@evleaks has err leaked a marketing image of the NokiaX, the company's first smartphone running Google's Android operating system.
Three years ago, Nokia plumped for Windows Phone OS for it's Lumia series of devices. The Android phone will lose the Lumia moniker and sell as the Nokia X. It's been known in development as the Nokia Normandy.
It will be a fairly low-end smartphone with a 1GHz processor512MB of RAM, a four-inch screen with an 800x480 resolution.
There will also be a 5-megapixel camera and 4GB of storage which can be boosted with a microSD memory card.
Interesting, the NokiaX will run as heavily modded version of Android speckled with Nokia and Microsoft apps. There will be no Google Play app store, which means Nokia gets to use Android for free. It's only when the store is present on devices that Google charges a fee and persuades manufacturers to include the usual line-up for Google apps...Maps...Hangouts...Drive...Keep and so on and on.
It's not known if Nokia will be including its own store.
This Android device comes shortly before Microsoft is planning to complete it's move to buy Nokia's phones' division. It's known there is pressure within Microsoft to produce high-end device running Android - remembering Windows Phone has still only getting an average 3-ish per cent of the smartphone market.
Microsoft is concerned it will be perceived as flogging the proverbial dead donkey.
We think Microsoft will continue with Windows Phone, with version 8.1 due out in May-ish which is seen as a pretty major update with notification centre, swype-style keyboard and many many other impropvements.
But if interest doesn't pick up after that, the arguement for embracing Android will seem very appealing.
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