Nokia has just announced that they will be publishing the fourth quarter and annual results for 2011 this January 26th at 1pm Finnish time. It will be interesting to see how well the new Windows Phones have performed in the market after all the hypes and great marketing Nokia has done. Since Q4 also covers the whole Christmas and New Year shopping season, this is the first real test for the Lumia range.
But remember the Lumia 800 went on sale in only six European countries to start with, in November, at around 420 euros before taxes and subsidies. Here in India we got the Lumia 800 and 710 on December 16th at Rs 29,999 and Rs 18,999. So thats hardly any selling time anywhere, not even in Europe.
Nokia themselves arent promising much. In the Q3 report in October they said they expect the Devices & Services non-IFRS operating margin for Q4 to be between 1% and 5%. Q3 was 9.0 billion euros in net sales and a reported loss of 2 cents a share, so we want to see which way this one moves. And with the Lumia 900 just shown at CES for AT&T, Elop is going to get asked about America as well. Will the Lumia numbers even be big enough to matter ?? We’ll find out on the 26th. Stay tuned.
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