Windows Phone sales warm up in July

Source: StatCounter Global Stats - Mobile OS Market Share

Windows Phone devices enjoyed a healthy bump in sales for July, at least relatively speaking.

Citing the latest stats from StatCounter, Windows Phone blogging site WMPoweruser noted a 23.5 percent increase in European market share this month, giving Microsoft's mobile OS a 1.68 percent slice of the market.

Of course, that number still places it far behind Apple's iOS, Android, BlackBerry OS, and even Nokia's Symbian. But any upturn in market share, however small, at least shows that Nokia's Lumia phones are starting to gain some traction. Specifically, the latest growth was likely boosted by the May launch of the Lumia 610 and 900 handsets across Europe.

From June to July, Windows Phone's market share grew by 66 percent in Italy, 29 percent in France, 27 percent in Germany, and 18 percent in the U.K. Growth in the U.S. came in at 18.6 percent. Nokia recently ... [Read more]