Windows Phone Stats: November 2014

In this month's look at Windows Phone handset usages, we see an important milestone being crossed, a big push by this year's low-end devices, and—finally!—news of new Microsoft Lumia handsets, including a few that might be marketed as flagship devices.

As you may remember, AdDuplex bills itself as the largest cross-promotion network for Windows Phone and Windows 8 apps, empowering developers and publishers to promote their apps for free by helping each other. And each month it provides a tantalizing glimpse at which Windows Phone (and Windows) devices people are actually using.

Here's what's happening with Windows Phone usage this month.

Lumia 630/635 continue upward. The Lumia 520 is still in the number one spot with 26.3 percent usage (or 30.2 percent if you add in the 521, which is fair), but its 2014-era replacement, the Lumia 630/635 is doing quite well, with the 630 taking third place in usage, with 7.1 percent, up from 6.4 percent last month. Ad Duplex notes that the Lumia 630 and 635 are "the most popular" of Microsoft/Nokia's 2014 devices. And sure enough, in the US, the 630 and 635 combine for 18.1 percent of the market, good for second place behind the 520/521 with 34 percent of the market.

Windows Phone 8.1 takes over. This month, Windows Phone 8.1 represents over 50 percent of total usage—50.8 percent to be exact—meaning that Microsoft's new OS version is now in use on more handsets than Windows Phone 8.0 (33.5 percent) and Windows Phone 7.x (15.7 percent) combined.

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