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Nokia Lumia sales have reached 1.3 million
FINNISH PHONE MAKER Nokia's Lumia handset has sold an estimated 1.3 million units, according to analyst estimates.
According to Bloomberg, analysts estimated a figure of between 800,000 to two million in sales of the Nokia Lumia, with only one analyst guessing a figure of below a million.
It comes after Nokia lost $19bn in market value in 2011.
"The numbers look promising," said Espen Furnes, an Oslo- based fund manager at Storebrand Asset Management, which sold Nokia shares last year. "If Nokia is able to have a strong launch and surpass at least 1 million and keep that type of momentum, this would help put them in a credible position that is crucial to winning back investors."
Nokia is likely to say it had a fourth quarter loss of $119m when it reports its earnings on 26 January.
The Lumia 800 went on sale in Europe on 14 November, and the lower cost Lumia 710 started selling in four Asian markets and Russia in December.
Analysts added that Lumia sales might reach 3.2 million units this quarter as the handsets gain traction in Asia.
The Nokia Lumia 800 is Nokia's first Windows Phone handset in its partnership with Microsoft.
Although the analysts' outlook is an improvement, Lumia sales aren't exactly going to set the world on fire. It is estimated that there are over 700,000 Android activations every single day, a figure that dwarfs estimated Lumia sales of 1.3 million phones in three months. µ
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"Android is a platform, Lumia is a phone."
Shall we add on all the other Windows Phone products and see if it gets to a *guess* of 2 million, then?
When Nokia is supposed to be the white knight of WinPhone, saying that you can't compare a platform to a phone is like saying that you can't compare any RIM's product sales to the rest of the market because there's only one vendor of RIM's platform and that "it's not fair - there are more of them!"
People compare Apple's product sales to everything else all the time. But you're using the loser's excuse.
Android is a platform, Lumia is a phone. That Android number comes from atleast 20 manufacturers that range from phones, tablets and even netbooks that come with Android. In all fairness, the 2 Lumias have unexpectedly done better in Asian markets which has been Nokia's stronghold. Let Nokia come out with next releases and then it will be an interesting battle of the mobile OSs
Am surprised actually it's that high. Not as an insult at Nokia, or MS in this, but the utterly feckless mobile companies.
I recently was looking for an upgrade, and fancied trying a Lumia to replace my Desire. What an utter fight! T-Mobile said don't touch it, it's Nokia, and Nokia's are crap! quickly following by it runs Windows as well, it can't get worse trust us...in the end he groped around a draw and pulled out a Lumia which as expected had no charge. Thanks a bunch T-Mobile!
Next up was the Carphone Whorehouse, nope didn't have any on demo. One woman said nope, don't touch it. But manager guy seemed to over hear and jumped in and said it's actually pretty good but they didn't have any.
So off I wonder again to Phones4U before finally getting to play with one on a demo counter. Must admit, it was bloody fast compared to Android for a single core cpu etc.
But the issue here with the Lumia isn't the hardware or OS. It's the utterly inept and annoying phone companies trying to sell it, or not sell it as the case maybe. Quiet sad really when all I wanted was a toy with one and ended up having to wade through so much grief.
"Android sales figures are presumably for devices from multiple hardware manufacturers, so why compare that to sales for one device from one hardware manufacturer?"
Because Nokia had most of the pie once upon a time. Don't think for a moment that a breakdown of Android manufacturer numbers would suddenly put Nokia on top of the pile again.
Android sales figures are presumably for devices from multiple hardware manufacturers, so why compare that to sales for one device from one hardware manufacturer?