Nokia reports quarterly loss that includes cash infusion from Microsoft Nokia has released it's fourth quarter financial report for 2011. While the good news is that the company is reporting the shipment of over 1 million Windows Phones, the bad news is that Nokia has experienced the third straight quarterly loss. Nokia's revenue dropped 21% from last year and profit dropped from €884 million (about $1.1 billion U.S) to €954 (about $1.25 billion U.S.). While Nokia is pleased as punch about shipping over a million Windows Phones, overall smartphone revenue dropped 38% and overall smartphone shipments dropped 8%. On the positive, Nokia reported an infusion of €180 million ($250 million U.S.) from Microsoft in the form of platform support payments. The strategic agreement with Microsoft covers both platform support from Microsoft and minimum software royalty payments from Nokia to Microsoft. The life of this strategic agreement is expected to measure in billions of US Dollars. Overall, Nokia's CEO Stephen Elop was please with the performance of their mobile phones business citing the release of the Windows Phone Lumia series (Lumia 710 and 800), introducing the series to consumers in Europe, Hong Kong, India, Russia, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. With the third straight quarterly loss, Nokia's hopes are likely riding on the company's re-entry into the North American Market (with the T-Mobile Lumia 710 and AT&T Lumia 900) and the success of the Windows Phone line world wide. Additional expansion will see the Lumia Windows Phones to China and Latin American markets during the first half of 2012. Hopefully, the global distribution will stop the downhill slide and give Nokia a positive first quarter report in 2012

Nokia ha conseguido vender ya un millon de sus Lumia en los ultimos 2 meses del año, lo que no ha servido para compensar un descenso generalizado en los modelos con Symbian.

Sin embargo, el dato mas interesante ha sido conocer que Microsoft le ha inyectado capital que asciende a 250$ mllones, fruto de su acuerdo hace ahora un año. Se asegura que durante los proximos meses se seguiran realizando pagos de esta indole para potenciar las ventas de los Lumia.

Todos sospechabamos que Microsoft estaba detras de la gigantesca campaña de marketing con la que la finlandesa ha asaltado los mercados en los que se han lanzado sus modelos con Windows Phone 7. Ahora tenemos la confirmacion por parte de la propa compañia, al tiempo que anuncian que solo ha sido el primer paso de varios en esta direccion.

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Creo que desde un principio se rumoró que Microsoft había "apoyado" a Nokia para salir del bache, espero que los frutos sevean en forma de una mayor penetración de mercado tanto de Nokia como del S.O.