Nokia (not Microsoft) goes on hiring spree for mystery Android-centric project

It looks like what’s left of Nokia after Microsoft purchased its mobile device business might have comeback plans for the smartphone market, with Android front and center.

It’s certainly not easy to start over on the heels of a painful fall from grace and much too inexpensive buyout, but Nokia …

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Microsoft dumps Android-based Nokia phones, future X models to run WP

While Microsoft’s lack of interest in developing hardware (loosely) based on Android was always obvious, and the end of Nokia’s X experiment predictable, we sure didn’t expect Redmond to pull the plug so soon after the X2 unveil.

The bleakest predictions relating to Microsoft’s unavoidable layo…

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Microsoft introduces Nokia X2 with Android apps, 4.3-inch display and 1 GB RAM

Basically acknowledging its debut Android effort was a bad judgment call, Nokia Microsoft refined and upgraded the X, delivering a much beefier, worthier low-cost rival for Motorola’s Moto E: the X2 “with Android apps”.

Now this is unusual. The Nokia X, loosely based on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, …

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Nokia teases possible Nokia X2 announcement on June 24th

The teaser carries the tagline “Green with envy” and follows a theme similar to the teasers seen for the Nokia X earlier this year.

Nokia has posted a teaser for a June 24th event, showing a flashy green device along with the tagline “Green with envy”, hinting at the…

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Rumored Nokia X2 with Android gets benchmarked, packs 1 GB RAM

This may sound hard to believe, but Microsoft is allegedly willing to make a pact with the devil and roll out a second-generation Android-based Nokia X smartphone before long.

With Microsoft’s buyout still pending regulatory approvals at the time of Nokia X, X+ and XL’s intros back in Feb…

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Nokia X family not headed stateside, Android app compatibility detailed

Nokia’s surprising trio of Android-based smartphones will reportedly be restricted to “growth markets”, thus dodging North America, and should run 75% of existing Android apps with no glitches or tweaks needed.

Let’s cut the act, Nokia didn’t exactly catch us off guard at the Mobile World Congr…

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Surprise: Nokia announces X, X+, XL trio of Android-based smartphones

Nokia’s Stephen Elop earlier today took the Mobile World Congress stage to officially showcase the company’s first ever Android-running smartphone, the notorious X, along with the surprising X+ and XL.

Well, it’s finally happened. Nokia, despite close relations to Microsoft, has gone to the &#8…

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X marks the spot: Nokia X caught on camera ahead of official unveil

Images of Nokia’s upcoming entry-level Android device Nokia X leak.

There hasn’t been a device that has leaked as many times as the Nokia X in recent memory. The mystery surrounding the device is understandable, considering the fact that the Nokia X is its first Android-based device. After num…

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Multiple Android-running Nokia devices allegedly in the works, including flagships

Chinese media is today raving about Nokia’s future Android plans, as unnamed sources “on the inside” suggest the Normandy will be followed by several other handhelds based on Google’s mobile OS, the first of which might land as soon as May.

It’s crazy to think we’ve gone from Nokia’s never goin…

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Nokia X appears in benchmark with 3-megapixel fixed-focus camera and Android 4.1

Nokia’s Android aspirations might be given the boot by Microsoft once its devices business is sold off to the Redmond giant, but it seems it isn’t stopping the Finns from continuing to test the Nokia X (aka Normandy.)

The Nokia X has been caught flexing its (rather modest) muscles…

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