Nokia sees strong demand for smartphones and camera phones in 2005
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Nokia has forecast that smartphone shipments worldwide are expected to increase to 238 million units by 2008, up from 23 million this year, according to Anssi Vanjoki, executive vice president and general manager of multimedia at Nokia.
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Nokia, the world's top cellphone maker, reported a 57 percent rise in earnings per share in the October-to-December quarter, with booming demand in emerging markets boosting its global market share to 40 percent.
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GLOBAL handset sales rose to record levels in the second quarter, putting the industry on track to ship 650 million cell phones in 2004 as market leader Nokia halted its decline, a survey said.
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Nokia announces some key deals to position itself in the future market for smart phones and music players.
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Nokia Oyj, the world&#39;s largest mobile- phone maker, plans to introduce more than 20 handsets featuring cameras with at least 1 megapixel resolution next year in a bid to regain lost market share.
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Nokia , the world's top cellphone maker, reported a 57 percent rise in earnings per share from October to December, with booming demand in emerging markets boosting its global market share to 40 percent.
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Nokia reported a 44 percent rise in net profit for the fourth quarter, on sales that increased 34 percent. The company estimates 1.14 billion phones were sold in 2007, 40 percent of them bearing the Nokia brand.The company made net profit for the quarter of &#8364;1.84 billion ($2.7 billion as of Dec. 31, last day of the period reported), up from &#8364;1.27 billion a year earlier.Sales for the quarter rose to &#8364;15.7 billion from &#8364;11.7 billion a year earlier. Growth was dampened by the weakening dollar: at constant currency rates, sales would have grown by 40 percent, the company said.Nokia is counting on its&#160;acquisition of digital mapping data provider Navteq, and its move into the Internet services business, to drive future growth, Chief Financial Officer Rick Simonson said in a conference call with analysts.Basic mobile phones sales now account for less than half the group&#39;s revenue, down from 60 percent a year earlier. Although sales volumes increased, the average selling price of such phones dipped from &#8364;89 to &#8364;83.Around the world, shipments in the quarter increased 26.5 percent, with growth topping 40 percent in Asia. Growth could have been faster were it not for shortages of certain components, Nokia said. Sales fell in North America, Nokia&#39;s smallest geographic market, where shipments dropped 13.6 percent to 5.1 million phones. Nokia blamed the drop on its progressive withdrawal from the market for phones based on CDMA technology, used mainly in North America, to focus on the GSM technology used worldwide.Nokia&#39;s multimedia division saw a 42 percent increase in sales, to &#8364;3.03 billion, and a doubling of operating profit, driven by the success of consumer smartphones such as the N73 and N95, which the company describes as &quot;multimedia computers.&quot; It shipped over 11 million Nseries devices and over 2 million of its Eseries enterprise devices during the quarter.New phones and multimedia devices that began shipping in volume during the quarter accounted for about 30 percent of profits and revenue, said CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo.The company also saw sales more than double at Nokia Siemens Networks, its network equipment joint venture with German conglomerate Siemens.Looking ahead, the company expects mobile phone sales to dip slightly in the first quarter, picking up to grow 10 percent for the full year. It also expects its share of that market to grow, although average selling prices will likely continue to decline, it said.&quot;Much work remains in order to realize our ambitions,&quot; Kallasvuo said. &quot;We will not underestimate the competition.&quot;Nokia will have to address its problems in North America if it wants to increase its share of the mobile phone market further, said Gartner research vice president Carolina Milanesi.The company is working with U.S. operator&#160;Sprint Nextel to build a nationwide WiMax network, but Milanesi does not expect sales of WiMax devices to compensate for the company&#39;s falling CDMA market share during 2008.&quot;It&#39;s not going to happen overnight,&quot; Milanesi said.Simonson found a silver lining to the cloud over Nokia&#39;s performance in North America: with such a small share of the U.S. market, the company has little exposure to the country&#39;s economic troubles.
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The world's largest mobile phone maker, Nokia, said that the next generation of 3G mobile phones and handsets with music players would drive the sector this year.
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Leading mobile phone maker Nokia  (NOK1V.HE) said on Thursday it would introduce three new phone  models to its line-up, two of them mid-range and one at the  higher end of the market.
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By MATTI HUUHTANEN    HELSINKI, Finland  -- Nokia said Thursday its third-quarter revenue and profits would be better than expected, citing an increase in mobile phone sales. The news pushed its shares up nearly 6.5 percent in trading...
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Nokia unveiled a mobile phone for  business users on Thursday that incorporates a camera with a  megapixel resolution, beefing up a patchy handset portfolio  that has cost it market share.
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Nokia , the world's largest  cellphone maker, said on Monday it had begun global shipments  of N81 and N81 8GB multimedia phones.
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The world's top cellphone maker,  Nokia , unveiled on Tuesday several new mid-range  phones at an analysts' meeting in Amsterdam.
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Nokia  hopes to launch six  to 12 new phones customized for North American carriers in  2008, versus three in 2007, as the company aims to improve its  No. 4 U.S. market share, the president of its North American  business said on Wednesday.
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Robust demand for cheaper phones boosted third-quarter earnings at Nokia Oyj, the world's biggest maker of mobile phones, with the better than expected result sending its shares sharply higher.
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Nokia is reorganizing to seize growth opportunities for converged multimedia phones.
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Nokia continues to ship more cell phones than any other company.