In Barcelona at the MWC(Mobile World Congress) 2014.
Let's start by talking about the home screen and this does not look anything like the regular android home screen, in fact Nokia has tweaked it to make it look much more like the windows phone operating system. You get colourful "blocky" tiles which can be resized and moved around. If you swipe down from the top you do get the android notification panel with the wi-fi, bluetooth and other necessary toggles.
Another major part of this interface is what Nokia calls fast lane. You access that by swiping to the right and this shows your recently used apps as well as notifications.
Interestingly unlike the android there is no dedicated place to find all of your apps they're just all on the home screen so you'll have to scroll up and down until you find the one you're looking for. That could get a little annoying.
The most unusual thing is that these phones do not have access to the Google Play Store instead you'll have to find the apps in Nokia's own app store or third party alternatives. You can still install apk's.
Most of the Apk's will work on the Nokia X.
The Phone is available in Bright green, bright red, cyan, yellow, black, white.
The Nokia X+ and XL share the same chipset - a 1GHz dual-core Snapdragon S4 with 768MB of RAM. The Nokia X is the only one with just 512MB of RAM.
The ultimate question is does this tweaked version of android really have enough apps to be tempted?
and as to that we'll just gonna have to wait and find out.
It is an interesting strategy and an interesting take on the android.
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