Windows Phone sales over the Christmas period up 5 times over past year sales

As we all know, Microsoft rarely talks about real sales figures of the Windows Phone smartphones. This time too, even though they were declared the sales numbers, it turns out the growth had over the Christmas period compared to last year.

Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, during the keynote Qualcomm has made a brief appearance where he stated that lasted the Christmas period, the number of WP smartphones  was 5 times higher than the same period of previous year. This growth obviously coincides with the release of the first Windows Phone 8 smartphones, with lower prices for the with Windows Phone 7.5 on board.

WMPoweruser , according to information provided by Facebook on users active Windows Phone, made ​​the chart below where we can see the growth of users in the last three months of 2012, compared with those of 2011.

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