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Nokia shipped 1 million Lumia handsets in 2011

Categories: Nokia, Windows Phone
By: , IntoMobile
Friday, January 13th, 2012 at 12:40 PM
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A couple of days ago we posted a story which had Morgan Stanley predicting 37 million Nokia handsets will ship in 2012. I wrote my concerns about numbers I felt were potentially too optimistic. Well, the folks over at TechRadar spotted a completely different spin on the story, which brings some validations to such a lofty prediction. It turns out that the little 1 above the 2011 column (in the chart) confirms that Nokia has shipped 1 million Lumia handsets in 2011, all within the last 6 weeks of the year. Although these are impressive numbers, we still have to keep in mind devices shipped doesn’t represent those sold.

Since it’s too early to report anything concrete, don’t expect Microsoft to start releasing activation numbers until they have something impressive to announce, instead, rough estimates will be scattered out for the time being. That said, I’ll say it again, Microsoft has an uphill climb when it comes to grabbing some of the consumer mind share away from some of the leaders in the market today. There’s competition all over the place, and with Android and iOS getting better by the year, it’s a daunting task for a new operating system to capture millions of consumers so quickly.

[via WMPoweruser]

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Charles West

Charles has been a cannibal of all things handheld and gadgety for years. Originally from Hartford, CT, where he resides, he longs for great Mexican food and even better technology. Charles considers himself a music snob and sports fanatic who loves occasional benders with friends and family. He has written about the mobile industry for TMCnet and Androinica. He also writes at his own blog The Trendaholic. Look for him on Twitter and Google+

  • http://twitter.com/NotRahmEmanuel NOT RahmEmanuel

    I can understand the need for wishful thinking here, but the numbers you’ve offered won’t support it.

    For a company of Nokia’s size, shipping 1M devices into channel during the intro period (first 30-60 days) is not great news. And it certainly isn’t enough to bring “some validations to such a lofty prediction” as 3M+, monthly.

    With just a little advertising — and far less of it than we now see for WP7 — Microsoft could easily have _sold_ an equal number of WM 6.5 devices (ie: an obsolete OS with no migration path or ecosystem) during the same period.

  • Anonymous

    The little e next to 2011e is an estimate.  It’s an analysts estimate.  Other analysts have estimated anywhere from 500K to 2M units shipped. Nokia seldom breaks out individual SKU’s from overall segment sales…so these numbers are far from official.