Microsoft sold 5.8 million Lumia smartphones and 30.3 million non-Lumia handsets, including Asha and Nokia X devices, during its last_quarter. “Low price point devices drove a majority of the Lumia smartphone volumes,” the company added. The figures for the three-month period (ending on June 30) were disclosed in Microsoft’s Q4 2014 earnings report. The firm announced plans to acquire Nokia’s hardware_business last September, before closing the deal_in April. Last week, Microsoft said it would be cutting up to 18,000 jobs over the next 12 months. The bulk of the layoffs – 12,500 in total – will come from Nokia. The...

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