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Nokia Lumia is Nokia's main smartphone platform. We currently have 618 Lumia/Windows Phone articles in this Wiki.

Winners Announced (04 Jan 2013): Congratulations to all our Windows Phone 8 Wiki Competition winners. The winners will receive a brand new Nokia Lumia device running Windows Phone 8.

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How can you help?

We need innovative, real world and "unique" articles showing:

• Best practices and tips and tricks for writing great Windows Phone apps.
• How to use hardware and services that are unique to Nokia Lumia devices
• Integration with Nokia Windows Phone apps and services (like Nokia Music API, Here Drive, Here Maps etc) if these expose a public developer API

Other article types are welcome, but remember we want articles that are complementary to (and add value over) the existing resource on MSDN/DevCenter.