Nokia Lumia 1520: Smartphone With Windows 8.1 OS by Microsoft

With the surprising acquisition of Nokia by computer software giant company, people are already wondering what kind of maneuver do Microsoft planned for the smartphone market. Do they need Nokia to raise their mobile Operating System Windows Phone, or they just want to compete with Android and iOS as the market leader of mobile smartphone all over the world.

And finally after the release of their newest smartphone, Nokia Lumia 1520 which is using Windows Phone version 8.1 by Microsoft, most people were aware of the answer. This smartphone is no joke at all, with amazing 20 Mega Pixels camera and Full High Definition (Full-HD) resolution 1080p screen and a Quad Core processor, it is definitely an absolute competitor for Samsung's Galaxy S5 which is using Android 4.4 KitKat and Apple's iPhone 5s which is also preparing for the new iOS version 8.0 updates. Then what about Blackberry? They are now sinking to the bottom of the sea because of their failure to read the smartphone market development, and by letting Blackberry App World not well developed, they already digging their own grave. Along with those marvelous features, Nokia Lumia 1520 came a surprisingly cheap prices compared with their rivals. In Indonesia, Nokia Lumia 1520 is only priced at Rp 8.000.000,- (equal to US$ 700,00), almost more than Rp 2.000.000,- (nearly US$ 180,00) cheaper than iPhone 5s.

This can be a huge leap for Nokia to it's campaign as they want to take back their stature as the king of the world cell-phone manufacturer. As we all know, Nokia was once became the only king of world cellular phone manufacture with their hundred of million best selling cellular phones. After the booming of Android smartphones, Symbian were dead and Blackberry were drowned. Meanwhile iOS and Windows Phone were struggled in smartphone market. iOS can be considered as a well-established operating system, with a good environment of games and application developers, so they have no worry about Android Market (now Google Play) rapid development. But Windows Phone are moving slowly, and their environment also need more push to be a good app store like Android's and Apple's store.

I really hope this new Nokia smartphone can bring the victory they had once, a long time ago. That can only achieved by developing the Windows Phone games and application store. If it is easy to use, and there are a lot of free apps and games available, people are likely to accept the product well. The key is on their platform and operating system.

Microsoft with their new toy should learn from what happened to Blackberry. When they fail to accommodate the need of good application's environment like what Android has, people will start to leave them soon enough. Blackberry definitely failed to develop Blackberry App World, and now we all can see clearly where them at on the list of successful smartphone manufacturer.

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