If Nokia
had anything Microsoft would want
why aren't Nokia using it to generate income and build market share now?
Nokia's results for 2011 show the company has shipped a million Lumia handsets and has cash in the bank, but other than that there's nothing good to report. The results (PDF, dull, dull, dull) show last year's operating profit of €2,070m turned into a loss of €1,073m, based on sales which were down almost 10 per cent compared …
In Canada only Telus list the Lumia 800, but as "coming soon" with no price. Rogers has a Samsung Focus, Bell has nothing. I only checked the big three but I don't expect any of the little guys have any since they tend to sell stuff the big three didn't sell last year... Maybe they will be selling winphone next year.
Elop said '1 million devices to date' - i.e. until today, 26th January. Which means in Q4 it was around 650,000 devices. Considering that includes Christmas it should be ringing all sorts of alarm bells.
http://www.intomobile.com/2012/01/26/did-nokia-really-only-sell-640000-windows-phones-q4/
Hmm, cause they'd rather open wide for Microsoft than market one of the most interesting devices they ever made in major markets. When you see all great stuff Hypernaked is pulling for them in terms of advertising lately you really have to wonder what they could have done for the N9 on the same budget.
at least they had it ready to go *before* Lumia series, and one presumes if they could have focused on it earlier instead of diverting "all their best efforts to Windows Phone" they could have got it out much earlier... And much more polished (and bear in mind this was a device that was extremely well received without that extra polish).
The Verge reviewed the Lumia 800 and said it was good, but that if they'd put the N9 SW, instead of WP on it it would have been a hero phone...
In related news, Nokia is planning to monetize their Precious Intellectual Property by selling 450 patents, amongst which basic GSM patents, to the famous company Sysvel:
http://www.intomobile.com/2012/01/16/nokia-sells-over-450-patents-some-them-deemed-essential-gsm-patent-troll/
The obvious benefit to Nokia is ???
But stage 3 is profit for someone, for sure!