Doesn't matter. The point is that Vertu is profitable and Elop is selling off profitable Nokia assets to support WP7.

Elop is banking hard on Lumia success in the U.S. but I can bet you that Lumia will flop in the U.S. Microsoft was so ashamed of WP7 sales that it insisted on lumping the old Win Mobile sales together. The actual market share of WP7 in the U.S. is less than 1.5%. This is practically total rejection by consumers.

Nokia won't be able to change anything. Their reputation in the U.S. has been degraded to cheap flip phones that grandmas use. Lumia will also fail in India, China, Russia, Australia and S.E. Asia as they can't be bothered about WP7. Europe is WP7's best market but even then Elop and MS are too ashamed to reveal actual numbers sold.

So the U.S. is Elop's last great hope but this is like a drowning man grabbing at straws. Apollo even if good will not come in time to save Nokia. It will be the 3rd or 4th Q before Nokia can sell Apollo phones and by then it will be in intensive care.

The wisest thing for Nokia to do now is to stand strongly behind MeeGo and sell N9 in all markets. Then maybe, just maybe, Nokia will be able to survive 2012. But the mole Elop will not do this because it doesn't benefit Microsoft.