More than half of phones with Windows Phone are Nokia

A survey published by Localytics shows that Nokia is dominating the smartphone market with the Microsoft operating system. The Windows Phone is the bet of the Finnish company to boost its sales in this market environment where the operating system is already a strong point in the choice of devices.

Worldwide Nokia holds over half of the market share of Windows Phone 7 handsets. They crossed the 50% mark in May and have continued their ever upwards trend since then.

 Global Windows Phone usage 

To give a push on WP7, Nokia received a "check" of $ 750 million from Microsoft. That way the Windows Phone grew up 312% in the first half of this year.

In the USA, a market that Nokia has been desperately hoping to recapture, things aren’t quite as rosy. The first Lumias hit US shores in January this year, so the company got a slow start. It climbed into second place in May but is still 4 percentage points behind the leaders, HTC.

 United States Windows Phone usage 

The good news is Nokia does hold a third of the market in the USA and WP share there has grown 273% since the beginning of the year.

Note that all those numbers are irrelevant compared to Windows Phone 8 will not be updated on current smartphones with WP7, only up to WP 7.8.

Windows Phone 8 will come with many improvements and support for a wider range of hardware.

Nokia is feeling confident in the next-generation Lumia phones, that will come on September 5 this year.