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Nokia loses smartphone market share and operating profit, hints at OS
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January 27, 2011 | Devindra Hardawar4 Comments
Despite increased smartphone shipments in the fourth quarter of 2010,
Nokia still lost ground to the iPhone and Android in market share —
something that hurt the phone manufacturer when it came to operating
profit, according to the company’s fourth quarter 2010 earnings report.
But new CEO Stephen Elop has some ideas on how he can turn around
Nokia’s fortune. In particular, he hinted in a call with investors that
the company may consider adopting a competing operating system in its
high-end devices.
Nokia shipped 28.3 million smartphones in the last quarter, an
impressive bump from 20.8 million units shipped a year ago and 26.5
million from the previous quarter. But its market share dropped a
massive 7 points since the previous quarter to 31 percent — a sign that
the release of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 platform, as well as
increasing success from the iPhone and Android, were significant blows
to Nokia’s smartphone presence.
Operating profit dropped to .09b (45 million net) from .47 billion
(50 million net) last year. So while Nokia may indeed be shipping more
phones, they’re likely lower-end dumbphones and feature phones, both of
which are not making the company much money.
The company is still mum on sales numbers of its flagship N8 smartphone,
which is a sign that there’s not much good news to report (personally, I
sort of hated it). We also reported last week that it canceled the
release of its X7 smartphone on AT&T, something that would have been a
major step forward for Nokia in the US, and its E7 smartphone has been
delayed for some time.
Nokia’s biggest problem right now isn’t hardware, it’s the company’s
complete inability to deliver a modern OS that can compete with Apple’s
iPhone OS, Android, or even Palm’s floundering webOS. Hype for its
upcoming MeeGo OS has been floating around for years, but the company
has still failed to deliver anything meaningful on that. So now it has
to rely on its aging Symbian OS, which by this point is just a stain on
the company’s generally slick hardware.
Perhaps in recognition of its current software deficiencies, Elop
mentioned to investors the company’s need to “build or join a
competitive ecosystem” — which is a roundabout way of saying that he’s
considering Android or Windows Phone 7 Nokia devices. We’ve reported on
Nokia’s potential interest in WP7 for months now, and considering Elop
came straight from Microsoft, a move in that direction wouldn’t be all
that surprising. | D******y
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: Nokia loses smartphone market share and operating profit, hints at OS
: switch
: January 27, 2011 | Devindra Hardawar4 Comments
: Despite increased smartphone shipments in the fourth quarter of 2010,
: Nokia still lost ground to the iPhone and Android in market share —
: something that hurt the phone manufacturer when it came to operating
: profit, according to the company’s fourth quarter 2010 earnings report.
: But new CEO Stephen Elop has some ideas on how he can turn around
: Nokia’s fortune. In particular, he hinted in a call with investors that
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