Nokia Lumia 800 tops the PhoneHouse sales in France (largest independent mobilephone retailer in Europe)
Here’s a refreshing set of words strung together. Nokia Lumia 800 is selling well!
Something that has plagued Windows Phone is that it wasn’t attracting the sales. It was the unknown against the familiar greenbots and iThings. Sales folk didn’t know what it was so certainly consumers won’t be informed any better. It did lack apps, as was in first iteration still needing to mature (as well as wider spread app store, language support and improved hardware).
A worry was – what on earth could Nokia bring? Could they really sell Nokia with Windows Phones?
According to windows-phone7.fr, Nokia can bring it. They can sell Nokia Windows Phones. Nokia Lumia 800 has topped the chart of Phone House (Equivalent of CarPhoneWarehouse in the UK). As we always introduce it, that is the LARGEST independent mobile phone retailer in Europe with 1700 stores.
More amazingly, this is BEFORE the huge marketing push. Before the new sales team that are taught what to showcase, before the Lumia 800 ads and promos. What more when that arrives?
Source: windows-phone7.fr via wpcentral
Cheers Hypnopottamus for the tip!
Category: Nokia, Windows Phone
About the Author (Author Profile)
Hey, thanks for reading my post. My name is Jay and I'm a medical student at the University of Manchester. When I can, I blog here at mynokiablog.com and tweet now and again @jaymontano. We also have a twitter and facebook accounts @mynokiablog and facebook.com/MyNokiaBlog. Contact us at tips(@)mynokiablog.com or email me directly on jay[at]mynokiablog.comSubscribe
If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to receive more just like it.
Comments (37)
Trackback URL | Comments RSS Feed
Sites That Link to this Post
- Nokia n97 | Telefon-Telefony | November 4, 2011
- Aspettando Nokia "Sea Ray"... - Pagina 2 | November 7, 2011
- Quora | November 10, 2011
- Windows Phones: A huge success in new beginnings. | Ramblings of an XNA addict | December 4, 2011
whoaaa…it seems nokia is going great..
And how much is no1 there in numbers? Any ideas?
it’s only pre-orders. Lumia 800 is not yet available here. It will be on 16 november. Nexus Prime will be sold the 17th and galaxy Note 25th…
That’s great news. Keep the momentum up Nokia, I’m rooting for you guys.
wow! it was amazing!nokia hopefull more successfull future
Good going !!
Yeah normal because it’s the only store which sell the lumia !
I living in France, Paris. Actually I can see ads for HTC titan. there are some Phonehouse’s boutique which have some ads for Nokia 800 but that’s all.
And idiots and followers got the nerve to say that Nokia should’ve went with android hahahah where are those idiots now?
They’ll still hang around as long as Android is the leader in marketshare.
Unfortunately there’s not much room to troll here. It might get worse for them IF it actually sells well. But that will obviously still be a negative thing. In some way, in some form, everything about the Nokia WP is bad. I hope all Nokias do awesome.
Yes, Make money through WP and put it into Symbian/MeeGo.
joke
Actually that’s not a big of a joke as you think. What Nokia produce through NWP will all be fed back into Nokia developments, to Nokia WP future but also to Nokia future disruptions – the swipe team etc.
Not sure Nokia is able to pull out a decent profit from the LUMIA…just do the math… more than significantly cheaper (point of sale price) than the very similar N9, has to pay royalties to MICROSOFT is not made by NOKIA (nokia factories do not make it COMPAL does with a profit)… On top of that put all the money they plan to spend on marketing.
I’m afraid that even if it sells very well it might be another financial disaster for NOKIA and that is very sad
.
Maybe the N9 will sell ok and can compensate for all of this…
The way Nokia is doing all of it, they are showing they really OWN the WindowsPhone. No one else including Microsoft presents WindowsPhone the way Nokia is doing. So for doing all of it and for letting go of their owns I think there should be much more in the return to Nokia. Afterall, the hardware is pure Nokia and with such marketing and not to forget with such piece of slick hardware look, the business is a SURE so money is to come.
What Nokia will earn with it is not only the money, whatever their cut will be, but most importantly the lost name of Nokia will surface again much more strongly into consumer market. Which means the dust will settle down for Belle (+) devices soon.
Consumer will see Nokia’s device and they might look more of Nokia’s range. So yes make money and put it back into Nokia.
No the hardware is not “Pure NOKIA” far from it its made By compal (http://www.compal.com/) and apparently its a Compal board design, that might be the fundamental explanations for the problems in LUMIA.
off topic:
Does anyone think the new Nokia Suit looks fugly?
Posted this elsewhere already, but..
This is just one week’s ratings.
Lumia 800 is compared to old models – it’s new, no wonder it sells.
Evidently this is only from one store chain (even though the largest, biggest, greatest w/e).
The N9 is not available in France, and this is the N9-clone hardware-wise.. looks sell I guess.
No numbers?
I’m sorry, but I’m a bit skeptical that WP would all of a sudden top all the charts in this way. This is why numbers of actual sales are the only valid criterion for making such a statement – where are they?
We haven’t got any numbers but I don’t think that takes away from the achievement of getting a just announced but unavailable phone at the top of a sales list, one that is supposedly hated and will not get anywhere.
The funny thing is, if this were the N9, there would be no questions on the numbers (e.g. the sold out numbers in Finland for N9). It would be taken as a positive. Since it’s WP, it has to be put down. I like the fairness.
C’mon be honest Jay, wen the news about the N9 64gb preorders in Finland being maxed out all the WP fans were saying that it was just a couple.
Dough I will take that as a half good news, even if I don’t see how Nokia can make a profit out of that phone..
I think it should not be problem to everyone here if Nokia WP sell very well. If you don’t like it, just don’t buy.
For me, i don’t like the WP interface at the moment, so i bought N9 64GB.
However, i also wait and see whether MS can improve the WP and to convince me to buy it.
If Nokia WP can sell well, than all blasting toward WP is pointless !
..The first thing that I asked (and others too) were solid numbers.
Assuming the company doesn’t lie (those things were known to happen!), it would be an achievement – within the limits that I have posted above.
But I’m more likely to believe the success of a phone unsupported by its parent company and loved by the public, than one that is at best ignored and supported by handouts.
The last part of the post I meant regarding WP as a platform, not the 800 specifically.
wow, i might actually order the Lumia 800 from France, because if you preorder it, you receive a Monster Headset for free !!!,
Glad I went with the N9 over the 800, for now.
According to a Nokia official during Telecom Xperience in the Netherlands pre order sales of the Lumia at the Phonehouse stores are below par, number in the tens.
http://www.mobilecowboys.nl/nieuws/15446
Not that I expect that Jay will make a seperate post of this news, every not so positive news about the Lumia is no news at all.
Why are you people posting here? You’re making it sound like Jay is part of this great conspiracy to make WP better than it is. You apparently haven’t read any of the NUMEROUS articles by this blog stating WP’s shortcomings. How many times does it need to be stated that this blog is a NOKIA blog. Anything/everything Nokia will be discussed.
I’ve become tired of the comment section at MNB. It’s become a pissing contest between WP fanboys and N9/Symbian fanboys. People just come on here to shoot down anything that is positive about the “opposing” OS. The discussions being had are no more than bickering fanboys trying to prove that their OS is better. One can hardly go through a discussion section without all the troll commentary.
Attack the argument, not the person
Try reading what I posted. I didn’t even attack him. I attacked his assertion that Jay isn’t fair and doesn’t post any negative aspects of WP.
Yeah I agree and I also agree that Jay is doing a superb job.
On the other end, lets not all pretend all is great and dandy and that the OS in use does present more than a few shortcomings, for nokia to be able to do a real flagship phone.
yahaijou November 15, 2011 What you can not see with your eyes, Do not invent with your mouth!