The fourth quarter brought Nokia profits, but the year in the red

Nokia has summed up the results of the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2012. The last three months have been successful for the company and managed to get 439 million euros of profit, while revenue was 8.04 billion euros. However, much of the profit was obtained by growth in revenues from units Nokia Siemens Network, although Devices & Services division also turned in the black, but not so much. Although the fact that a positive outcome of New Year's quarter for the company is positive. For comparison, the previous losses in this sector amounted to about half a billion euros. This led to the fact that the company ended the year with an impressive loss of 2.3 billion euros. In 2011, the final loss was just over 1 billion. At the same time it should be noted that growth in sales of smartphones Lumia series of positive impact on the average cost of a smartphone, which has risen from 155 euros to 186 euros, and if we take only the Lumia, it amounted to 192 euros in the fourth quarter. The company was able to realize just 4.4 million smartphones Lumia, of which the share of the U.S. market fell 700 000. However mass communications accompanying the final report indicates that the company is going through hard times. For the first time in more than 20 years, the company refused to pay dividends for the year. In the next quarter results included 250 millionth payment from Microsoft, which was the last. also officially completed story smartphones running Symbian. After Nokia 808 PureView more models will be.