In what is expected to the last quarter that Nokia will ever be an independent smartphone maker, Nokia crossed the all-important milestone of selling over 10 million units in one quarter. This is not a huge shock being that units sold have grown slowly over time, and it doesn't seem to be related to any holiday spike in sales. This means that sales should simply continue on this up-word trend and Windows Phone is now a legitimate 3rd place player in the smartphone race. (If BlackBerry's ongoing problems didn't prove that already.)
While 10 million units is small time compared to others like Apple, which is expected to have sold 54 million units last quarter, Lumia sales are a whopping 53 percent up from last year’s Q4 performance. These numbers seem to indicate that Windows Phone sales are growing as expected and makes me wonder if Nokia could have made it on its own without the sell off of its handset division to Microsoft.
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