I am almost sort of miffed that Nokia declares to launch a pocket-friendly handset soon as I buy my second phone of the brand.
Nokia X, the company’s much rumoured-about phone has been announced at the Mobile World Congress. The devices are targeted at the “affordable smartphone” segment of the market and run the Nokia X OS platform — a forked version of Android that includes the Fastlane user interface found on the Asha devices.
This is a smart move on the part of Nokia as lately with the launch of high-end devices like the Lumia 1020, Lumia 1040 series; the young ‘uns were feeling a bit left out. This move will not only give them a phone to look out for from one of the world’s most trusted brands, but also a pocket-friendly option.
The Nokia X’s hardware itself is aligned with its ‘affordable’ smartphone tag, offering a 1GHz dual-core processor, 4-inch 800 x 480 pixels IPS display and a 3-megapixel fixed focus camera on the rear. There’s also 4GB of on board storage and 512MB RAM.
In addition to providing largely unfettered access to Android apps, there are also a few exclusive apps like Mix Radio and Here Maps pre-installed on the device.
Other than loading apps via Nokia’s app store, users will also be able to download them from third-party app stores.
So when you read this and think, hey Microsoft, why go the Android way? Just remember how they almost connived us into using their cloud services :’)
I am still going to be happy about my Windows 😀