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Late last month we reported on a rumor that said Nokia was going to introduce two new color variants of the Lumia 800. The French website MonWindowsPhone said that white and yellow will soon join the existing color choices: black, cyan (blue), and magenta (pink). What they failed to say was when those color variants would launch and in which markets. Now thanks to XDA Developer forum member “fshqbizfs”, who was “playing with my app that browses nokia firmwares”, we now know that Nokia plans on brining a white Lumia 800 to Switzerland. Also in his firmware app are indicators that there are several different models of the Lumia 800: versions 1 for example exists in Spain, France, and the UK, which are the first markets that got the device; version 2 is in Ireland, Norway, and Taiwan; and version 3 is in Singapore and Hong Kong. What exactly are the differences between these versions? Will we ever find out?
The more important question is of course how well are these devices selling? It doesn’t make sense to introduce so many color variants if they’re going to just sit on store shelves. We know Nokia is due to report their Q4 2011 financial results on the 26th, but depending on who you ask the company sold either 800,000 Lumias or more than 2 million. Considering the Lumia 800 went on sale on November 16th in the UK, that means it had only 6 weeks to contribute to Nokia’s numbers. We’re hoping Nokia breaks down sales for smartphones based on operating system, because if they don’t then they’re going to have analysts breathing down their necks.
@WhatTheBit they wont show lumia i think. Only smartphones in total. In pr case they could count new smarts as 2mln (thats not wp7, all new)
— Eldar Murtazin (@eldarmurtazin) January 24, 2012
Earlier today we spoke to Eldar Murtazin, Editor in Chief of Mobile-Review, and he predicts that Nokia will announce that they sold 2 million units of the smartphones they introduced in Q4 2011. That’s a very short list: the Nokia 603, Lumia 710, and Lumia 800. The Nokia N9 started shipping less than a week before the start of Q3, so that’ll likely get lumped in there as well.
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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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