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| Nokia unveils X-series Android Supported Smartphone at #MWC'14 (Image by gsmarena) |
Finally You can Android on Nokia Devices.Nokia realised that Android the highest growing Operating System and they unleashed new X series smartphone that runs on Android Operating system.Now the power of Android doubled by trust of Nokia.Lots of Nokia Users wants Android on their smartphone.But when the deal of Microsoft did with Nokia.All the hopes were ended. Now Nokia finally gives smile on their customer's faces by launching X series.Today they launches low-cost X series Android phones- Nokia X, Nokia X+ and Nokia XL at the ongoing Mobile World Congress 2014 in Barcelona.
Though the dream comes true but reality is totally different.Nokia X operates on Hybrid operating systems.They given Android Open Source Project(AOSP) name to Hybrid Operating System.Such Hybrid operating system inherits the property of Android Open Source Project as well as Nokia's own operating system.Nokia and microsoft works together to build this hybrid operating system for X series that supports running of standard Android applications.Some of Google Services we found in typical Android devices such as Google Maps, Google Talk are replaced with Microsoft & Nokia's services.for ex. Google map is replaced by Nokia Maps.Google Talk replaced by Skype.Contact management is done via Outlook.Ultimately you feels mixure of Nokia, Microsoft and Android in X series.
"More and more people are buying smartphones for less that 100 euros," said Stephen Elop, Nokia executive vice president, as he presented the new phones at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. "That sub-100 range is a massive opportunity for us. According to analysts, it will grow four times as fast as rest of smartphone market."
The Nokia X features a 4-inch WVGA display and is powered by a 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon dual core processor. It is paired with 512 MB RAM and will have 4GB internal storage with microSD support, 3MP camera and 1500 mAh battery.
The Nokia X+ is identical to Nokia X with a few changes. It will feature a 768 MB RAM, a 4GB internal storage and a 4GB memory card.
The Nokia XL has a 5-inch display with 800x480 pixel resolution, a 5MP camera, 1GHz dual core processor, 768 MB RAM and 4GB of internal storage with support for expandable memory card slot.
For Applications Installation, Nokia X-series not packed with Google play Store instead Nokia updated its Nokia Store, that has updated with all new android applications as well as some third party applications too.Android Developers needs to change little bit of their Android code to make support for X-series as Nokia won't allow advertisements in applications.Nokia says it won’t require more than two hours of work to make any Android app Nokia-X compliant.
X-series smartphone won't be available in the US, Canada, Korea and Japan in part to avoid competing with Lumia phones, which cost hundreds of dollars in the US without subsidies from phone carriers.
Lets see how much struggle Nokia will do to keep in competition of Androids,iPhones.By the way nice venture from Nokia to unveil Android Devices with trust of Nokia.
