Nokia & Android? Future is always full of surprises

Nokia & Android? Future is always full of surprises

Posted by Unknown on Saturday, 15 February 2014 0

Nokia is shortly going to launch a low cost smartphone running a version of Google’s Android , regardless of the organization's close association with Microsoft Corp and its contending Windows OS, as per a report in the Wall Street Journal.

The handset division of the Finnish organization, which is in the last phases of being gained by Microsoft, will show off the new mobile at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona later in the not so distant future, the report said on Monday, refering to unidentified sources who were acquainted with the matter.

Nokia and Microsoft declined to remark.

The new Android telephone will be aimed at developing markets and won't offer some of Google's higher-end, custom Android features.

Microsoft and its primary handset accomplice Nokia have battled to make an impression in the mobile phone business sector ruled by Samsung's Android devices and Apple Inc's iphone.

As per technology research firm, Strategy Analytics, 79 percent of mobiles transported worldwide a year ago ran on Android, 15 percent were iphones running Apple's ios and just 4 percent ran Windows Phone OS.