Nokia sells 1.5 billion Series 40 handsets

Nieuws Mobiel Wereld 25 JAN 2012
Nokia sells 1.5 billion Series 40 handsets
Nokia has sold its 1.5 billionth Series 40 mobile phone. The device was sold to a female consumer in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo. Nokia said this represents a historic moment as it continues its strategy of connecting the next billion. The 1.5 billionth mobile phone was a Nokia Asha 303, a touch screen handset with Qwerty keypad designed for web browsing, social networking and gaming, which features pre-installed entertainment and applications such as Angry Birds Lite. The first Series 40 phone was the Nokia 7110 developed in 1999. Since then the series has evolved into 'smartphone lite' devices, adding features typical to smartphones to lower-cost handsets.

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