The wide world of Windows Phone 8 handsets (roundup)

Lumia 720 is a pared down 920

Say "Windows Phone" and two handsets pop into my mind: Nokia's Lumia 920 and HTC's Windows Phone 8X, both released this past autumn.

But that's not it for Windows Phone. Nokia is especially fierce, announcing the inexpensive Lumia 520, which will land at T-Mobile, and the Lumia 720, which is destined for other shores.

Pair these budget handsets with Nokia's Lumia 620 and you'll start to see how Nokia, for one, is planning to take all echelons of its global marketplace by storm.

Yet even though Nokia is committed whole-hog to the Windows Phone platform, it isn't the only phone-maker to play in Microsoft's sandbox. HTC, Samsung, Huawei, and ZTE are all continuing to create for Windows Phone, though Samsung's efforts have severely dropped off, where Huawei's are perhaps just beginning.

Here's a collection of some of the Windows Phone handsets you can get today.

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