Nokia Lumia 521 Cheaper at Amazon; Online Retail Giant Undercuts Price of the Carrier Itself

Amazon.com is offering the T-Mobile's exclusive Nokia Lumia 521 at a lower cost than the carrier itself. According to Amazon, the Lumia 521 will sell for $122.18 when it is bought through the website. T-Mobile offers the T-Mobile Lumia for $149.99. When the price is adjusted at Amazon, it comes out to a savings of $27.81 from the original price that’s being offered by T-Mobile.

T-Mobile currently sells Nokia’s Lumia 521 at a price tag of $144. For another $60, T-Mobile offers the Lumia 521 with a refill card and an SIM Starter Kit, which brings the total to $204.

The Nokia Lumia 521 opened sales with a special offer at the Home Shopping Network for $99.95, which went down to $80 if the purchase used the coupon code 135235?. The Nokia Lumia sold over 18,000 units in its first 18 hours. The hanset looks to be on track to sell around 25,000 units by the time the initial 24 hour offer period ends.

The Nokia Lumia 521 handset was one of the best-selling no-contract phones at Amazon.com. T-Mobile was offering strong support with ad displays.

The Nokia Lumia 520 could very well be the key to Nokia’s upcoming success in the United States market.

Because the Nokia Lumia 521 costs over $25, Amazon ships it free of charges.

Amazon offers a “One-Day Shipping” deal with that have the Nokia Lumia 521 to the purchaser’s house by Aug. 9 if they buy it on Aug. 8. The deal ends at 7:00 p.m. EST today. Amazon sasy the one-day shipping offer is part of their Guaranteed Accelerated Delivery. The retail giant said, "If your order meets the qualifications for Guaranteed Accelerated Delivery, we will automatically refund the shipping costs if we miss our delivery promise.”

The Nokia Lumia 521 is 4G enabled. The phone has a 4-inch touchscreen a and 5-megapixel camera that has 720p HD video recording. The Nokia Lumia has 8GB of internal memory storage and 512MB of RAM. Buyers can also get a microSD card slot for another 64GB of storage.