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Android isn't really linux? Please expand.
Nokia announces the X and X+, its first Android phones
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#62I remember when Nokia phones were crushing their opponents in terms of user experience, despite the incredible amount of devices they offered. The one-in-all blue button was remarkable. There were no OS, just different brands.
Nokia failed to make the leap to smartphones though. I still believe they were the only company capable of competing with the iPhone by delivering a hardware/software combo, but sadly failed to do so.
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#63Re: Nokia announces the X and X+, its first Android phones
#64How is that even possible, I thought Android is closed source. At least that's what Ars Technica has been telling us for the last months.
Yap, and PvZ2 can't be ported to AOSP because it uses GMS API's
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Nokia/Microsoft deal hasn't completely gone through yet. Until it does, Microsoft is not legally allowed to have any say in Nokia's product decisions
Microsoft has been known to do a lot of things that they aren't legally allowed. In this case, I doubt they would not interfere if they didn't want to.
Agree with you,
Without business motive, they hardly do anything :)
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#66512MB ram? My year old android handset has 1GB and is slow as all hell. It hangs, reboots itself, shows weird errors ("Activity Phone is not responding" when somebody is calling) and takes 30 seconds to open firefox. I don't know what Nokia is thinking.
Android 4.4 is targeted to run on low memory (i.e 512MB) devices unlike some of the previous Android releases.
Nokia X runs Android 4.1, not 4.4
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#67Lots of comments & speculations but no good explanation of - Why?
Maybe because Windows Phone can't run on low spec hardware and MS would like to capture the emerging markets.
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#68This is a good move as it addresses the need for cheaper phones in markets like India where the "Nokia Asha" line of phones are a poor substitute against similarly priced low end Android phones. By making the user experience similar to Windows phone and removing Google Mobile Services, they have made it easier to upgrade to the more expensive siblings at a later date.
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#69Re: Nokia announces the X and X+, its first Android phones
#70Ars Technica [1] put it best. These phones are dead on arrival. This is not the first time Nokia has done something like this. It released a Meego version of the N9, its long-in-development Symbian successor, before immediately abandoning the platform and switching to Windows Phone. This isn't a sign of some deep strategy. It's just standard Nokia platform craziness. 1: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/02/nokia-to…
Well the idea was good the implementation sucks as usual. Android without the play store is not as useful or flexible and you can't compete with other budget phones which do have the play store so you're shooting yourself in the foot. As log as there's an easy way for end users to put it on it shouldn't be such a big deal though. What I suspect they are attempting to do is get back into the low budget phone market wh…
They have already proven that WP can run on low spec hardware though with the Lumia 520. It's also a 1GHz, 512MB RAM device.