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Nokia Oyj attempt to return to the United States is lower than that of smartphones Lumia unable to consumers to stop snapping up Apple Inc. iPhones and appliances running Google Inc. 's Android software.Nokia shares fell for a second day after the Espoo, Finland-based company announced Thursday it sold about 700,000 units in North America for the holiday quarter, a fraction of the tens of millions of iPhones and Android devices sold in the period. Francisco Jeronimo by IDC in London was among analysts projecting an image of at least one million Lumias.
CEO Stephen Elop has identified the U.S. as an important market in the global recovery of Nokia, and drive the last year AT & T Inc., the second-largest U.S. carrier to sell its flagship Lumia 920. Until now, Nokia has failed to communicate why people should turn to Apple and Android devices, said Louis Landeman, credit analyst at Danske Bank A / S Stockholm."Customers are not just a natural attraction to the name," Landeman said in an interview. "The 700,000 units sold in North America will be improved if Nokia ever the opportunity to strengthen its market share."Nokia also reported a seventh consecutive decline in quarterly and omitted a dividend for the first time in at least 143 years to save money for attempted return.'Very weak'Nokia shares fell 4.2 percent to 3.16 euros in Helsinki 10:24, after falling 5.5 percent Thursday. They have lost more than half their value since February 2011, when he said Nokia phones, the Microsoft Corp. 's Windows. However, the stock rebounded from a low of € 1.37 in July, as investors again the chances of recovery from Nokia.Elop said Thursday that Nokia, Verizon Communications Inc. 's mobile business, the largest wireless carrier in the U.S., as clients and work on the supply problems that slow sales of Lumia.Lumia worldwide sales rose plant to 4.4 million in the fourth quarter. Apple said this week 47.8 million iPhones sold during the period. Android shipments rose to 136 million units in the third quarter, according to research firm IDC."U.S. tumors are very weak," Mikko Ervasti, an analyst at Bank Evli Helsinki predicted that North American sales of 1.2 million Lumias, said in a note to clients. "U.S. will not start as expected."'Too early'Smartphones with Windows Phone, including the Lumia, probably accounting for 3.6 percent of the market for AT & T during the holiday quarter end of the year, according to researcher Kantar. The iPhone accounted for 75 percent, or 20 times more. IPhone and Android devices accounted for 95 percent of the U.S. smartphone market as a whole, according to Kantar."You need to increase sales and to increase consumer Lumias buy," says Morten Imsgard, analyst at Sydbank A / S. "It is too early to see how well you do it."AT & T said Thursday that it sold 8.6 million iPhones in the fourth quarter. AT & T Chief Financial Officer John Stephens, who wears a white Lumia 920, declined in an interview to comment on the total number of sold Lumias. The 920 is one of the newer versions of Lumia, went on sale on November 9, after the quarter began.In a conference call, the AT & T CEO Randall Stephenson said that more phones are coming to Windows, which will provide more competition.Apple slowsWhile Apple maintains its leading position in Nokia smartphones, the shares of the Cupertino, California-based company has been reduced by about one third of the September high on concern growth slows. This week, the iPhone maker posted its slowest profit growth in 2003 and the weakest growth in 14 quarters.Competition for the iPhone than Android devices, and the lack of a new breakthrough product of the 2010 debut of the iPad has led Daniel Morris, chief investment officer of Morris Capital Advisors LLC, to reduce its holdings in Apple."It raises some red flags," said Morris, who bought her first Apple iPhone was introduced before.Once the largest smartphone maker in the world, Nokia had more than 50 percent of the market for the iPhone and Android launched about five years ago. Nokia has lost more than 80 percent of the market and has since dropped out of the top five smartphone manufacturers.Elop, who came from Microsoft in 2010, he began betting on the operating system of his former employer, after the homegrown Nokia Symbian software fell into disfavor with consumers.Nokia with Windows is behind its competitors in the number of available apps, making it harder to convince users to switch, Jeronimo said."Customers just do not know what they can get," said Jeronimo. "They are not familiar with the applications, services, or what the phone can do. This is something that Nokia has to change."
Nokia Oyj attempt to return to the United States is lower than that of smartphones Lumia unable to consumers to stop snapping up Apple Inc. iPhones and appliances running Google Inc. 's Android software.Nokia shares fell for a second day after the Espoo, Finland-based company announced Thursday it sold about 700,000 units in North America for the holiday quarter, a fraction of the tens of millions of iPhones and Android devices sold in the period. Francisco Jeronimo by IDC in London was among analysts projecting an image of at least one million Lumias.
CEO Stephen Elop has identified the U.S. as an important market in the global recovery of Nokia, and drive the last year AT & T Inc., the second-largest U.S. carrier to sell its flagship Lumia 920. Until now, Nokia has failed to communicate why people should turn to Apple and Android devices, said Louis Landeman, credit analyst at Danske Bank A / S Stockholm."Customers are not just a natural attraction to the name," Landeman said in an interview. "The 700,000 units sold in North America will be improved if Nokia ever the opportunity to strengthen its market share."Nokia also reported a seventh consecutive decline in quarterly and omitted a dividend for the first time in at least 143 years to save money for attempted return.'Very weak'Nokia shares fell 4.2 percent to 3.16 euros in Helsinki 10:24, after falling 5.5 percent Thursday. They have lost more than half their value since February 2011, when he said Nokia phones, the Microsoft Corp. 's Windows. However, the stock rebounded from a low of € 1.37 in July, as investors again the chances of recovery from Nokia.Elop said Thursday that Nokia, Verizon Communications Inc. 's mobile business, the largest wireless carrier in the U.S., as clients and work on the supply problems that slow sales of Lumia.Lumia worldwide sales rose plant to 4.4 million in the fourth quarter. Apple said this week 47.8 million iPhones sold during the period. Android shipments rose to 136 million units in the third quarter, according to research firm IDC."U.S. tumors are very weak," Mikko Ervasti, an analyst at Bank Evli Helsinki predicted that North American sales of 1.2 million Lumias, said in a note to clients. "U.S. will not start as expected."'Too early'Smartphones with Windows Phone, including the Lumia, probably accounting for 3.6 percent of the market for AT & T during the holiday quarter end of the year, according to researcher Kantar. The iPhone accounted for 75 percent, or 20 times more. IPhone and Android devices accounted for 95 percent of the U.S. smartphone market as a whole, according to Kantar."You need to increase sales and to increase consumer Lumias buy," says Morten Imsgard, analyst at Sydbank A / S. "It is too early to see how well you do it."AT & T said Thursday that it sold 8.6 million iPhones in the fourth quarter. AT & T Chief Financial Officer John Stephens, who wears a white Lumia 920, declined in an interview to comment on the total number of sold Lumias. The 920 is one of the newer versions of Lumia, went on sale on November 9, after the quarter began.In a conference call, the AT & T CEO Randall Stephenson said that more phones are coming to Windows, which will provide more competition.Apple slowsWhile Apple maintains its leading position in Nokia smartphones, the shares of the Cupertino, California-based company has been reduced by about one third of the September high on concern growth slows. This week, the iPhone maker posted its slowest profit growth in 2003 and the weakest growth in 14 quarters.Competition for the iPhone than Android devices, and the lack of a new breakthrough product of the 2010 debut of the iPad has led Daniel Morris, chief investment officer of Morris Capital Advisors LLC, to reduce its holdings in Apple."It raises some red flags," said Morris, who bought her first Apple iPhone was introduced before.Once the largest smartphone maker in the world, Nokia had more than 50 percent of the market for the iPhone and Android launched about five years ago. Nokia has lost more than 80 percent of the market and has since dropped out of the top five smartphone manufacturers.Elop, who came from Microsoft in 2010, he began betting on the operating system of his former employer, after the homegrown Nokia Symbian software fell into disfavor with consumers.Nokia with Windows is behind its competitors in the number of available apps, making it harder to convince users to switch, Jeronimo said."Customers just do not know what they can get," said Jeronimo. "They are not familiar with the applications, services, or what the phone can do. This is something that Nokia has to change."
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