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Nokia made record sales of Windows Phones sales in the third quarter of 2013, thanks largely to its low-end models: 8.8m Lumia handsets were shifted, up from 7.7m in Q2.
The mobile-phone division, for which Nokia has accepted a bid of €5.44bn in cash from Microsoft (pending approval at a shareholders' meeting), recorded revenue of €2.89bn, down 19 per cent year on year, and a small loss of €86m, or €47m non-IFRS.
Revenue from 'Smart Devices' rose to €1.25bn, up from €976m this time a year ago. However, this includes sales of 5.9 million Asha full-screen "smartphones", which run a tarted-up Series 40 OS. Symbian sales were 3.5m a year ago, but "approximately zero" in Q3. And mobile phone sales are significantly down from a year ago, although 55.8m units sold represents an increase from the previous quarter.
To put that into perspective, Apple's "flop" iPhone 5C phone, which borrows its design aesthetic from Nokia's distinctive Lumias, is expected to ship between 10m and 11m units in its first quarter when Apple reports its numbers later.
The smartphone Average Selling Price (ASP) of €143 per device reflected the dominance of low cost models. Nokia doesn't break out sales by model, but AdDuplex (which monitors a small sample of ad-supported apps on a given day) saw 23.2 per cent of traffic coming from the Lumia 520 and a further 9.2 per cent from the Lumia 620 - the two cheapest Lumias.
Nokia said the lower ASP to "was primarily due to lower recognition of deferred revenue related to services sold in combination with our devices and lower sales of accessories" along with currency fluctuations - offset by a shift towards the more expensive 1020 and 925 Lumias.
As part of the Microsoft deal, Nokia stays in Finland, keeps the Networking group, the HERE maps division, and the patents in an "Advanced Technologies" group. Microsoft acquires 32,000 employees whose work generated €14.9bn of revenue in 2012, almost half of Nokia's gross income.
The deal is expected to close in Q1 2014, Nokia confirmed today.
So Nokia Siemens Networks becomes Nokia's primary cash cow. The NSN division saw revenue of €2.53bn in Q3. ®
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Nokia made record sales of Windows Phones sales in the third quarter of 2013, thanks largely to its low-end models: 8.8m Lumia handsets were shifted, up from 7.7m in Q2.
The mobile-phone division, for which Nokia has accepted a bid of €5.44bn in cash from Microsoft (pending approval at a shareholders' meeting), recorded revenue of €2.89bn, down 19 per cent year on year, and a small loss of €86m, or €47m non-IFRS.
Revenue from 'Smart Devices' rose to €1.25bn, up from €976m this time a year ago. However, this includes sales of 5.9 million Asha full-screen "smartphones", which run a tarted-up Series 40 OS. Symbian sales were 3.5m a year ago, but "approximately zero" in Q3. And mobile phone sales are significantly down from a year ago, although 55.8m units sold represents an increase from the previous quarter.
To put that into perspective, Apple's "flop" iPhone 5C phone, which borrows its design aesthetic from Nokia's distinctive Lumias, is expected to ship between 10m and 11m units in its first quarter when Apple reports its numbers later.
The smartphone Average Selling Price (ASP) of €143 per device reflected the dominance of low cost models. Nokia doesn't break out sales by model, but AdDuplex (which monitors a small sample of ad-supported apps on a given day) saw 23.2 per cent of traffic coming from the Lumia 520 and a further 9.2 per cent from the Lumia 620 - the two cheapest Lumias.
Nokia said the lower ASP to "was primarily due to lower recognition of deferred revenue related to services sold in combination with our devices and lower sales of accessories" along with currency fluctuations - offset by a shift towards the more expensive 1020 and 925 Lumias.
As part of the Microsoft deal, Nokia stays in Finland, keeps the Networking group, the HERE maps division, and the patents in an "Advanced Technologies" group. Microsoft acquires 32,000 employees whose work generated €14.9bn of revenue in 2012, almost half of Nokia's gross income.
The deal is expected to close in Q1 2014, Nokia confirmed today.
So Nokia Siemens Networks becomes Nokia's primary cash cow. The NSN division saw revenue of €2.53bn in Q3. ®
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