In what Nokia described as very solid performance, the Lumia duo sold “well over 1 million” units, which is less than the 2 million targets, but better than the half million predictions of some analysts. You should keep in mind, though, that this number includes Lumia sales until today and not just in Q4.

A million sales is hardly enough to justify everything that the company went through after it announced its major change of strategy in February, but it’s still a start and hopefully things will only get better from now on.

Also, Nokia finally started receiving the subsidy that was put in its contract with Microsoft when it started making WP smartphones. The company got USD250 million this quarter and will be looking for much more in the future, if reports of a deal worth north of USD2 billion are to be believed.

Still, according to the IFRS numbers (IFRS is the international standard for such reports), Nokia lost EUR954 million (about USD1,260 million) this quarter alone or a total of EUR1,073 million (USD1,413 million) for the whole 2011.

The company experienced year-on-year decreases in almost every one of its businesses, including the total number of phones sold. Average selling price also went down, so we can hardly attribute to the transition to smartphones alone.

Things are looking a little brighter if you compare them to Q3 of 2010, but the holiday season is bound to lead to some increase in sales.

So, Nokia obviously got their start in the WP game, but the verdict is quite clear – they need to step up their game. Of course, it would be nice if Microsoft did its part, too and brought the platform up to speed (multi-core support, FullHD video and higher display resolutions immediately spring to mind).

If you can’t get enough of those numbers, you might want to follow the source link for the complete Nokia Q4 and full 2011 report.

If battery life is what you’re after, the RAZR MAXX is a champ – how do 21 hours of talk time sound? For reference, the standard RAZR for Verizon packs a 1780 mAh battery for twelve and a half hours of talk time.

The RAZR MAXX is thicker and heavier than the standard RAZR (9mm, 145g vs. 7.1mm 127g), but other than that it has the same appealing features – 4.3″ SuperAMOLED screen with qHD resolution, 1.2GHz dual-core processor and 8MP camera with 1080p video recording. And it has Gorilla glass on front and Kevlar on the back too.

Verizon is offering it for USD299 on a two-year contract or USD649 without a contract. You can grab it only from Verizon’s website right now. For comparison, the vanilla XT912 RAZR goes for USD279/USD649 respectively for the 32GB version (which is how much you’re getting from the MAXX). The 16GB version is USD199/USD599.

In fact, smartphones are enjoying an explosive growth on AT&T’s network. Compared to last year’s Q4, sales of smartphones were up almost 60%, beating their previous record by a whopping 50%. Compared to Q3, the final quarter of 2011 saw twice as many smartphone sales.

In specific numbers, that’s 9.4 million smartphones sold in Q4 of 2011, 7.6 million of which were Apple-made. AT&T is saying that the majority of them were the new iPhone 4S model. Android were also pretty hot, with sales doubling compared to the same quarter last year.

By the end of 2011, over half (56.8%) of AT&T’s post paid subscribers had smartphones, which isn’t surprising since 82% of post paid subscribers that got a new phone in Q4 went for a smartphone. It’s also interesting that AT&T’s revenues per subscriber with a smartphone are nearly double those per feature phone subscriber.

AT&T also managed to sell 311,000 tablets during the fourth quarter of 2011, though they didn’t give a platform breakdown for those.

Anyway, as far as money goes, AT&T’s consolidated revenues for Q4 2011 were USD32.5 billion, a modest 3.6% increase year-over-year. Despite all the positive numbers, the communications giant posted an operating loss of USD9 billion, compared to a USD2.1 billion operating income for Q4 2010.

For the final quarter of 2011 AT&T posted a net loss of USD6.7 billion. A big part of that loss is attributed to the failed T-Mobile deal, which resulted in AT&T paying T-Mobile USA USD4 billion (as stipulated by their merger contract).

For the full year 2011, AT&T had a revenue of USD126.7 billion and net income of USD3.9 billion, compared to a revenue of USD124.3 billion and net income of USD19.9 billion for the full year 2010.

You can read AT&T’s press release if you need more details on their performance.

Phones4U will be the lucky store to offer the device in the UK starting tomorrow with others (including Play and Clove) to follow in the days after.

So if you feel like becoming one of the first LG Prada 3.0 owners you can get it for free as early as tomorrow with a two-year contract costing GBP31/month. If contracts are not your thing, unlocked Prada Phone 3.0 units will be available in the beginning of February.

Not sure if the LG Prada 3.0 is worth your hard-earned cash? Check out our hands-on of the device with live shots and its UI walkthroug to make up your mind.

The Samsung Wave Y S5380 LaFleur surfaced on a Ukrainian online store’s website and it costs just USD165. Judging by the specs on the handset’s listing page, there are no functional differences between the LaFleur and the original version.

Still, the nicely decorated purple back and the accents on the front will probably be enough to win the Wave Y LaFleur plenty of fans among the ladies, and with Valentine’s day just around the corner that might work out quite well for Samsung.

Unfortunately, there’s no official information about the Samsung Wave Y LaFleur availability outside Ukraine, so we are not sure if you’d be able to get it at your local store. We’ll be keeping an eye on it though and will make sure to keep you up to date if more info pops up.

Our main goal was to create a website that’s easy to navigate through a mobile browser, while keeping as many of the features of the main site as possible. So no matter if you are browsing the site through your smartphone or your desktop computer – you will have access to the same content.

While many popular websites chose to create mobile apps, we felt that a mobile version, which supports all popular platforms would be the right way to go. That way it would be easier for us to implement new features and there won’t be arguments over who got what version first. Plus, we thought it would be better if we focus our future efforts on bringing you high-quality content, instead of keeping several mobile apps up to date.

Let’s start with the homepage, which gives you quick access the latest news, reviews and phone specification pages. We kept things compact by introducing easy to use content sliders, which can be operated by swipes or by pressing the previous or next buttons.

Also on the homepage, you will find two of your favorite features from the full desktop site – autocomplete search and user login.

The Autocomplete phone search works like you’d expect. You start typing a part of the phones name and it suggests the most popular devices containing the letters you type. You can then proceed to tap on the device you are actually looking for and check out its specifications.

We tried to keep the news and reviews articles clean and easy to read without unnecessary distractions. You can view full-sized sample and phone images hassle-free. Oh, and you can post your comments with the new mobile-friendly comments section.

One of our most popular feature – the phone specification database has naturally been carried to the mobile version as well. We’ve also included the user rankings and the interest ratings of each handset.

To make sure that you don’t miss something we’ve prepared a quick walk-through video of the GSMArena.com mobile version.

Like it? Well, go ahead and try it yourself then! To access the mobile version of our site you can use the big red button at the bottom of the page, when you open GSMArena.com through a mobile browser. Alternatively, you can type and bookmark this address m.gsmarena.com.

Once we see everything is working smoothly, we will forward you to the correct version for your browser automatically (you will always have an option to override that, of course).

As always, we are open to suggestions and if you happen to experience any bugs, tell us in the comments section, mentioning your phone and browser.

Unfortunately, Opera Mini, S40 and S60 users won’t get to enjoy the complete functionality of the site due to the limited feature support of those browsers, but they should still have access to almost all of the content inside.

Updatе, Jan 27:Thanks for the great feedback. We saw many of you requesting a link to our blog on our mobile site. We are hard at work on a mobile version of the blog and as soon as we’re finished, it will be integrated on the main mobile homepage as it is now on the desktop version.

Let’s start with the financial side of things first. Motorola Mobility reported net revenues of USD3.4 billion in the fourth quarter of 2011 and a net loss of USD80 million (compared to a net earnings of USD80 for the previous year’s Q4). The mobile phone department accounts for USD2.5 billion of the revenues (up 5% year on year) and an operating loss of USD70 million.

For the full 2011, Moto had revenues of USD13.1 billion (up 14% compared to 2010) and a net loss of USD249 million (in 2010, the net loss was USD86 million). The mobile department is responsible for an operating loss of USD285 million (compared to an operating loss of USD76 million in 2010).

Motorola shipped 10.5 million phones during the three months period, 5.3 million of which were smartphones. There were also 200,000 tablets shipped during the quarter. Over the whole year, the numbers are 42.4 million phones in total, of which 18.7 million were smartphones, plus 1 million tablets. That’s an improvement over 2010, when they shipped 37.3 million phones.

As for the Home segment of Motorola mobility, their net revenues for the full year were down to USD3.5 billion in 2011 (in 2010 they were USD3.6 billion) but it brought in operating earnings of USD226 million (vs. operating earnings of USD152 million in 2010).

The merger proceedings are going forward, Motorola and Google have already received clearances from Russia and Turkey. The two companies are still waiting for the okay from the US, Canada, China and the European commission.

Hit the source link if you need a more detailed breakdown on Motorola Mobility’s financial performance.

The CX2 is supposed to feature a better processor, superior display, slimmer shell and even better connectivity options (incl. NFC).

Today a reportedly trustful source disclosed to GSM Israel the market name for the CX2 – it’s going to be the LG 3D MAX or rather Optimus 3D MAX.

LG 3D MAX

In case you’ve missed a detail, the 3D MAX should run on a 1.2GHz dual-core processor (TI OMAP chipset) and use a 4.3″ WVGA NOVA 3D display capable of better 2D-to-3D conversion. The two cameras will remain 5 megapixels, but it’s yet to see if they will be capable of 1080p 3D videos. The 3D smartphone will most probably run on Android Gingerbread with much more 3D stuff than its predecessor.

Anyway, the MWC is coming in a few weeks, so the announcement should be around the corner. You can bet we will be there to cover everything for you.

The chipset packs two Cortex-A15 cores running at 2.0GHz, which reportedly have double the performance of their Cortext-A9 predecessors. We can’t wait to see how Exynos 5250 stacks up against quad-core chipsets coming this year.

Details on the GPU are pretty scarce, all Samsung said when they announced the chipset was that it will quadruple the graphics performance of their current models (they are presumably talking about the successor of the Mali-400 GPU).

Samsung said that the Exynos 5250 will be used to power tablets first and eventually smartphones. They didn’t give an exact timeframe for the smartphones, but if there’s any truth in the rumors of the Galaxy S III being delayed, maybe we’ll see the chipset debut on the third generation flagship droid from Samsung.

Dirt and chocolate stains on the cover are said to come off easily after the UV coating is exposed to sunlight for several seconds, and the battery charge times are expected to be reduced by half when compared to previous Xperia models. A ten minute charge should provide an hours worth of standby.

We first got a look at the Xperia S a few weeks ago at CES, and were really impressed with its BRAVIA-powered display image quality.

Expect the Sony Xperia S this March for around EUR462.