The modern UI of large typefacing, tiles and horizontal views has been pioneered and tweaked in many consumer products, From the first Windows Media Centers, through the Zune music players, and refined in the Windows Phone 7 range, Metro UI was the clean style of interface that has now been iterated into the latest products.

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The company formally announced the Liquid E1 last month, but with Mobile World Congress around the corner, the mid-range phone just got official for the European market.

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The mid-range Lumia phone sales have to ramp up fast over the next six months or Nokia is going to face a very hard tumble in LatAm and Asia Pac regions during the spring.

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