Nokia Expands Its Smartphone Lineup

With Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics constantly vying for the top spot, Nokia is unveiling new cost-efficient models that it hopes will inch the company toward the highly coveted smartphone trinity.

Nokia on Monday debuted four new phones: the Lumia 520, Lumia 720, Nokia 301 and Nokia 105.

“I think that with the Lumia 520, Nokia is really going to take the Windows 8 operating system to a much bigger, mass market,” said Pete Cunningham

, an analyst at Canalys, a research firm in Reading, England, to The Times. “I would expect their volumes of Lumia shipments to now start increasing slowly, but they still have a way to go.”

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