Nokia confirmed today that it sold 8.2 million Lumia Windows Phone devices in the fourth quarter of 2013. That figure represents a decline of 600,000 from the third quarter in which Nokia sold 8.8 million Lumia handsets.
The fall comes on the cusp of the sale of the majority of Nokia’s hardware assets to Microsoft, meaning that the slip is more Microsoft’s problem than Nokia’s. But it is a weak indicator for the larger Windows Phone platform that was showing signs of gathering momentum.
Last year was an excellent one for Windows Phone. Nokia sold 4.4 million devices in the fourth quarter of 2012, meaning that total volume nearly doubled on a year-over-year basis. And, except for the fourth quarter, Lumia sales expanded like clockwork in the year. Between the second and fourth quarters of the year, for example, Nokia sales expanded from 7.4 million to 8.8 million, a healthy quarterly delta of 1.4 million.
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