Nokia to Launch its First Android Phone Later This Month
Nokia has plans to launch
a long-rumoured Android phone later this month at the Mobile World
Congress trade show in Barcelona, reported Wall Street Journal.
Phone is widely reported to
be aimed at low-end segment of the developing markets.
Report said that Nokia X
– code named Normady – will come with a dual-core 1GHz Snapdragon
processor, a 4-inch WVGA screen, 512MB of memory, 4GB of storage, and a microSD
card slot.
It will reportedly sport a
5MP camera, a 1,500mAh battery, along with dual-SIM option.
Speculations say that Nokia
won’t allow the “Play Store” access to this phone, instead Microsoft and Nokia
developed services – such as Here maps and Mix Radio — will be offered along
with Nokia’s own store with popular Android Apps, such as Skype, Facebook,
Twitter, Whatsapp etc..
Nokia X will Finally
change Nokia’s decision for not going Android. Company remained committed
to Windows Phone operating system for its high-end smartphones.
However, we have seen Nokia
testing various other home-grown operating systems for its low-end phones for
developing markets. Android on a low-end phone from Nokia seems in-line with
this long-running policy.
Nokia’s hardware run by
Android phone would be an interesting proposition. This may not only revive the
brand, which was sold to Microsoft last year, but may also help result into
faster adoption of smartphones in developing markets, especially if phone is
priced well
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