Nokia Releasing First Android Phone

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kowenicki said:
This is a rumour... but it could be a smart move if they play it right. Slightly fanyboy article that...

Obviously pitched at the arse end of the market where android excels.

I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole though, partly because I dont buy cheap phones and partly because I don't like android.

I guess that's Nokia looking to return to it's home base then. It became the biggest name in mobile because the arse of the mobile market is really big (so good to read people who spell arse right) and Nokia used to live there.

Kinda makes sense for Nokia to keep WP as the premium / enterprise OS and for Android to serve the rest of the market.

I like cheap(ish) phones because they do 90% of what expensive phones do at 45% of the price. But I avoid arse end phone because the hardware is shite. But if Nokia can actually get its mojo back and make arse end phones with decent quality hardware then they could easily get my money. Before smartphones were a thing Nokia was my preferred brand of mobile phone. But once I went Android I never went back so I left Nokia behind.

We'll probably be switching our smartphones at work from Blackberry to WP8, now that we're finally migrating from XP to Win8.1. So I could easily end up with a WP8 work Nokia and an Android personal Nokia.