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Tech: Nokia announces Android phones for emerging markets
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Nokia announces Android phones for emerging markets
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Nokia X and X+ have just been announced by the Finnish handset maker at their Mobile World Congress 2014 press conference. The devices are the first Nokia handsets to run Android, although it is a forked version of the operating system. Nokia X and X+ is aimed at emerging markets and is partly powered by Nokia and Microsoft services. Think of these as an extension of Asha and not so much a threat to Window Phone. Details below.
The X will be released for just 89 Euros in Eastern Europe, Asia, South America, and elsewhere globally, it won’t be making its way to North America, Japan, Korea, or Western European countries. These aren't competitors to Samsung’s Galaxy S4 or Apple’s iPhone 5S, and there are certainly no surprising hardware additions like a 41-megapixel camera or a giant 6-inch display. Instead, the standout feature of the Nokia X lineup is the software that powers it: Android.
Nokia X ships with just a 3-megapixel fixed focus camera, and there’s only one single capacitive button for navigation. You hit the button once to go back and hold it down to return to the home screen. Software customizations on the home screen and across the OS are where the X gets interesting, or, perhaps, confusing. Nokia has created a Windows Phone-like tiled home screen that looks like a blatant rip of Microsoft’s own UI. All installed apps will be displayed here instead of a separate app drawer, and you can even alter the tile sizes to be medium or large. They’re not as live as Windows Phone’s versions or Android widgets, but apps like the calendar will display the date as you’d expect. You can also display widgets from installed apps on the home screen.
Swiping across reveals the Fastlane feature, an option that makes its way over from Nokia’s line of Asha handsets. Fastlane is a mixture of notifications and recent activity combined into a stream. Favorite contacts, recent pictures, and any app notifications will all be listed in a single UI, with options to pull down and peer into future calendar appointments.
The Nokia X and X+ will be available immediately. Nokia X will cost 89 euros, while the Nokia X+ will cost 99 euros.
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http://www.wpcentral.com/nokia-x-and...medium=twitter
http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/24/54...phone-hands-on
Any sass will be swiftly rih-ported.
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Not Nokia shading Android like that
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Originally posted by jomarr
Not Nokia shading Android like that
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They took Google their operating system, STRIPPEDT any bit of Google out of it, and replaced it with their own equivalents.
What kind of bad bitches?
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Wait, I'm confused. So they're making Android phones but jacking Windows Phones OS design? 
Damn Nokia, you shady hoe.
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So when Samsung makes a windows phone-ish UI that doesn't even looks like it, y'all drag them, but when Nokia literally copy/paste the UI (they don't own it by the way), it's all fine and ok ?
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Originally posted by Save-Me-Oprah
They took Google their operating system, STRIPPEDT any bit of Google out of it, and replaced it with their own equivalents.
What kind of bad bitches?
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Amazon and Samsung (on a lesser extent) did it before, been there done that.
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Originally posted by H-I-M
So when Samsung makes a windows phone-ish UI that doesn't even looks like it, y'all drag them, but when Nokia literally copy/paste the UI (they don't own it by the way), it's all fine and ok ?
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There's no such thing as reverse phoneism
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Originally posted by H-I-M
So when Samsung makes a windows phone-ish UI that doesn't even looks like it, y'all drag them, but when Nokia literally copy/paste the UI (they don't own it by the way), it's all fine and ok ?
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Did you miss the part of the article that points out that this runs Microsoft services?
How can Microsoft rip off itself?
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Originally posted by Save-Me-Oprah
Did you miss the part of the article that points out that this runs Microsoft services?
How can Microsoft rip off itself?
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Nokia has created a Windows Phone-like tiled home screen that looks like a blatant rip of Microsoft’s own UI.
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Ask the people that wrote the article, not me.
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Originally posted by H-I-M
Ask the people that wrote the article, not me.
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The phone will be powered by a suite of Microsoft and HERE apps.
On board you’ll find OneDrive, Skype, Outlook.com, HERE Maps, Nokia Mix Radio and more. Apps can be sideloaded through a storage card. The phones will be available in over 60 markets on 160 different operators. The Nokia X and X+ are meant to drive users to Microsoft’s services.
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How the mighty have fallen. 
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How the mighty have fallen. |
The mighty fell but are climbing back up.
A true Lady Gaga type story.
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Originally posted by Save-Me-Oprah
The mighty fell but are climbing back up.
A true Lady Gaga type story.
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Gaga would never sell her soul like that for sales, music not the bling after all.
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Love it! And selena betta get that promo!
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Originally posted by H-I-M
Gaga would never sell her soul like that for sales, music not the bling after all.
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Originally posted by OhRly?
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You didn't get the sarcasm I guess.
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You didn't get the sarcasm I guess.
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I guess you didn't get a LOT of things either.
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This is getting messy.
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