Nokia Q3 2012: loss of $754 million. Lumia sales have dropped to 2.9 million.

[dallas]

Soleron said:

dallas said:
MSFT will have to moneyhat somebody else now or just drop out of the smartphone market. Who will they moneyhat next??

It's pretty clear they would buy Nokia rather than do that. MS cannot afford to give up on smartphones; they've put Windows on the line for it.

HTC's 8X/8S Windows Phones look good as well. If this round fails, it will be impossible to blame the hardware.

 

The market research analysts have uniformly said that msft will keep about five percent market share for smartphones but get around twenty percent for tablets.