Black Friday was a good day for many retail stores and companies alike, including Nokia which sold out of its Lumia 920 completely last Friday.
"[The Lumia] 920 Windows 8 Phone on AT&T was completely sold out by mid-day," Trip Chowdhry, the Managing Director of Equity Research at Global Equities Research wrote in a note to investors and reporters. He also stated that he was unable to get a converged view on the number of units each store received according to NASDAQ.com.
The company is currently the second largest cell-phone manufacturer in the world but sits seventh worldwide in overall sales numbers. The overall success the phone achieved on Black Friday wasn't expected but could be attributed to a number of things like the specs customers can expect to receive and other phones being sold out before Black Friday.
Using the Nokia phone, users have a top speed of 4G LTW, an advanced 1.5 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and Internet Explorer. With full SkyDrive integration and backup, features like your photos, music, and videos can sync to other devices.
The 2000 mAh battery and power-efficient LCD display with brightness mode establishes the phone as one of the "most efficient phones" ever produced according to Nokia. The company also seems satisfied with the camera option the phone provides. The 920 comes equipped with an 8.7 megapixel LED flash PureView camera that includes wide-angle optics.
The phone has consistently been doing well on Amazon Wireless as the phone is currently on a 1 to 2 week backorder due to the high demand. The company is expecting to sell over 20 million phones before releasing a new device, which will most likely include Windows 8 again.
Despite what experts advised, Nokia stood by Microsoft's mobile operating system for the Google Android phone, and right now the unique operating system is probably one of the only reason's the 920 phones have sold at all. Though the operating system is arguably still behind what Apple and Samsung have to offer, it is predicted to one day grow to a worthy competitor.
The phone as a whole may never compete with the devices Apple of Samsung has out currently, but at $99 for a two year contract through AT&T the phone is an affordable option for those who don't want to pay close to $200 for an iPhone or don't like the size of the Samsung S3.
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