Nokia Q4 2009 results, smartphone world market share up 5%

Nokia has released their Q4 2009 results, reporting an operating profit of EUR 1.141 billion, with net sales EUR 12 billion (down 5% YoY). Nokia's device and service division's profits were EUR 1.14 billion, up 130% year on year. Margins in devices and services were 14.9% (up 5.5% YoY and 3.5% QoQ). Converged devices sales (smartphone) were 20.8 million, compared with 15.1 million units in Q4 2008 and 16.4 million units in Q3 2009. As such, worldwide converged device ('smartphone') marketshare increased from 35% to 40% sequentially.

The results are significantly ahead of market expectations, with Nokia's share price up 10% since yesterday.

Olli-Pekka Kallasuvo, Nokia CEO, said:

    "We grew our market share in smartphones in the fourth quarter, driven by the successful launch of new touch and QWERTY models. Our performance in smartphones, combined with continuing success in the emerging markets, helped us increase sales in our Devices & Services unit, both quarter-on-quarter and year-on-year. Our solid results also owe a good deal to world class supply chain management and impressive sales execution.

    I was also pleased with Nokia Siemens Networks' performance in Q4, especially considering the ongoing challenging conditions in the infrastructure market. That performance enabled it to turn in a full year profit on an operative basis.

    Our focus remains firmly on execution, especially around user experience. Here I want to highlight our move to shake up the navigation market with free walk and drive navigation on our smartphones, a good example of how we are leveraging our assets to bring real benefits to consumers."

Points of interest 

    * Nokia mobile device volumes were 126.9 million units, and 12% year on year and up 17% sequentially (not unusual for Q4, which includes the holiday market). This is set against estimated industry volumes of of 329 million units, up 8% year on year and up 14% sequentially. Nokia's overall (phones) market share was 39%, up 2% from Q4 2008 and up 1% from Q3 2009. Average selling price was EUR 63, down from EUR 71 in Q4 2008 and up from EUR 61 in Q3 2009.
       
    * Services and software net sales were EUR 169 million, up 15% sequentially.
       
    * Converged device shipments (smartphones) were 20.8 million (up from 16.4 million in Q3 2009 and 15.1 million in Q4 2009), of which 4.6 million were Nseries and 6.1 million were Eseries. This means that 10.1 million smartphone shipments were numbered Nokia Symbian devices, reflecting Nokia's continued strategy of pushing 'converged' devices into the mid tier (e.g. the 5530).

      This shows continued growth for Eseries sales driven by the advent of the E52, E55 and E72 mass market availability. Nseries devices sales remain relatively flat and are likely to included around 100,000 N900 (Maemo devices). Numbered devices also showed impressive growth against continuing good sales of the 5800 and the advent of the 5530.
       
    * Converged devices sales were higher than expected, with converged device (smartphone) marketshare up 5% from the previous quarter. Nokia converged devices sales growth has significantly out-grown the rest of the market.

      Estimated global market volume was up to 52.4 million from 47 million, which means that of the 5.4 million extra smartphones sold last quarter 4.4 million were Nokias. However as we've mentioned before sequential figures do tend to be quite variable, due to the fact big individual launches can still have an impact on the relatively small smartphone market (52.4 million devices in Q4).




Notes from the conference call

    * Ovi Store Downloads up to 1 million a day. More than doubled number of Ovi Mail accounts to 5 million. Nokia Messaging deals signed with more than 69 operators. Comes with Music in 12 countries, supported by 25 operators.

    * Shipped almost 10 million touchscreen devices (or put another way more than 10 million non-touchscreen devices - of which 6.1 million are Eseries).

    * Additional Maemo device in H2 2010 (OPK 'product announcements continue to happen - Symbian and Maemo in H2 2010').
       
    * Question about Symbian/Maemo tablet - nothing specific - have been exploring with Booklet 3G, but more activity in this space. [my comment: really this is where Maemo operates - i.e. space between smartphone and laptops].

www.allaboutsymbian.com

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N serija posustaje

Mene je baš iznenadilo to, da se E serija bolje prodaje! 

Pa nije ni čudo da se E serija bolje prodaje, kada je N serija raspad (posle N82 i N95 8GB nisu izbacili ni jedan normalan telefon).

A ovi "Numbered" su skočili ponajviše zbog 5800.

Homerun Battle 3D – Droid vs iPhone



Here’s a video demo on how good an Cross-Platform multiplayer gaming can work. The demo is showing the game Homerun Battle 3D (iPhone Vs. Motorola droid)



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I to smo docekali... Symbian open source... Shvatili su da su propali...

http://www.symbian.org/

Symbian Foundation completes move to open source

Today the Symbian Foundation announced that it has completed the move to open source. The platform, which runs on more than 330 million devices and has been developed over the last 10 years is now freely available to all under the EPL (Eclipse Public License). The process, which was delivered four months ahead of schedule, is the largest transition from proprietary code to open source in software history.

The completion of the open source transition marks a critical milestone for Symbian as it seeks to build the enablers for the future of mobile, based on openness and innovation. Read on to view our video interview with Lee Williams and for further information.

The move to open source started when Nokia bought out the remaining shareholders in Symbian Ltd. and created the Symbian Foundation with the intent to move all Symbian code to open source. The move to open source was expected to take two years; in the intervening time, the code was made available to Foundation members under the Symbian Foundation License (i.e. free, but not open source).

The Symbian Foundation begun operations on Januray 1st 2009, but did not have its inaugural board meeting until February 5th (a year ago tomorrow) and began work in earnest on April 1st 2009. Less than a year later, the transition of the entire operating system to open source is complete.

We spoke to Lee Williams, asking him about the announcement, the challenges involved and the implications for the Symbian and mobile ecosystem:



Implications

The Symbian Foundation estimate they are releasing 40 million lines of source code into open source. This makes it one of the biggest ever contributions to open source. To put this into perspective, Android has around 11 million lines of source code, the Linux kernel has 11.5 million lines of source code and Firefox has around 2 million lines of source code. (As the primary contributor to the Symbian Foundation, this automatically makes Nokia a leading open source company.)

If you printed out all the source code on A4 paper you would have a pile of paper 133 metres tall (almost three times the height of Nelson's Column). If you laid the A4 paper sheets end to end it they would reach 250 miles (400 km).

The statistics may be impressive, but what really matters is what it enables. It means that the Symbian platform has open code to go with its open governance model. This makes it much easier for companies and developers to start using the code, learning from it and contributing to it. It fulfills the promise of the Symbian Foundation that any company or individual can jump in and directly influence the future direction of the platform. It enables companies to take the code and use it for any purpose they can envision; it means we are much more likely to see non-phone devices powered by the Symbian platform.

The move to open source is the keystone in the the Symbian Foundation's belief that a philosophy of openness will allow it to to provide 'the foundation for unminted mobile development' and allow innovation to occur faster than ever before.
 
Where can I get it?

All 108 packages making up the Symbian platform are available from the Symbian Foundation web site (tiny.symbian.org/open). They are made available under the EPL license.

You can also download complete development kits for creating both software (Symbian Developer Kit) and devices (Product Development Kit). These kits are from the Symbian^3 release, which is currently being finalised and will be feature complete later in Q1 2010.


Example source code (from Symbian^3 Homescreen package)

From the press release:

Lee Williams, Executive Director of the Symbian Foundation, said:

    "The development community is now empowered to shape the future of the mobile industry, and rapid innovation on a global scale will be the result. When the Symbian Foundation was created, we set the target of completing the open source release of the platform by mid-2010 and it’s because of the extraordinary commitment and dedication from our staff and our member companies that we’ve reached it well ahead of schedule."

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Opa! Najmasovniji OS za mobilne telefone postaje "open source".

Biće zanimljivo vidjeti, šta će se zbivati u budućnosti a vijest je za svaku pohvalu.

Neograničena mobilnost


Prošlog četvrtka, otprilike u vreme kada nastaju redovi koje čitate, objavljena je vest o konačnom završetku procesa koji je trajao bezmalo dve godine, najvećeg takvog u istoriji softvera i informacionih tehnologija uopšte. Radi se o potpunom prelasku Symbian operativnog sistema na open-source princip razvoja.

To u najkraćem znači da je izvorni programski kod ove platforme sada slobodno dostupan programerima širom sveta, koji će nastaviti da ga dalje razvijaju udruženi u zajednicu pod patronatom neprofitne organizacije Symbian Foundation. Ovu grupu kompanija predvodi finska Nokia, a cilj je razvoj nove verzije popularnog operativnog sistema s unapređenim korisničkim okruženjem i dodatnim naprednim funkcionalnostima, pogotovo u oblasti povezivanja sa socijalnim mrežama i drugim Internet servisima.
Otvorenost programskog koda, pored drugih prednosti, znači i da proizvođači hardvera sada ne moraju da plaćaju ugradnju Symbian platforme u svoje uređaje. To bi, opet, moglo da utiče na dodatnu popularizaciju ovog sistema, ali i na eventualno pojeftinjenje nekih modela telefona. S druge strane, uvid u osnovu sistema programerima će omogućiti da kreiraju mnogo naprednije i kvalitetnije dodatne aplikacije. U poslednje vreme upravo je raspoloživost programa nezavisnih proizvođača za različite namene jedan od kriterijuma za uspeh mobilnih platformi, pa su velike kompanije, vlasnici mobilnih operativnih sistema, jedna po jedna pokrenule svoje centralne servise koji s jedne strane programerima nude opciju objavljivanja njihovih proizvoda, a s druge korisnicima omogućuju brzo i jednostavno preuzimanje softvera direktno s mobilnog aparata. Veliki broj besplatnih programa dodatno podiže upotrebnu vrednost telefona koji odavno ne služe samo za komunikaciju.
Budući da i u kriznim godinama prodaja smartphone aparata raste, ovaj segment tržišta korisničke elektronike postaje sve dinamičniji. Očekuje se da će u doglednoj budućnosti svi mobilni telefoni biti „pametni“, s naprednim opcijama za pristup internetu i poslovnim aplikacijama. Zbog toga imamo pojavu novih platformi koje su sve odreda open-source. Google je tako krajem 2007. godine najavio Android operativni sistem, ali i Open Handset Alliance, konzorcijum od pedesetak proizvođača hardvera i softvera, kao i telekomunikacionih kompanija koje će promovisati novi OS. Android danas pokreće sve više uređaja, i to ne samo telefona. Sličan pristup primenjen je i kod LiMo (Linux Mobile) sistema koji razvija LiMo Foundation, organizacija desetak proizvođača i operatera. Nokia je za svoje vrhunske modele i buduće tablet uređaje razvila Maemo koji je takođe potpuno otvoren. Pored nabrojanih, postoji još nekoliko projekata koji su u začetku ili rade na malom broju uređaja, poput Palm webOS. Na kraju, najnoviji mobilni operativni sistem pod imenom Bada najavio je krajem prošle godine korejski Samsung.
Potpunim prelaskom Symbiana na open-source u velikoj je meri izmenjena slika na tržištu pametnih mobilnih telefona i drugih „gedžeta“. Naime, do sada su „zatvorene“ platforme suvereno vladale tržištem sa preko 90 odsto učešća. Prema istraživanjima rađenim sredinom prošle godine, Symbian zauzima oko 50 procenata, sledi BlackBerry OS sa 20 odsto, zatim iPhone operativni sistem sa 13 odsto i na kraju Windows Mobile sa oko 10 odsto. Prelaskom Symbiana u drugi tabor odnos se menja, što bi moglo da navede i ostale proizvođače da besplatno ponude svoje sisteme i tako dodatno doprinesu popularizaciji smartphone uređaja i mobilnosti bez granica.


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