Dude, my phone that I drew on a napkin and threw away 4 years ago is doing better than BlackBerry at this moment. Not sure what your point is on that - because I have one? Meh, it was free. Send me a 1520 for free, I'll use that. Deal?

Anyway, besides continuing discussion the race for who's in last ad nauseum, Nokia is not doing better in the US. Their growth was everywhere other than the US - but going from 2.1% to 6.0% and higher is "growth"... but it's still way less than what Apple or Google has. In fact, it's (in some areas) less than what BlackBerry has. Congrats, WP is gaining what BlackBerry has lost. But not much more than that.

Race for last indeed.

Nokia stock has potential as long as they keep public what the non-Microsoft owned parts are doing and how they were the parts that kept Nokia afloat. It wasn't the handset division which effectively was only useful to Microsoft.

In fact, I'm still waiting to see who's going to come out with a Windows Phone 8 phone besides Nokia now. Nobody else has anything in a company that's still doing well. HTC, going downhill and the 8X can be found for very cheap unlocked. Samsung has Tizen and Android keeping them busy, so WP8 is probably not even going to be released. LG gave up on WP8. There are no more, so having Nokia being 90% of that platform sales isn't really anything special.

It's like saying that 90% of your **** floats when 10% doesn't. It's still ****.