Nokia's Android Phone Turns Into A Reality and Is Coming This Month

It has come to pass; what was once an impossibility is now inching closer to reality. The Wall Street Journal reported that Nokia's Android Phone will be officially unveiled at Mobile World Conference towards the end of the month. Nokia already has a scheduled press conference. The device is code-named 'Normandy' and set to launch at the Mobile World Conference. Normandy won't be running the standard Android OS with Google Mobile Services, instead, it will run on a forked version of Android where Nokia will integrate Microsoft Services into the OS, and will also have a separate app store which will feature some of the existing Android app catalogue. The handset is reported to launch as the "Nokia X", and will feature a Windows Phone-like UI also inspired by Nokia's previous phone operating systems. Applications such as Twitter, Facebook, Skype, Vine and BBM are said to run on the OS, although with a separate app store - similar to Amazon's version of Android used on Kindle devices. The phone, according to leaked images will have the stylish look similar to that of the Lumia devices (including the vibrant colours) The phone is also rumored to be low end, running on 512 MB of RAM and 4 GB of internal storage. This is actually a "sandwich" strategy on Nokia's part, with the top services and the bottom hardware from Nokia/Microsoft, and the middle platform layer being Android. Normandy has some real potential. Let's see how this works out.