Yahoo! China has some numbers regarding how the recently released Nokia Lumia 920 is doing worldwide, as well as the Lumia 820. They have reported that more than 2.5 million units of the Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 have been either sold, pre-ordered or booked. Those are impressive numbers.

This report comes after Nokia launched the new Windows Phone 8-powered Lumia range officially in Hong Kong. It took just minutes before the Lumia device was sold out on Amazon China in fact. It is either lack of anticipated supply, or overwhelming demand.

Either way, it’s good news for Nokia. People really want both models. Looks like Nokia has reason to celebrate right now.

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British financial institution Barclays Bank has purchased 8,500 Apple iPads, which cost them a hefty £3.3 million ($5.3 million USD). That works out to an average price of $623 USD for each tablet. The bank will use its new tablets for "improving the customer experience.”

We aren’t sure what the bank thought about Microsoft’s Surface tablet, but since the tablets were not purchased until after the Microsoft Surface had launched, we can only guess that Barclays looked at and rejected the Surface in favor of the Apple iPad.

Then again it might have all come down to an app. The company plans on using an app called Mortgage Brain that works only on the Apple iPad and is owned by other major banks like Barclays Woolwich, RBS, Virgin Money, Santander, Lloyds TSB and Nationwide. The app checks the market for mor ... Read more »