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Jumat, 19 Oktober 2012

Nokia outs Q3 2012 results, reports reduced operating loss

Nokia's financial results for Q3 2012 are out and things are still looking grim for the Finns, which have reported an operating loss of $754 million.

If you recall, for each of the last three quarters Nokia had to report north of a $1 billion loss. That's why the company had to undertake some unpleasant job cuts and we guess the results are starting to show up.

There's more bad news for Nokia, too, as the company only managed to push 76.6 million featurephones, from which the Asha lineup accounted for 6.5 million units. The really bad news is that Lumia sales have dropped to 2.9 million (from a total of 6.3 million smartphones shipped) compared to last quarter's 4 million. The Windows Phone 8 launch just couldn't come soon enough for the Finns, which are now facing a do or die situation.

The report also shows that Nokia Siemens Networks managed to make a profit of $238.5 million, managing to helping the company in these hard times of transition to Windows Phone. Speaking of that, Microsoft also chimed in with their $250 million cheque for the quarter.

Lastly, Nokia reports cash reserves of $4.66 billion, which doesn't compare particularly favorably to the $6.64 billion the company had in its pockets at the same point of last year. In the report, the company issued a warning towards investors that the upcoming Q4 quarter will still be bumpy. The reason, as Stephen Elop puts it is "product transitions and our ramp up plan for our new devices."

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Eliana Adriana Chandra Buana

Kamis, 05 April 2012

Android share surpasses 50% in the US, comScore reports

The analysts from comScore have just published their report on the US smartphone market and it tells a rather different story from the one from the Nielsen numbers published last week. According to comScore Android has not only passed the 50% market share mark already, but it's also still the biggest gainer in the smartphone race.

According to the new report, the Google OS powers 50.1% of all smartphones in the US, with iOS running on 30.2% of them. That's a ways off the 48% vs 32% breakdown that Nielsen reported, and we're frankly not sure who to believe here.

And things get even more confusing when you look at the recent acquirers numbers. Nielsen said that iOS has almost caught up with Android over the past three months (getting a 43% share to the 48% of the green droids), while comScore now says that the Google OS is the fastest growing platform gaining 3.2 percent points in the past three months alone. Apple's iOS on the other hand has a reported growth of 1.5 percent points.

One thing the two tech analysis companies are unanimous in is their claims that RIM's BlackBerry and the Microsoft's Windows Phone platforms are doing pretty badly (although again there're some differences in the exact numbers quoted), losing market share with each passing month. If they don't pick up their game soon, the smartphone race might soon turn into a dual.

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Eliana Adriana Chandra Buana