Nokia phones in profit

Nokia's result returned, the black in the third quarter thanks to Smartphone sales, but it also 1,800 layoffs announced.

The Finnish phone manufacturer said today that it took a profit of EUR 529 million (US$ 741 million) home in the third quarter Quartal.Der sales compared with a loss of EUR 559 million in the year ago almost 5 percent increased to EUR 10.3 billion EUR 9.8 billion back in the year before.

Excellent analyst expectations, third-quarter results were by higher selling prices on Nokia smartphones increased. for the quarter turnover of EUR 7.2 billion, an increase of 4 percent from a year ago moved the enterprise devices and services unit.

Operating profit turned positive, beat 423 million euros loss after a 426 million in the quarter of last year.

Selling high-end, or "convergent," mobile devices (smart phones and mobile computers) beat 26.5 million units, 61 percent of before a Jahr.Nokia jump sold a total of 110.4 million mobile devices, 2 percent from last year.

The solid quarter was welcome news Nokia's new CEO, Stephen Elop, who took the reins of Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo last month.

"In the five weeks since joining Nokia, I have a company with many great strengths and a history of performance that are unsurpassed in the industry" Elop said in a statement."And our company is a remarkably disruptive time in the industry, with recent results demonstrate that we our role in and must rethink our approach to this industry."

Nokia early-stage segment still a tough, competitive Klima.Das company announced today that it plans to some of its operations in its Symbian Smartphone move unit to rationalisieren.Die and others will lead to the dismissal of approximately 1,800 employees worldwide.

Looking to the future Nokia expects a fourth quarter sales from its devices and services unit from 8.2 billion to EUR 8.7 billion to reach although his total mobile device market share company down slightly from the last Jahr.Das has its position as the world's leading mobile phone manufacturers kept but has slowly and steadily was dripping market share to competitors such as Apple, HTC and research in Motion.Und although it has a leading company in Europe, Nokia fight for carving out a significant portion of the business development in North America.

Last spring, Nokia began to shake a reorganization and simplify their departments and uptake of new Produkten.Das company your failure acknowledged also effectively North American consumer target and is looking for ways to improve the focus on the US market.