Nokia X

[Super Lloyd]

So.. Nokia is releasing some Android phone just being acquired by Microsoft? WTF? What do you think? Are you gonna buy one?

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[GSN CP]

Apparently, the unit of Nokia (Nokia CTO) has not been bought by Microsoft! So it may develop some more units if it gets a good response from public! A desperate attempt to rise! Also, it uses a forked version of android, which i suspect won't be of that interest to the general public, but who knows what might click for them! Acc. to the specs, it has a really good battery life and is inexpensive which could be a selling point!

.:>GSN<:.

[Jochen Arndt]

The development of the phone started before Microsoft was interested in Nokia. They finished development and invested money. Now they have two options: Cancel the project or sell the phone and get some money back. This is not the first time that Nokia sells a product because it has been developed but was not really interested in supporting it for a longer period: Same story with the N9 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N9[^]) using the MeeGo OS and the PureView 808 using Symbian. If you think about buying one, ask yourself: How long will the phone get updates?

[Rage]

Super Lloyd wrote:

WTF?

Sometimes, to sell, you have to go in the same direction of market trends.

~RaGE();

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[Rage]

GSN.CP wrote:

it uses a forked version of android, which i suspect won't be of that interest to the general public

I suppose general public does not even care about which version of Android runs on their phone.

~RaGE();

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[OriginalGriff]

Jochen Arndt wrote:

If you think about buying one, ask yourself: How long will the phone get updates?

And the other question: do you care? If it's cheap, and good, and (let's be honest) you will change it in a year or so, then why care if support stops at the end of the warrantee period?

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[Jochen Arndt]

I would care. Because I would not buy a phone for just a year even when it is cheap like the Nokia X. Buying such devices for short times of usage is waste of resources. Overall, everyone has to decide for himself.

[OriginalGriff]

You wouldn't, but many do - look at the iPhone market, where the "current greatest model" is out of fashion by the end of the week. I'm with you to a certain extent - my phone runs Windows Mobile 5, and was released in 2006, so I'm not exactly wasting resources here - but if it died, would lack of support bother me? No - I've never updated a phone, and never needed to. But...I carry my tablet with me everywhere, so I'd be more likely to replace my existing phone with a less intelligent device that just does calls and texts.

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[Charan_Kumar]

yes i will buy