Surprise! Nokia sold 4.4M Lumias last quarter, beating expectations

VentureBeat writes, Nokia released preliminary results for the fourth quarter today and, well, things don’t look quite so bad. Nokia said it shipped a total of 86.3 million phones last quarter. While the vast bulk of these sales (70.3 million) came from its low-end devices, the company also shipped 15.9 million smartphones — including 4.4 million Windows Phone-equipped Lumias. That’s up a bit from the 2.9 million it sold in the third quarter, and in line with the 4 million Lumia devices it shipped in Q2 2012. (Nokia also shipped 9.3 million Asha phones and 2.2 Symbian devices, in case you were wondering.)…

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