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I don't have any data to back this up, but I think they sold hundreds of millions of high end (and expensive for the time) smartphones running Symbian. Remember

• usr1106 4y ago
  No, I remember attending parties when 1 or 2 millions of a model had been sold. At the same time Nokia sold over 100 million of feature phones a year. Edit: As you write they were expensive. So while Nokia was the undisputd leader in the segment for a couple of years the absolute numbers were not that big. I remember some year the worldwide phone market was 400 million a year. Nokia had over 100 million of them, but smart phones (Symbian) only single digit millions.
  • perryizgr8 4y ago
    One model, N95, sold 10 million units. It was priced at around $500. That's 5 billion revenue from one model alone. I'm sure feature phones sold a lot more, but that's irrelevant.
    • usr1106 4y ago
      Yes, 10 millions for the N95 sound possible to me. But that was after 10 years of development with many 1000 developers. Revenue is not earnings. The orginal claim was that they earned billions.
      • markb139 4y ago
        Just before the iPhone, I think Nokia were shipping about 70 million Symbian phones a 1/4 and had about 50% of the market profit. Then, it didn’t