The online Microsoft Store has reduced the price of the Nokia Lumia 521 Windows Phone 8 smartphone just as the holiday shopping season ends.

Previously priced at $99, the Lumia 521 can be purchased on the online Microsoft Store for $69. Back on Dec. 1, the online Microsoft Store had priced the Lumia 521 at $79.

The online Microsoft Store will also ship the Lumia 521 for free.

The official T-Mobile website is offering the Lumia 521 at $0 up front. With the $0 up-front offer, the T-Mobile customer will have to pay $5.25 for the next 24 months. If the consumer cancels the wireless service, the remaining balance on the Windows Phone 8 device will be due. T-Mobile is also offering a $20 app credit with every purchase of a Nokia Lumia device and a $10 charge for a SIM Starter Kit.

On Amazon, as of Christmas Eve, the Lumia 521 could be purchased for $97.93, which is a savings of $52.06 or 35 percent from the original price. The Lumia 521 was previously listed at $149.99 for its original price.

The Lumia 521 sports a 4-inch touchscreen and 5-megapixel camera with 720p HD video recording. When it comes to memory, the smartphone has 8GB of internal storage with 512MB of RAM. A microSD card slot is available for an additional 64GB of storage. The battery capacity for the Windows Phone 8 smartphone is 1,430mAh.

As Latino Post reported, the Lumia 521 was named the most utilized Windows Phone device in the U.S. with a convincing 22.8 percent market share, beating fellow Windows Phone gadgets such as the Lumia 520, Lumia 920, Lumia 1020, and HTC 8X, to name a few. T-Mobile, however, represented as the third popular Windows Phone mobile carrier provider in the U.S., after AT&T and Verizon Wireless, respectively.

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