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Monday, February 24, 2014

Nokia announces 3 new Android powered smartphones at MWC 2014: X, X+ and XL

 Nokia's Android running smartphones goes official at Mobile World Congress 2014. Nokia didn't announce just one but 3 smartphones in the Nokia X line-up. This line-up includes Nokia X, Nokia X+ and Nokia XL. All these smartphones are made up of plastic body and available in a wide range of colors. All the three
smartphones UI is much similar to Windows 8. These phone will be deprived of Google Play but would run Android apps from Nokia's app store given in the phones. And these could also run third party Android apps. Details are discussed below:


Nokia X and X+ comes with a 4" (800 x 480) IPS LCD display with a pixel density of 233ppi while the XL packs a 5" display. All of these are powered by 1GHz processor (Qualcom 200 chipset). X is paired with 512MB of RAM and X+ & XL are paired with 768MB of RAM. Nokia X, X+ and XL features a 2MP, 3MP and 5MP (with LED flash) rear camera respectively. Internal memory of the smartphones is 4GB with SD card slot up to 32GB. All of these smartphones will be priced under €109. They will soon hit the emerging markets (not specified) in the Q2 of 2014.

These smartphones are rather a combination of Android and Windows 8. They also feature Nokia's Glance screen. This features allows the user to customize the installed apps on different home screens like the Android. And the apps will appear as resizable tiles like the Windows 8 start screen. To change between the screens, just swipe finger like you would do in Android.

Another advantage for the Nokia X users is free premium skype. Nokia will offer all the Nokia X-line up users premium skype for users free for 1 month.


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