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Nokia has just published their Q2 2011 financial results and there’s a lot of data to parse through here, so let’s start with the big numbers: 9.275 billion Euros worth of sales were made in Q2, which sounds impressive, but it isn’t because the Finnish handset maker failed to make a profit and instead managed to lose 487 million Euros. In terms of actual devices shipped, Nokia only moved 88.5 million units globally, down a whopping 20% compared to the same quarter last year. The territories with the biggest year on year volume losses are North America (42%), Greater China (41%), and Nokia’s home turf, Europe (30%). The only territory where Nokia actually managed to increase year on year sales is Latin America, up 10% to 12.3 million units. Breaking the devices down to smartphones and mobile phones, Nokia managed to ship just 16.7 million smartphones in Q2, down 34% from the same quarter a year ago. The average selling price for said smartphones actually increased 3 Euros however (year on year), to 142 Euros. Mobile phones hit 71.8 million units, down 16% year on year, with an average selling price of down 1 Euro from a year ago to 36 Euros.
Interesting tidbits from the press release:
“The challenges we are facing during our strategic transformation manifested in a greater than expected way in Q2 2011.” — Stephen Elop, Nokia CEO
Nokia has 3.9 billion Euros worth of cash saved up.
Q3 2011 expectations are to break even, plus or minus 2%.
“Our overall Devices & Services net sales in the second quarter 2011 benefited from the recognition of approximately EUR 430 million of IPR royalty income related to the second quarter 2011 and earlier periods recognized in Devices & Services Other net sales.” — That’s a nice way of saying “money from Apple”.
“During the second quarter 2011, distributors and operators purchased fewer of our devices across our portfolio as they reduced their inventories of Nokia devices.”
Interesting tweet from Tomi Ahonen, ex Nokia employee turned consultant, publisher of several books: “so without the Apple settlement, Nokia actually made over 1 BILLION dollar LOSS in handsets!”
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Stefan Constantinescu
Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.
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