Nokia's first quarter phone sales slumped 30%

Nokia might have just sold its phone business to Microsoft, but it’s not giving it away in a great shape. In the first quarter of 2014, Nokia phone sales slumped by 30% on the year, a decline due to a slowdown in sales of both Nokia feature phones and smartphones.



Nokia does not give any hard numbers for Lumia Windows Phone sales this time, but it says very clearly that the reason for the decline in Lumia sales lies in the “strong momentum of competing smartphone platforms” (Android and iOS, obviously). Put simply, Nokia admits that it is the Windows Phone platform’s lack of momentum that ...