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Nokia Announces Nokia X Android Smartphone

Posted by samzenpus on from the check-it-out dept.

squiggleslash writes "Despite some industry skepticism, Nokia has indeed been working on an Android smartphone and finally unveiled the Nokia X today. As rumored, it's not a Google Play compatible device, running instead a Google-less AOSP build with a Nokia app store, and Windows Phone style shell. The budget phone will also not be marketed in North America. The Media seems convinced Microsoft — who are in the process of acquiring Nokia — will kill the project, but it's hard to see why Nokia would be working on such a project at this time if Microsoft had plans to do this."

3 of 105 comments (clear)

  1. i have to ask by beefoot · · Score: 3, Funny

    Since Nokia makes wonderful handset, could existing nokia handsets running windows be modded to run android?

  2. I wouldn't have believed it - even uglier than WP by daboochmeister · · Score: 3, Funny

    If someone had suggested they could release an interface even more playskool, offputting and uglier than WP's tiles, I would have told them they were simply crazy. Alas, I was wrong.

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    "Ahh! I see you're in that indeterminate Schrodinger state where - oh, uh ... never mind." Dave Bucci
  3. Re:I wouldn't have believed it - even uglier than by tepples · · Score: 4, Funny

    A phone UI can't get more Fisher-Price than this one.