Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Nokia launches Android phones - NOS

 Nokia boss Stephen Elop presents new Nokia devices at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona »

Nokia boss Stephen Elop presents new Nokia devices at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona ANP

by NOS-tech expert Rachid Finge

Nokia has presented this morning its first devices equipped with Google’s Android operating system. This is remarkable, because Nokia’s telefoontak was bought by Microsoft, the maker of the Windows Phone operating system, a direct competitor to Android.

The three new devices cost about one hundred euros and are intended for the budget market. They have a small storage space and a 3-megapixel camera. One of the handsets, the Nokia X 99 euros, only comes from emerging economies in Eastern Europe, Asia and South America.


Windows Phone

The phones are very much like Nokia’s colorful Lumia devices with Windows. Nokia has also changed the look of Android on their device, so that it appears on Windows Phone. One difference is that standard Android apps like Google Maps and Gmail, have been replaced by alternatives from Nokia and Microsoft.

the new Nokia devices running Android apps, the same ones that can be found, for example, Samsung Galaxy devices. Nokia does say that developers need to make minor adjustments before their Android apps also work on these phones.


Future

The question is how much these future devices. Microsoft has a few weeks officially the new owner of Nokia and just trying to increase market share. His own system Windows Phone It will not help if you bring a company just purchased a product with a competitive system on the market. It is obvious that this is Nokia’s first and last devices with Android are.

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