Nokia will receives $ 250 million from Microsoft per quarter
Nokia will receives $ 250 million from Microsoft per quarter
Microsoft paid Nokia in the fourth quarter of 2011 250 million dollars (180 million euros) for the use of Windows Phone.
This is evident from the annual figures presented by Nokia Thursday. The official figures for the last quarter of 2011 were announced.
Nokia also must also give money to Microsoft for using the platform in the form of royalties. How much that is unknown.
Microsoft and Nokia in 2011 concluded a partnership in November with the first results were shown. Since that first month, the Lumia Nokia smartphone market with Windows Phone platform.
Billions
The total payment to Microsoft, according to the Finnish company Nokia will reach “billions” of dollars. Each quarter is expected to be paid $ 250 million. How long this continues and that amount may also differ is unknown.
Through cooperation we hope both Nokia and Microsoft share (back) to address the smartphone market. Nokia has not yet succeeded in 2011. The company sold 25 percent fewer smartphones than in 2010. The sale of all mobile phones together fell by 3 percent.
smartphone sales
Throughout 2011 Nokia sold 77.3 million smartphones. The previous year the figure was 103.6 million. In the last quarter, the decrease (-31 percent) even more, from 28.6 million in the last months of 2010 to 19.6 million in the fourth quarter of 2011.
So far, according to Nokia more than 1 million smartphones sold Lumia. This means that the Finnish phone maker Microsoft just under $ 250 per sold unit paid Windows Phone.
Loss
Throughout 2011 Nokia suffered a loss of over one billion euros. In 2010 another 2 billion profit. The last quarter of last year contributed to the loss. In those three months was a loss of 954 million recorded. Nokia