Nokia X Gets A PhP5990 Price Tag In The Philippines, To Launch In March 11th

The hottest and the most talk about Nokia Android mobilephone in the recently concluded Mobile World Congress 2014 in Barcelona , Spain, the Nokia X, will plunge full throttle in one of Nokia's stronghold in Asia Pacific, the islands Philippines.

Its currently being listed in one of the leading online stores in the country for PhP5,990.00, its official introductory retail price with a full Nokia 1 year warranty. Expect a little bump in the price in Nokia flagship stores and far less in Grey markets.

The Nokia X is one of the first three device from the company that runs Android Open Source Project operating system with a Nokia X software platform 1.0 user interface that is a combination of Microsoft's Windows Phone Tile UI and the Asha Touch UI's Fastlane feature. It will also carry Microsoft's leading services and features like One Drive cloud storage and one month Skype Unlimited World Subscription, and Nokia's unbeatable navigation tools like the offline HERE maps and HERE drive, as well as Nokia Mix Radio offering free online music streaming and offline playlist download among the rest of Nokia's exclusive services.

Hardware specs includes a 4" IPS WVGA (800 x480) (233ppi) capacitive touch, 3MP camera fixed focus, 520MB RAM and 4GB eMMC, 1GHZ Qualcomm Snapdragon dual core processor, 1500mAh Battery, Dual SIM and Dual Standby, WiFi, Bluetooth 3.0+ HS and more.

Watch this space for updates on the upcoming event.

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Nokia Launch 3 Android Devices Amidst Microsoft Buy Out

Its finally official, the year round rumor was finally announce today at the Mobile World Congress 2014 in Barcelona, Spain. But its not just one device, Nokia surprises the mobilephone world with three, the Nokia X, Nokia X+ and the Nokia XL, creating the loudest salvo yet in worlds biggest technology fair.

Most probably, the people who were the most excited with this announcements are Android developers because it would allow them to tap into the millions of Nokia supporters and enthusiasts; Android converts who were previously Symbian supporters wanting an Android running Nokia hardware; and the mass market as whole giving them more options to buy quality products at an affordable prize. The least happy, Google most definitely because they cant earn anything from it being forked without their income generating apps and services and Microsoft since it will be a direct competitor to their affordable Lumia devices like the Nokia Lumia 520.

The Nokia trio runs an Android 4.4 Kitkat beneath, had Nokia's world renowned attractive design and quality construction, a tile based user interface like that of Windows Phone, the infamous Fastlane of the Asha's, offline HERE maps and navigation suite, Nokia Mix Radio offering free online music streaming and offline playlist download, One Drive cloud storage, one month Skype Unlimited World Subscription among other Nokia and Microsoft's exclusive apps and services.

Nokia X

The phones hardware specs includes a 4" IPS WVGA (800 x480) (233ppi) capacitive touch, 3MP camera fixed focus, 520MB RAM and 4GB eMMC, 1GHZ Qualcomm Snapdragon dual core processor, 1500mAh Battery, Dual SIM and Dual Standby, WiFi, Bluetooth 3.0+ HS and more.

Color variants: Bright green, Bright red, Cyan, Yellow, Black and White

Price: 89 Euro or PhP5,450.00 more or less, rolling-out in Asia-Pacific, Europe, India, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa immediately.

Nokia X+

The phone had identical hardware specs to that of Nokia X except that it has a bigger RAM of 768MB.

Color variants: Bright green, Bright red, Cyan, Yellow, Black and White

Price: 99 Euro or PhP6,060.00 more or less, rolling out in Q2 2014

Nokia XL

Phone hardware specs includes 5" IPS WVGA (800 x480) (187ppi) capacitive touch, 5MP camera auto focus, 2MP front facing camera, 768MB RAM,vand 4GB eMMC, 1GHZ Qualcomm Snapdragon dual core processor, 2000mAh Battery, Dual SIM and Dual Standby, WiFi, Bluetooth 3.0+ HS and more.

Color variants: Bright green, Orange, Cyan, Yellow, Black and White

Price: 109 Euro or PhP6,680.00 more or less, rolling out in Q2

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Hot Video: Nokia Green (Android?) Ducks On The Move!

5 Days to go before Mobile World Congress 2014 and green ducks from Nokia will invade, as depicted in their latest teaser video.

I don't know what Nokia wants to imply here, but I'm 1110% sure now that the company is not going to announce an Android device because green doesn't signify the operating system and much more, ducks, which made me remember by the way of a Danish children literary fairy tale with an Ugly in the title.

This might just be an environment related announcement or a call for world peace! :D

What do you think? Lets all find out then.

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Making sense of the Nokia Normandy

When rumor came out about Nokia coming up with an Android running handset, everyone was poking about it like its a statement made during April Fools Day for the reason that the company is tied up exclusively to Microsoft, but when Microsoft confirmed it themselves giving huge credence to the incident as one of the main reason why they bought Nokia's business device division, the poking stopped, and all Nokia Android hopefuls were devastated since it would only mean the said plan is far from fruition, not until lately when leaks came out about Nokia Normandy (Nokia X), a fully running Android handset forked to the taste of Metro UI which I saw as a compromised to get Microsoft's blessing.

Lets try to make sense with this strategy of Nokia and Microsoft:

First and foremost, they must have read the famous saying that "If you can't beat them, join them!" but with a trojan twist, like what Microsoft deed with Nokia when they throw Elop to the picture resulting to the latter's demise, according to conspiracy theorists that is. The trojan trick behind Nokia Normandy is that it is designed to prevent Google from earning revenues out of their offered services with Microsoft's full software being tagged instead. Smart move I would say, beating Google in their home front, but the question now is, how long will Google allow it and up to what extent?

Secondly, Nokia had already close their application store to developers affecting their Asha line up. Without the Nokia store, Asha is as good as dead, and for Microsoft and Nokia to compete in entry level market, they need an operating system with vast collection of apps. In this regards, Android is their only option.

Third, cheap, they need to offer a device that could compete against emerging Chinese manufacturers who re-brand phones, and in what operating can Nokia and Microsoft keep the price dirt cheap, again, Android with the system being free to EOM's. With this system, Nokia could go down to as much as $50.00 per phone, well enough to compensate the hardware cost, like what this aforementioned manufaturers are doing.

And finally, because Windows Phone is not ready to power entry level handset just yet, the bulk of the phone market, that is, currently being gobbled up by competitors. This market is used to be Nokia's stronghold few years back, now its slowly slipping away, drained to small competitors who were willing to offer practicality other than quality.

Since their is no stopping the Normandy from being released to the world, I could presumed that I'm more likely be able to own an Android device first than Windows Phone because I can easily afford it being cheap, and that still, I find the Microsoft operating system incomplete. Now don't get me wrong here, I like Windows Phone more than Android, its just that the system is not worthy to replaced my well loved Symbian just yet. I'll be buying the Normandy to have access to my favorite apps like access to full Viber features, SWYPE, Flipboard and more; not to be left out to the world for cool new ones since Nokia Store is being shelve; and that it will be made by a trusted brand, nothing more. I will even use it only as a back up reloader phone with Nokia E6 as my primary.

But Microsoft should not feel complacent about it, I might grew fond of Android in the process and rather go with it all the way. They must act fast to heed the calls of every Symbian enthusiasts who were running out road to take. Listen, develop, execute... Its now or never!

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