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First Phone Out of Microsoft-Nokia -- and It's an Android

Posted by timothy on from the glorious-or-inglorious? dept.

An anonymous reader writes BBC reports that the first phone resulting from the Microsoft-Nokia merger has been announced: the Nokia X2. And foiling everybody's ability to guess what OS it would run on, the answer is Android. But this being Microsoft, do expect some embrace-and-extend — the user interface is similar to the Windows phone. And it is being offered as a way to hook users into its cloud-based services, several of which come pre-installed as apps. Is this the first Linux product being offered by Microsoft? Can we upgrade Microsoft's social rating from CCC to CCC+?

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  1. So what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Use the best tool for the job.

    1. Re:So what? by clarkn0va · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I don't think I can fault MS/Nokia for going with the winner, but I might question the user that seeks his Android fix from this company. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

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      I am literally 3000 tokens away from the chaotic crossbow --Stephen