Nokia has reportedly made more money from Apple's iPhone than its own range of Lumia smartphones.
According to AppleInsider, Nokia has made more income from licensing patents used in the iPhone than selling its Windows Phone-based Lumia devices. The firm reported a loss of $1.7bn for the first quarter but managed to collect $600m from Apple.
It's more bad news for Nokia after ISH iSuppli announced today that Samsung has taken its top mobile vendor crown in terms of units shipped in the first quarter of this year.
If it can't reverse its fortunes selling Windows Phone 7-based Lumia phones, Nokia is likely to convert itself into a non-practicing entity going after other smartphone makers, or it may choose to sell its broad patent portfolio to another firm, potentially including Microsoft itself." said AppleInsider.
Nokia will be hoping to turn its fortunes around with the UK launch of the Lumia 900. The release date has been pushed back a couple of weeks due to 14 May due to high demand in the US.
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URNumber6 said: Whens the last time you saw a Symbian phone being marketed in the UKIll wager it was over a year agoIn Q4 2010 Elop closed the Symbian Foundation in Q1 2011 he announced with great fanfare that Symbian which had by far the largest global market share at the time was obsolete and NOKIA would instead be adopting the smartphone OS with the smallest market share in the industryIm sure it was purely coincidental that he also happened to be a major shareholder in the company that had produced that proven failure of an OSRather unsurprisingly carriers and retailersstopped stocking and marketing Symbian phonesTo buy a Symbian phone in the UK youd have to specifically go looking for oneThe reason Lumia 900 has been delayed in the UK is probably not because of high demand in the USA either its more likely because of the high return rate - these devices have the highest return rate of any device in NOKIAs entire historyThey are being manufactured in two different plants the ones being manufactured in Mexico are having data connectivity problems and are probably being swapped for devices from the other plant as dissatisfied customers are bringing them back
cornerofthemoon said: Im a recent WP7 convert My Nokia 710 has the best touchscreen keyboard Ive ever used and by now I think Ive tried almost all of them
PST said: You are talking a hot steaming pile of Elop Lumias are selling better than Symbian not because Lumia sales are surging but because Symbian sales have collapsed due toElop announcing that Symbians will be discontinued once Nokias Windows phones are introduced
John Williams said: What a stupid article Lumia devices have only been out for a few months and are already selling better that symbian devices in the UK The Lumia 900 is selling like hot cakes in the US so much that Nokia cant keep up with demand unfortunately i havent got time to write down all the facts but look at this and im sure you will learn morehttpwwwwpsuperfanboycomn