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Rumour: Android Powered Nokia X To Break Cover At MWC 2014

The Finns will probably replace their Asha platform with forked Android.

 

Sources from the Wall Street Journal have news that the Finns will be releasing their rumoured Nokia X (codenamed Normandy) at the Mobile World Congress 2014. The handset will be Nokia’s first attempt at selling an Android handset.

The handset was in the rumour mill for months and has been leaked several times from a number of sources. What confuses us the most is how similar the back button is to the Asha series running the MeeGo UI. A similarity that led most of us to believe that it was indeed a MeeGo running Asha device.

WSJ sources speculate that the handset will most probably run a custom version of Android sans Google’s Play store integration placing it in the category of the Kindle Fire Tablets. What is more interesting from the screenshots, is the fact that the skin or UI has a striking similarity to the Windows Phone interface.

So we have a Nokia Android phone with a Windows Phone based UI without Play Store integration! Sounds complicated doesn’t it? Well, to keep things simplified, if this turn out to be a completely custom UI, Nokia will have to load its app store with custom apps that complement the new UI. it's supposed to be an affordable phone with dual-core Snapdragon 200 SoC, a 4-inch WVGA display, 4 GB of built-in memory, and paltry 512 MB of RAM. We just hope Nokia gets the recipe right considering that they are bringing in too many new elements into the mix.


TAGS: Mobile Phones, Android, Nokia

 
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