Nokia has in the last months of 2012, 4.4 million Lumia smartphones sold. This is the sales of its Windows Phone smartphones for the first time are Symbian devices surpassed. The Finnish manufacturer sold a total of 6.6 million smartphones.
Nokia calls the sale of Lumia’s and the results are generally ‘better than expected’, although it had the manufacturer set the bar for themselves is not high. Because Microsoft ceo Steve Ballmer recently said that in the past holidays five times more Windows Phones are sold than in the same period last year, thought some fans that there are in total more than ten million Windows Phone devices would be sold. That seems to be with these figures no longer comply with the order, the sales have to come from Nokia and, to a lesser extent HTC. Samsung had last year, still no Windows Phone 8 device on the market.
With a total number of sold smartphones of 6.6 million, the market share of Nokia probably around 3.5 or 4 percent. Although, still not all quarterly figures are published, it is plausible that the number of sold smartphones worldwide in the direction of 200 million went out last quarter. Samsung and Apple were in the last quarter, most likely the market leader, but quarterly results and estimates of more analysts will have to determine.
Nokia brought in the last quarter, with the Lumia 920 and 820 new devices with Windows Phone 8. These smartphones are not yet in the Dutch shops; and the release in the Netherlands is probably next week. Older handsets from Nokia, like the Lumia 800 and 900, were in the last quarter for lower sale prices than before.
The Finnish manufacturer sold more Lumia’s than ever before, but the difference is not great; in the spring shipped the mobieltjesmaker 4 million Lumia’s. That fell after the announcement of Windows Phone 8 to 1.9 million; devices with Windows Phone 7.5 will get an update. Nokia sold in total in the past few months 86.3 million phones, including 9.3 million Asha phones, which by some market experts as a ‘smartphone’ are marked.
