While Nokia is still tight-lipped about the actual shipping figure of its flagship Lumia smartphones, IDC has estimated that the Finnish company has shipped only 2.2 million units in the first quarter of 2012.

IDC, however, has considered only units delivered to retailers and carriers and not units that customers purchased between January and March.

While Apple shipped 35 million iPhones in the same period, Samsung also enjoyed a large market share. In comparison to both the smartphone makers, Nokia's performance was underwhelming. And, if the shipment figure indicated by IDC is correct, "Lumias would represent less than a tenth of the 11.9 million smartphones shipped by Espoo over the season," reports Engadget.

Lumia 900, the latest and most-talked-about Lumia phone runs on the latest Microsoft Windows Phone 7.5 Mango, offers one-touch access to social networking sites along with features like easy grouping of contacts, communication threads and Internet Explorer 9.

The Lumia 900 packs in a 1.4 GHz Scorpion processor, Qualcomm APQ8055 Snapdragon, Adreno 205 GPU with 16GB internal storage and 512MB RAM, 8 megapixel primary camera, 1 megapixel front camera. While a major minus for the phone is its lack of external memory card slot, its USP is its Xbox Live capabilities, cutting edge graphics, ClearBlack display and Windows Phone OS.  

Lumia 900 comes with a price tag of $100 on-contract on AT&T, while retail price of a new Nokia Lumia 610 is about $250.