AdDuplex give the Windows Phone breakdown for April: The Lumia 920 is now the Windows Phone king!

   Windows Phone is always an interesting operating system to follow because it has one of the world's biggest companies behind it, it's widely considered to be a fantastic operating system and yet somehow Microsoft and Nokia in particular, just can't quite get it to catch on the way iOS and Android have!

   That being said there's been a bit of growth lately, but the guys over at AdDuplex have used their tracking software, which people put in apps, to give us a much more rounded idea of how well the platform is doing and which devices in particular are stealing the limelight!

   The one device which seems to be setting the ecosystem on fire is the Nokia Lumia 920. Nokia's flagship is now the most popular Windows Phone out on the market and it's finally knocked the Lumia 800 off the top spot for the first time! As you can see in the pie chart below, other phones are selling really well too, with the Windows Phone 8 powered range from the 620, through the 820 to the 920 all starting to catch up with their Windows Phone 7 counterparts which were released the year before! We're surprised to see just how few devices HTC have sold, given the amount of HTC 8S' which we've been seeing around lately, so perhaps we live in a particular hotspot for the device!

   The comparison between Windows Phone 7 and Windows Phone 8 sales is also interesting lately with Windows Phone 8 now starting to assert the sales authority on its older sibling in many of the key countries from Microsoft's perspective. Through the majority of Western European countries and indeed in the US, Canada and Australia there are now more Windows Phone 8 handsets than Windows Phone 7 handsets in the wild!

   The final thing which we wanted to point out from AdDuplex's findings was that, in the key market of the United States, Nokia are the most popular Windows Phone manufacturer with 66% of the market. After the Finns it's interesting to see that Samsung's Omnia and ATIV ranges haven't proved very popular, especially not compared to HTC's devices. It'll be interesting to see whether or not Nokia can continue to grow in the United States, which is a market they've traditionally struggled in!

   If you want to read more about the platform then AdDuplex have lots more comparisons and country specific breakdowns on their website which you can find here!
Via WindowsPhoneDaily.

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Samsung announce the Galaxy Tab 3!

   Samsung's back at it again with an update to their insanely popular Galaxy Tab range! This time the South Koreans have announced the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3! This time again the Tab is a budget device, so there's modest specs this time and lets have a look at them!

    This time you'll have a solid 7 inch WSVGA screen, that's 1024 x 600p which gives you a PPI of 169, and it's a TFT LCD panel, which isn't the best in this day and age, but it should get the job done in this sort of device. What you'll be using on that screen is Android 4.1 Jelly Bean which as you would expect will have the Touchwiz overlay, but things should be relatively snappy on the unspecified dual-core processor which is clocked at 1.2Ghz and is backed up by 8 or 16GB of internal storage which can be expanded by SD cards up to 64GB and there's a solid 1GB of RAM on board too. Your money also gets you a couple of cameras; the rear one is a 3MP sensor and round front there's a 1.2 mega-pixel shooter which will definitely be good enough for video chatting.

   Other than that there's a great 4,000 mAh battery which should keep the screen on this thing going for most of the day if you're a heavy user and it'll let you make full use of the range of sensors here too. On the Tab there's everything you'd expect really; there's Bluetooth 3.0, A-GPS and Glonass, USB 2.0 connectivity

   The only things which concern us here are the older version of Jelly Bean because we're not sure how forthcoming updates will be, perhaps there will be one at some point in the future, but we do expect this to be a cheap tablet and that should help us gage where our expectations should be. If you're interested in the device then you can pick it up in either a Wifi-only configuration, or you can get one with 3G connectivity, that latter is 4 grams heavier than the former at 306g. Unfortunately there's no word on pricing or availability, but we'll be sure to let you know if we hear anything! Perhaps the Asus FonePad will be a good competitor to this if this device comes in at anything more than £200! The full press release is available here!

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