The giant IT Company, Microsoft is known for its innovative software solutions around the world. One can never imagine computing without the support of any Microsoft’s software. Although, there are other players in the software industry, but Microsoft is undoubted the best. When it comes to Operating System software, Microsoft Windows is the most popular name amongst all computer and laptop user.
Following the same, Microsoft launched its operating system for smartphones platform. But Microsoft’s Windows Phone here failed to create that illusion which it did for computers and laptops. The toughest competition from Google’s Android Operating System for Smartphones is the biggest obstacle in Windows Phone’s success path. It failed to serve a vast number of useful applications, games and other features which Google’s Android did.
Nonetheless, the Smartphone manufacturers launched a couple of Smartphones running on the Windows Phone operating system. The list included the number one brand Samsung, Nokia and HTC. In the year 2013, HTC and Nokia launched a couple of Windows Phone Smartphones. Samsung didn’t launch any Windows Phone in 2013. But the ones from HTC failed. The Finnish Smartphone manufacturers, Nokia who develops high end Smartphones only on Windows Platform managed to get an appreciable success by selling the Windows Phone. This also suggests that Nokia and Microsoft’s Windows Phone OS are currently walking together along the path of success.
The Chinese manufacturer, Huawei is soon going to launch an affordable Windows Phone 8 in India. Tech blog techgreet.com has posted a complete report on this upcoming launch. Read more on the Huawei Ascend W2.
Here, we bring you top 5 Windows Phone Smartphones of the year 2013. We found that only Nokia’s Windows Phone were only eligible to get a position in our list. Hence, we eliminated those from HTC.
Top 5 Windows Phone of 2013:
# 1
Nokia Lumia 1520
- 6-inch ClearBlack IPS LCD Touch Screen Display, 367 pixels per inch
- 1920 x 1080 pixels Display, Corning Gorilla Glass 2
- 2.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 Quad Core Processor, 2GB RAM
- GPU: Adreno 330
- Windows Phone 8 OS
- 20 Megapixels Rear Camera with Dual LED Flash, 1.2 Megapixels Front Camera
- Full HD 1080p Video Recording, Carl Zeiss Optics, Optical Image Stabilization, Panorama
- 32GB Internal memory, Expandable up to 64GB via MicroSD Card
- 4G LTE, 3G, Bluetooth 4.0 with A2DP, NFC, Wi-Fi, Internet Sharing (Wi-Fi Hotspot), GPS with A-GPS, GLONASS, OTA Sync, microUSB 2.0, USB
- 3400mAH Battery
# 2
Nokia Lumia 1320
- 6-inch IPS LCD Capacitive Touch Screen Display, 245 pixels per inch
- 720 x 1280 pixels Display, Corning Gorilla Glass 2
- 1.7GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Dual Core Processor, 1GB RAM
- Windows Phone 8 OS
- 5 Megapixels Autofocus Rear Camera with LED Flash, VGA Front Camera
- Full HD 1080p Video recording @30fps
- 8GB Internal Memory, Expandable up to 64GB using microSD Card
- 4G LTE, 3G, Bluetooth 4.0 with A2DP, EDR, Wi-Fi, Internet Sharing (Wi-Fi Hotspot), GPS with A-GPS, GLONASS, microUSB 2.0, USB
- 3400mAH Battery
# 3
Nokia Lumia 1020
- 4.5-inch ClearBlack Pure Motion HD+ Touch Screen Display, 334 pixels per inch
- 768 x 1280 pixels display, Corning Gorilla Glass 3
- 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Dual Core Processor, 2GB RAM
- GPU: Adreno
- Windows Phone 8 OS
- 41 Megapixels PureView Rear Camera with Xenon Flash, 1.2 Megapixels front Camera
- Dual Capture feature, 6 Lens Optics, Optical Image Stabilization, Full HD 1080p video recording
- 32GB Internal Memory, No MicroSD Card slot
- 4G LTE, 3G, Bluetooth 3.0 with A2DP, Wi-Fi, Internet Sharing (Wi-Fi Hotspot), NFC, GPS with A-GPS, GLONASS, DLNA, OTA Sync, microUSB 2.0
- 2000mAH Battery
# 4
Nokia Lumia 920
- 4.5-inch ClearBlack PureMotion HD+ Touch Screen display, 332 pixels per inch
- 768 x 1280 pixels display, Corning Gorilla Glass 2
- 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon Dual Core Processor, 1GB RAM
- Windows Phone 8 OS
- 8.7 Megapixels Rear Camera with Dual LED flash, 1.3 Megapixels Front Camera
- Carl Zeiss Optics, Optical Image Stabilization, Full HD 1080p video recording
- 32GB Internal Memory, No MicroSD Card Slot
- 4G LTE, 3G, Bluetooth 3.1 with A2DP, Wi-Fi, Internet Sharing (Wi-Fi Hotspot), NFC, GPS with A-GPS, GLONASS, DLNA, OTA Sync, microUSB 2.0
- 2000mAH Battery
# 5
Nokia Lumia 520
- 4-inch IPS LCD Capacitive Touch Screen Display, 233 pixels per inch
- 480 x 800 pixels display, Scratch-Resistant Glass
- GPU: Adreno 305
- 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon Dual Core Processor, 512MB RAM
- Windows Phone 8 OS
- 5 Megapixels Autofocus Rear Camera, 720p Video recording @30fps
- 8GB Internal Memory, Expandable up to 64GB via microSD
- 3G, Bluetooth 4.0 with A2DP, Wi-Fi, Internet Sharing (Wi-Fi Hotspot), GPS with A-GPS, microUSB 2.0
- 1430mAH Battery
