The Android phone Nokia is expected to release next week at Mobile World Congress will apparently have an interface that looks more like Windows than Android, and feature Microsoft and Nokia services, rather those made by Android-maker Google. It looks as if Microsoft will be exploiting Android's Achilles' heel: Its openness.
Numerous news outlets have reported on the up-coming release of Nokia's low-end Android phone, to be called the Nokia X, including the Wall Street Journal. The Journal says that the phone will be "tailored in a way that won't promote some of the key Google-developed features that a more traditional Android-powered phone might." Instead of Google Maps, it's expected to have Nokia's mapping service. It won't run Google's app store, Google Play, and will instead run a Nokia app store. I would expect it to have some form of Microsoft mail rather than Gmail, and possibly Bing instead of Google as the default search engine. Microsoft's Skype will also be baked in.
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