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This time its a REAL Prototype from Nokia. May be Nokia plans to release a phone Next year (2011) with this shape. And this will be Super cool!
Nokia faced another difficult quarter for its devices and services division, as the financials struggled in the competitive smartphone market
Nokia has reported difficult results for the second quarter as it continues to feel the squeeze from Apple and others in the smartphone market.
Nokia had already downgraded its outlook for the second quarter for devices and services, and said net sales would be at the lower end of, or slightly below, the previously expected range of €6.7 billion to €7.2 billion. This was primarily due to lower than previously expected average selling prices and mobile device volumes.
Reported net sales in the devices and services segment came in at €6.8 billion, up three per cent from the second quarter of 2009 and two per cent from the first quarter of 2010.
However, Nokia said net sales for devices and services would have declined two per cent had the results been reported at a constant currency rate.
Operating profit in the division fell 16 per cent to €643 million and the operating margin shrank from 11.6 per cent to 9.5 per cent over the year.
Latin America was a particularly key market for Nokia, with the value of sales up 31 per cent year-on-year and 28 per cent quarter-on-quarter. Sales in Greater China were also up 21 per cent year-on-year, although down 6 per cent quarter-on-quarter, while in Asia-Pacific sales were down year-on-year but up 13 per cent since the first quarter.
Net sales in Nokia’s biggest market Europe remained fairly stable, while North America recorded a 16 per cent decline year-on-year. The Middle East and Africa saw a 10 per cent fall in net sales year-on-year and a seven per cent negative swing quarter-on-quarter.
Sales of feature phones were down four per cent year-on-year to €3.4 billion, although business in what Nokia reports as ‘converged mobile phones’, including smartphones and mobile computers, added 12 per cent to net sales year-on-year to take it to €3.4 billion.
Nokia said the total volume of mobile devices it sold during the quarter was 111.1 million, an eight per cent growth year-on-year. It estimates 338 million units were shipped by the industry as a whole during the second quarter, up 14 per cent over 2009, giving it a 33 per cent market share.
Nokia added that the industry as a whole shipped 59 million smartphones and mobile computers during the quarter, while it moved 24 million units over the same period. This was up 42 per cent from a year ago and gives Nokia a 41 per cent market share, according to its own estimates.
In terms of volume, North America was the only market to see a year-on-year fall, down 19 per cent, with Latin America accounting for 11.2 million of the 111.1 million units shipped, a 26 per cent increase.
Price pressures and higher sales of lower priced smartphones led Nokia’s average selling price (ASP) to decline from €64 in the second quarter of 2009 to €61 in the second quarter of 2010.
The ASP decline was more marked for smartphones than feature phones, and fell from €181 in 2009 to €143 this year. Quarter-on-quarter, there was a €12 decrease in the smartphone ASP, which was cited as result of “price pressure in certain high-end smartphones”, namely the iPhone 4, and a strategy to sell devices at a lower price point to reach a wider group of consumers.
Nokia chief executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said: “Despite facing continuing competitive challenges, we ended the second quarter with several reasons to be optimistic about our future.
“For one, the global handset market has continued to grow at a healthy pace, led by some of the less mature markets where Nokia is strong. We are also encouraged by the solid second quarter performance of our mobile phones business, helped by an improving line-up of affordable models.”
Nokia said it is working on a family of phones built on the Symbian^3 platform that will give it broader reach and appeal.
Kallasvuo said: “In smartphones, we continue to renew our portfolio. We believe that the Nokia N8, the first of our Symbian^3 devices, will have a user experience superior to that of any smartphone Nokia has created.
“The Nokia N8 will be followed soon thereafter by further Symbian^3 smartphones that we are confident will give the platform broader appeal and reach, and kick-start Nokia’s fightback at the higher end of the market.”
Nokia just announced their Q2 financial results. To summarize - sales are up, profits are down, shifting currency exchange rates didn't help and smartphones have sold more units and have gotten cheaper, compared to previous periods.
The net sales for the Nokia Corporation 10 005 million euro (12.842 billion US dollars) and the net operating profit is 660 million euro. Net sales are 1% higher than the year ago quarter and 5% higher the previous quarter. However, operating profit has fallen.
Looking at just the mobile phone division, it has net sales of 6 800 million euro (3% higher YoY and 2% higher QoQ) and 643 million euro operating profit - 16% down YoY and 23% down QoQ.
"Converged mobile devices" (that is smartphones and mobile computers) accounted for just over half of those sales. That's 12% more sales than converged devices managed in last year's second quarter.
This is likely due to the noticeable drop in the average selling price for smartphones - it's 143 euro (184 USD) for the second quarter of this year, down from 181 euro (232 USD) for last years Q2. That's a 21% drop. Feature phones have a mostly stable average selling price of 39 euro.
Nokia attributes the falling gross margins to "price pressure" in the high-end segment and depreciation of the euro. Industry-wide shortages of some components had a negative impact on sales and Nokia predicts those shortages will continue into the third quarter as well.
For much more numbers and details, check out the full report.
We have just got some News that Nokia is now getting a New Community project by Nokia developers for making a New Mobile phone from the Nseries Family but that can Take Nokia to the top Again. The New Phone will have a Full QWERTY Keyboard and 8MP camera with Dual-LED flash, a 4.0 TFT Capacitive touch screen and with Symbian^4 on it. All that beside the Default Features as Bluetooth 3.0 + EDR, WiFi 802.11b/g, A-GPS, FM Radio, USB-on the-GO and Many Other Features that will make this phone in the top for All People who looking for High-Performance Full-option Mobile Phones. But we don’t have any confirmation about the CPU or RAM of this Device but I thought it will have 512MB RAM, 256MB ROM and an ARM-Snapdragon 1GHZ processors.
Wait for Our Full Review of the Upcoming N9
Cellphone concepts are a dime a dozen, but a couple of particularly interesting ones have cropped up in recent days, including Andrew Kim's HTC 1, and this so called Nokia Kinetic concept from British designer Jeremy Innes-Hopkins. Obviously, the most eye-catching aspect here is that prominent base, which is not simply a design flourish but actually houses an electromagnet that allows the phone to spring up on cue when an alarm goes off, for instance, or during a hands-free video call (simply flip the phone back down to dismiss the action). It's also not quite as chunky as it might look Jeremy tells us that the top half of the actual prototype is just 8mm thick, while the bottom is 18mm, and he notes that the base also conveniently doubles as a more camera-like grip for taking photos.
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Nokia Siemens has just announced that it will be purchasing Motorola's wireless network for $1.2 billion. This comes on the heels of an announcement by Moto that it would be splitting the company in two, one for Mobile Devices and one for Broadband and Mobility Solutions.
It's clearly the company's strong showing in both WiMAX and CDMA that Nokia Siemens is after, although The New York Times points out that integrating the 7,500-strong staff, manufacturing, supply lines, and multiple product lines will be quite a challenge. The deal will hopefully be finalized by the end of the year.
It's been a while since we last heard something on Symbian^4. While ^3 is yet to roll out, its successor already showed its face. The shots are taken from an emulator of the OS, but there's no wow factor yet.
The shots below clearly demonstrate the new homescreen, pop-up menus, widgets, dial pad, etc.
Here is some other Lower Resolution screenshots The things we still miss here are some 3D effects or transparency. At this stage we can’t simply put Symbian^4 to its current rivals. BTW Nokia is Leaving MeeGo for High-end devices ONLY!
