Better late than never…Can Nokia find a place in Android World???
Nokia's much awaited first
Android phone, believed to be dubbed Nokia X with model number A110 (and
codenamed Normandy), has again been listed on a Vietnamese online retailer. The
same was listed in the same website without any price earlier and now it has
taken attention with listing of price details. That is actually quite fitting
considering that much of this story came out of the country.
According to the listing, this
handset will cost between 2.2 million to 2.5 million VND which works out to
about $110 USD and Rs.6800 approx. However, there is no word on the
availability of the alleged Nokia X A110. The new listing indicates that the
yet-to-be-announced Nokia X might be first hitting the Vietnamese market, soon
after being launched.
Rumoured specifications of the
alleged Nokia X include a 4-inch TFT display with a resolution of 480x854
(FWVGA) pixels; a 1GHz dual-core Snapdragon 200 processor; 5-megapixel rear
camera; microSD card support and Android 4.4 KitKat.
The Nokia X handset was
previously said to sport a 5-megapixel rear camera, however the CamSpeed
benchmark hinted that the handset would arrive with a lower 3-megapixel camera.
Earlier reports have suggested that the alleged Nokia X comes with model number RM-980, which the Finnish giant has been developing for some months now, a device that is supposedly being developed under the Project Normandy program. An earlier report indicated that Nokia, following the lead of Amazon, has been working on a fully-tailored or forked version of Android for the alleged Normandy program, like the software on the online retail giant's Kindle Fire tablet range.
The rumoured Nokia X budget Android phone is said to be targeted at the low-cost segment as an Asha-equivalent smartphone, but with access to more traditional smartphone apps - a benefit that the report suggests has been missing in Nokia's dated Series 40-based Asha phones. Further, the report describes the Nokia Normandy efforts as 'full steam ahead'.
Earlier reports have suggested that the alleged Nokia X comes with model number RM-980, which the Finnish giant has been developing for some months now, a device that is supposedly being developed under the Project Normandy program. An earlier report indicated that Nokia, following the lead of Amazon, has been working on a fully-tailored or forked version of Android for the alleged Normandy program, like the software on the online retail giant's Kindle Fire tablet range.
The rumoured Nokia X budget Android phone is said to be targeted at the low-cost segment as an Asha-equivalent smartphone, but with access to more traditional smartphone apps - a benefit that the report suggests has been missing in Nokia's dated Series 40-based Asha phones. Further, the report describes the Nokia Normandy efforts as 'full steam ahead'.
