Lava International (4.4) operating system. In December 2014, the company launched its first smartphone running on the Windows Phone operating system, the Iris Win1. The Xolo X50 smartphone, which runs on the Android Lollipop (5.1) operating system, was launched in July 2016. In February 2017, Lava launched 4G Connect M14, what it claims is India's first 4G enabled feature phone. Lava is headquartered in Noida sector 64, Uttar Pradesh, India. The company maintains 6 offices and 3 manufacturing and service facilities throughout India. According to the IDC Asia Pacific Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker 2014, Lava's market share in India was 8%. In
Windows Phone 8 WP8, Kantar reported in October 2013 that Windows Phone grew its market share substantially to 4.8% in the United States and 10.2% in Europe. Similar statistics from Gartner for Q3 2013 indicated that Windows Phone's global market share increased 123% from the same period in 2012 to 3.6%. In Q1 2014 IDC reported that global market share of Windows Phone has dropped to 2.7%. Windows Phone 8 Windows Phone 8 is the second generation of the Windows Phone mobile operating system from Microsoft. It was released on October 29, 2012, and like its predecessor, it features a flat user interface