Microsoft looks like it's working on a new Android smartphone, the Nokia X2

If reports are correct, Microsoft is already working on a successor to Nokia's Android-based X smartphones, which could ship in 2015.

According to BGR India, Microsoft Mobile, the Finland-based part of Microsoft that makes Nokia-branded phones, has a new Nokia X device in the works.

If the report is accurate, Microsoft will address the Nokia X range's lack of a soft home button, common to all Android devices. As the report notes, X devices don't have Android's scroll down notifications, but rather Nokia's Asha Fastlane hub for messages and media, which is accessed from the home screen. What many didn't realise was that Nokia however made a long press on the back button (to go back to the last open app on Android) a shortcut to the home screen.

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