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#408
Originally Posted by thedead1440 View Post
IMO, the main reason Nokia want to classify it as a smartphone is so that it boosts the units in the quarterly reports hence they wouldn't need to specify explicitly the success of Lumia series...

Its a way to market the devices as well as a safe fall-back for Elop who can cover up the fallings of Lumia if they don't really sell well...

After all, I think the Asha series gives around 10% margin just like what Elop expects from WP series phones whereas Symbian and N9 gave him 20-30% margins...So with same margin it would be more difficult to get the real Lumia sales figures...
NOKIA do NOT classify the Asha series as smartphones (but they should IMO).

16 M downloads per day http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/...6_million_.php