All eyes were on Microsoft's rather important launch of Nokia LUMIA Windows Phone in China earlier this year. Nokia followed up with the Lumia 800c, released on China Telecom. According to Michel van der Bel, COO of Greater China Region at Microsoft, the company has achieved 7% marketshare in the country, overtaking the iPhone (just 6%).

Before you think "well 7% isn't something to get excited about", remember that the platform has only officially been available for just under two months. Windows Phone has captured 7% of the Chinese smartphone market in just 60 days, and the campaign has only just begun.

To prove that the Nokia LUMIA 900 is the World's toughest phone, two Nokia engineers made a Video testing the Lumia 900 Glass.

First they hammer a nail on the screen. Then, to kick it up a notch, they hammer a nail into a piece of wood using the glass side. While it is a little cringing to watch as you expect the glass to shatter, impressively the Nokia Lumia 900 stands up to the test.

The Nokia Lumia 800 has seen numerous firmware updates fixing its battery problems, backlight issues and various bugs. The latest Update fix the volume bug that was reported before by many users of this windows phone. Nokia is releasing the 12072 firmware update, which addresses this issue.

The New firmware also lets the camera automatically detect 50Hz and 60Hz flickering from electronic lights when flicker reduction is on. Power management behavior is improved as well, thanks to better charger recognition, The Update is Now Available on ZUNE.

It looks like Nokia has a massive marketing budget for its latest Windows phone device the LUMIA 900 in order to make people want to buy it... Even Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak wanted to pick one up after breakfast from the nearest AT&T branch to him, according to his own tweet from yesterday.

While this is not the first time Steve has had a chance to sample the competition (he got a Samsung Galaxy Nexus as a gift when he visited Google HQ a few months back), Well, I cannot recall any reports of him actually waiting for a store to open for anything other than an Apple product.

These leaked slides showing off an upcoming WP handset from Nokia, also with the impressive 41MP PureView technology. This device on the slides could be the "Nokia LUMIA PureView".

The Device has a bit ugly design, but some users have said they like the Symbian PureView 808 design so I guess this most of Nokia users will like this device too.

Device specifications According to these slides:

• 4.3-inch Curved Glass touchscreen with HD display

• 41mp sensor, Carl Zeiss lens and PureView imaging technology

• 1080p full HD video recording and Rich Recording Technology

• Dual Core processor with Adreno 320 GPU

• Windows Phone Operating System

Plaffo.com sources at Three (the Mobile Carrier) in Italy has been informed that WIFI tethering and Internet sharing will become available as an update later this month. Samsung Focus S already got the same Update lately.

The feature is of course part of Mango and has been demonstrated on Nokia handsets at Mobile World Congress 2012, but has so far not been rolled out. Plaffo speculates Nokia separated the update from the battery fix firmware so carriers reluctant to enable the feature would not hold back the battery fix.

After the partnership with Microsoft and intoruciong the New "Lumia" series, Nokia is now the KING of Windows Phones Devices Market.

Tom Farrell, VP of Nokia Middle East told Gulf News, "Our strategy is working. When we formed an alliance last year with Microsoft our intention was to regain lost share. After one year, it is still working. We are the number one Windows phone in volume in the world. Our momentum is accelerating." Farrell added, "We plan to introduce and bring to markets new and more affordable products with more modern user experiences with Windows Phone in 2012. We will launch Lumia series when Arabic support is ready."

Kantar Worldpanel latest survey for the 12 weeks ended February 19th shows that sales of the Nokia Lumia 800 models made up 87% of Windows Phone sales in the U.K. during that period. That also helps fatten the Finnish firm bottom line since the average selling price for Nokia handsets last year was only €140 OR $186 USD.

After the Lumia series from Nokia running the latest Windows phone 7.5, Sources from the upstream supply chain indicate that the rumored Nokia Windows 8 tablet "Lumia Tab" to be released by Q4, 2012. Nokia is reportedly going to use a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 chipset for its 10" tablet.

Nokia have apparently outsourced the production to Compal already, with the first batch out of the conveyor belts expected to be 200,000 units. Nokia has given hints and indications before that it might be interested in entering the tablet game.

With only hours left till Nokia press conference at MWC, we have some fresh details and images of the upcoming announcements.

Nokia Lumia 610 pictured below, will be the company entry level Windows Phone handset. The device is expected to feature a 3.2-inch screen, 3MP camera, and Windows Phone Tango on board. Given the nature of the new OS, it should not be a surprise if the device comes with 256MB of RAM.

The Nokia Lumia 610 will reportedly be priced at 175 EURO, when it hits the shelves. India will be one of the first markets to receive the device. Next in line is the global version of the Nokia Lumia 900. The AT&T version caused quite a splash during CES, so there is no surprise here.

A new report out of Strategy Analytics today claims that Nokia took the title of world largest Windows Phone vendor in the last full quarter from HTC, a remarkable feat if accurate, that is considering that it was not even in the Windows Phone business in the quarter prior.

The market intelligence firm reports platform market share numbers throughout the year, and it says that Windows Phone shipped a total of 2.7 million units in Q4, of which some 33.1 percent were Nokia devices nearly 900,000 units. Nokia launched both the Lumia 800 and 710 in certain markets during the quarter, but the deployments were limited: the 710 had not hit either Europe or the US at that point, and the 800 arguably the more important of the two had not come to North America.