January ends like December on Windows Phone: Nokia and the Lumia 520 keep their distance

AdDuplex today released its report on the state of Windows Phone in January 2014 and how the share is divided among the manufacturers of the platform and its terminals. But let no one expect surprises, because there they continue, with little change, Nokia with its absolute dominance and the Lumia 520 confirming its throne as the best-selling smartphone with Windows Phone.

The Finnish company and its low-end mobile continue to gain market share, although at a slower pace than in other months. Something that is easy to understand when the manufacturer already accumulates 92.3% of the Windows Phone 8 market and its entry mobile represents 31% of smartphones with the system.

The surprising note of the report is given by the percentages of Windows Phone 7 (21.7%) and Windows Phone 8 (78.3%)No change can be seen in them compared to the previous month when the logical thing is that the latest version would continue to gain ground. The explanation is in the way how AdDuplex collects the data, based on the use of the 2,899 applications that use its SDK. During the Christmas days it is possible that the growth of Windows Phone 8 was overrepresented with users downloading and installing applications more frequently. In the month of January things would have returned to normal and hence the lack of growth between each report.

Among those mobiles with Windows Phone 8 the update GDR2 continues to be the most installed version and is present in 67.3% of the devices. GDR3 is gradually gaining presence but for now it has only reached 14.7% of mobile phones with Windows Phone 8.This percentage is still less than the 18% that still have GDR1 installed.

A couple of interesting pieces of information remain in the form of unknown devices that have started to appear in AdDuplex reports. One is the recently discovered Samsung SM-W750V that they have been able to spot several times connected through Verizon. The data would confirm that it would be a smartphone with a 1920x1080 resolution, but it indicates a 4.3-inch screen and not the 5 expected. The other is a new Nokia mobile identified with the code RM-997 In this case it seems that we are talking about a low-end smartphone, with 4 inches and resolution of 800x480, whose presence seems to have only been detected in China.