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http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/16/5315518/nokia-android-phone-windows-phone-ui-rumor
Information has been leaking out for a while regarding a potential Android phone from Nokia code named Normandy. And with Microsoft's purchase almost finished, these articles always suggest the phone may never be launched.
The phone most likely was being developed before Microsoft began the purchase of Nokia. But Nokia has been an exclusive Windows Phone partner for years and Microsoft has already put quite a bit of money into the company. So it doesn't seem all that logical that Nokia would be working on a Windows Phone clone with Android without Microsoft's blessing? For a company that is as dependent on Microsoft as Nokia it wouldn't make sense to do something that could update them.
So I'm thinking maybe this Windows Phone clone has Microsoft's blessing over it and it will really launch.
It's a low end cheap phone. When the Lumia 521 came out for $99 I went out and bought one on a whim just to see what Windows Phone is like. Perhaps this is the goal with this phone too. Make something super cheap that people would buy without feeling like too much risk is involved. Give them a taste of what Windows Phone's UI feels like with Nokia's apps. And since it's running Android where the apps they are already comfortable with are, they'll hopefully use the phone (instead of being a toy I keep in my drawer like the Lumia 521).
So I think it's a phone that Nokia and Microsoft are hoping is a stepping stone between a migration from Android to Windows Phone for many users too timid to make the leap at once.
Information has been leaking out for a while regarding a potential Android phone from Nokia code named Normandy. And with Microsoft's purchase almost finished, these articles always suggest the phone may never be launched.
The phone most likely was being developed before Microsoft began the purchase of Nokia. But Nokia has been an exclusive Windows Phone partner for years and Microsoft has already put quite a bit of money into the company. So it doesn't seem all that logical that Nokia would be working on a Windows Phone clone with Android without Microsoft's blessing? For a company that is as dependent on Microsoft as Nokia it wouldn't make sense to do something that could update them.
So I'm thinking maybe this Windows Phone clone has Microsoft's blessing over it and it will really launch.
It's a low end cheap phone. When the Lumia 521 came out for $99 I went out and bought one on a whim just to see what Windows Phone is like. Perhaps this is the goal with this phone too. Make something super cheap that people would buy without feeling like too much risk is involved. Give them a taste of what Windows Phone's UI feels like with Nokia's apps. And since it's running Android where the apps they are already comfortable with are, they'll hopefully use the phone (instead of being a toy I keep in my drawer like the Lumia 521).
So I think it's a phone that Nokia and Microsoft are hoping is a stepping stone between a migration from Android to Windows Phone for many users too timid to make the leap at once.
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