Nokia Lumia sales estimated at over one million

Last year Stephen Elop, Nokia’s battleweary CEO, needed a hit and the Lumia 800’s colourful Windows Phone 7-packing slab of polycarbonate was it from the looks of financial analysts’ sales estimates. A bunch of 22 of them seem to have got together and guessed how many Lumia handsets Nokia’s flogged so far, including the Lumia 710 which hasn’t reached the UK yet. This is how analysts have fun.

But sparing the sordid details, the figure you need to know is a whopping one million handsets with all but one of the moneymen predicting Nokia to announce selling more than this massive total.

So Nokia might finally be joining the big boys in the smartphone race but it’s still got a way to go – Apple’s sold over 200m iPhones, iPods and iPads and there’s over 150m Android phones knocking around. Spiderman limited edition Lumia 900 anyone?

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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