Nokia stock market tumbled Wednesday after throwing a warning on its profits and reported a software bug in its new flagship model, the 900 Lumia, casting doubt on the ambitions a revival of the Finnish manufacturer of the smartphone market.
Nokia has for some time already distanced in this segment, dominated by Apple and Google.
Nokia has warned that he would show, the first and second quarter, representing an operating loss of approximately 3% of its sales in appliances and services, because of competition fe roce raging on the market when the group is reviewing its in-depth product offering.
Around 24:50 GMT, Nokia shares fell 18.3% to 3.12 euros. The stock has lost over half its value since Nokia discontinued its Symbian platform in February 2011, to equip its new smartphone operating system of Microsoft Windows.
"It's a disaster," said Thomas Langer for West LB.
"It was perhaps the most serious risk associated with Nokia model: the discount up to date models Lumia is not fast enough to offset poor sales Symbian. "
The market share of the Finnish group in the smartphone segment declined from 30% to 12% end 2010 end 2011.
In the morning, Nokia had reported a bug on its new model, the Lumia 900. First marketed in the U.S., this smartphone, which includes the operating system Windows Phone from Microsoft, was to be the spearhead of its winback.
"It's as if their engines had stalled at the start of a race, while all the spotlight is on them," said Carolina Milanesi, an analyst at Gartner.
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Lumia The 900 was launched on April 8 by AT & T. It must then be gradually sold worldwide in the current quarter.
In a statement, Nokia said that the outage that affects, and can sometimes result in "a loss of connectivity" refers only to the operating system and that it is linked or the handset or network.
A solution should be found by April 16, explains the Nordic group. He agrees to grant to anyone who bought a 900 Lumia, or which would be by 21 April, a rebate of $ 100 on his phone bill AT & T. This amounts to a full rebate on the price of the unit, sold at 99.99 dollars with a two-year contract.
The announcement of the bug is bad fallen for Nokia, which unveiled its model Wednesday Lumia 610 NFC, the first to include, in addition to the operating system Windows Phone, the NFC (Near Field Communication) in the heart of contactless payments.
NFC technology can transmit data wirelessly to a few centimeters, and so, using his mobile phone to pay for purchases, or save an e-ticket exchange photos and business cards.
This new model, certified for contactless payments using MasterCard and Visa technologies, will be marketed by Orange early in the third quarter, Nokia said.