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Nokia has taken advantage of today to publish its financial results for the period from January to March of this year, and, as It has been common, there is good news and not so good news. If in the last quarter of 2012 Nokia returned to the path of profits, in the first months of 2013 it once again fell into slight losses. Of course, the figures for Q4 last year included sales from the company's offices in Espoo. Without these revenues, the Finns again present negative results although they continue with the improvement perceived in previous quarters.

The company has obtained revenues of 5,850 million and losses of 150 million euros Revenues have increased slightly compared to the same quarter last year, but the news comes in the reduction of losses. If we compare them with the 1,340 million euros that the company left in Q1 2012, the change is significant and explains why the figures can be viewed positively despite everything.

By divisions, devices and services, despite losing 42 million euros, shows good signs as regards the family of terminals with Windows Phone. In the last quarter 5, 6 million Lumia It is the record since the Finns bet on the Microsoft system and one million more terminals compared to the last quarter of the past financial year. The outlook is even better with the company forecasting more than 7 million Lumias for the second quarter.But, although the numbers of Lumia continue to grow, the sales of terminals considered in general continue to decrease, going from 82.7 to 61.9 million devices.

Other divisions show signs of improvement, albeit with nuances. The communications division of Siemens Networks goes from losing 1,000 million euros last year to earning 3 million, clearly cleaning up its accounts. On the other hand, the HERE maps division loses 97 million, maintaining figures similar to those of 2012. For its part, the company's available capital has risen from 4,370 million to 4,480 million euros between Q1 last year and the current one.

In view of these numbers it seems that Nokia's strategy may be beginning to bear fruit The company's restructuring process around Windows Phone would be managing to reduce the company's losses. And while device sales numbers continue to decline significantly, the Lumia family, Nokia's main bet, is selling more every quarter.Whether the numbers still add up when the Finns actually start to bear the costs of their Microsoft deal remains to be seen.

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