Nokia to Debut Android Phone, Says WSJ
Low spec phone...
What about future OS updates? I don't see this phone being updated outside of flashing it, which seems like a lot of effort for a low end phone. Even if you could get a more current Android OS to run on it, it probably will not run very well, because of OS requirements. Despite what people may say about android being able to run their current OS on any hardware, it is not going to run well on these phones.
The other issue is that the services that will be installed on the phone already will probably not run on a flashed version of android, anyway. The way I see it, buy the phone for what it is and call it a day. This move is most likely to introduce MS and Nokia services and apps in low end markets, with the idea tha...
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Google is being very dishonest and disingenuous here, they claim that they won't authorize Google services because Windows Phone 'doesn't have a big enough market share', they also know that Google services are so important and popular in mobile that not having Google services means that most people will never even consider Windows Phone. Basically, the only way that Windows Phone will ever able to gain mark...
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Fifty million users is a large enough base to develop services. Then again, short of WP over taking Android, or even iPhone, they will never consider the user base large enough.
Google was very free and open before they created their own mobile OS....
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