Russian federation 22%
Spain 46%

*US marketplace with Lumia 520 and Lumia 521 combined

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