Nokia has just released its quarterly data. They've achieved 40% market share in a total market that shipped 1.14 B phones last year. Nokia also said it sold 11 M phones of the N-series in the last quarter and 2 M of the E-series in the quarter.

The financial performance (of the handset units) is quite impressive as well. As handset shipments grew, and revenues grew, so did profits. Nokia handset business reported 23.4% profits, compared to 11%-14% of SonyEricsson and Samsung.


Meanwhile Motorola slipped to third place (yeah, did it last quarter already) but also Motorola while losing market share, its handset unit slipped into losses the last quarter of 2007.

If what Nokia claims is true, then consumers can look forward to DVD-like video capture, and later view it on a standard television thanks to the TV-out option. The bundled Adobe Premiere Elements 2.0 software will further assist in burning your high-quality home videos onto DVDs. This is virtually a camcorder with a phone attached. Videos can be captured in MPEG4 format at 30 fps.

The winners will be the ones who understand the consumer early, understand usability, pick the right technology, and place great products at the core of their strategy."

After 2004 with a percentage under 30%, Nokia could reverse the trend in 2005. (Source: Gartner)

This (in case you missed it) is the year of music -- the cell phone as a sort of iPod, capable of downloading, saving and playing thousands of songs. 2006 will be the year of television on your mobile telephone. 2007 will be the year for games on the phone and the capability to play them against other phone users. 2008 will be the year of "my connected life," when the years-old dream of cell phones that are Internet terminals will finally become a widespread reality.

Well, that's what Thomas Jonsson, director of communications for Nokia Networks, said in a recent interview in Nokia's glass, wood and steel headquarters building here.

Nokia Corp. (NOK) plans to have phones that can switch between mobile and fixed networks available for consumers next year, as telecoms operators increasingly try to woo customers with converged services. The world's largest handset maker will start selling a dual-network phone targeted at corporate users this year, and one for consumers is due in the first half of 2006, Olli-Pekka Lintula, director of strategic marketing at the technology platforms division, told Dow Jones Newswires.

"All future phones for enterprises from Nokia will also be wi-fi equipped," Lintula said.

[...] By 2009 Nokia forecasts that there will be just over 100 million wi-fi enabled phones globally, up from a few million this year.

By adapting WebCore and JavaScriptCore components for its smartphone platform, Nokia and other Series 60 licensees will be able provide a rich Web browsing experience that takes full advantage of today's fast wireless networks and advanced mobile devices.. According to the "Smartphone360" study - Nokia-conducted consumer research among Series 60 smartphone users - over 50 percent of data traffic was generated by browsing.
"Nokia is excited to enrich Series 60 with optimized mobile Web browsing. Open source software is an ideal basis for development since it enables Nokia to leverage and contribute to speedy software innovation and development. As a result, the entire Series 60 value chain, from manufacturers and operators to end-users, will benefit from the flexible architecture, full Web compliance and a truly enjoyable user experience," said Pertti Korhonen, Chief Technology Officer, Nokia.