Read more.Available in the coming weeks for €89, €99 and €109, respectively.
Read more.Available in the coming weeks for €89, €99 and €109, respectively.
If these are to sit between the Asha and Lumia, then I'm guessing the prices are going to be pretty "budget" for Android smartphones. Like the design, and the 5MP camera in the XL, and they support uSD card storage ...
... but having to rely on yet another 3rd party app store? That's a "fail" in my book - at least until someone in xda-developers figures out how to put Gapps on there.However you won't be using the Google Play Store with these mobiles straight out of the box, your apps will come from the Nokia App Store.
Hopefully, Nokia will be "developer friendly" and make it easy to reflash with a custom ROM. In which case these could do pretty well imho.
It's what ruins the kindle and it's what ruins every other Android device. Why? It's pointless. You might as well keep stupid windows on it - the ONLY reason I wanted to see Android on Nokia phones is for the apps.
For goodness sake Microsoft, you're not doing very well at the moment.
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Think all these 3rd party app stores are stupid. They never have as many apps as the main app store ie play store etc yet manufacturers still try to make people use them. If you can't do it right, don't do it at all.
What I really want to see is a top spec Nokia running android to match or beat other manufacturers.
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But are you part of the target market for these bottom-of-the-range phones? If not, I doubt Nokia or MS care whether you (or I) like them.
It is a cheap smartphone for emerging markets, and delivers a message that Android is downmarket and WP upmarket. It also ties users in to Microsoft services whilst at the same time taking sales from phones that link to Google's store.
First thing I thought was YES! Then I read that the phones would be using MS services and I thought NO! Would have bought one, now I will not.
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