If the latest coming out of the technological rumor mill is to be believed, it looks lime we will be see a Lumia phone running on Android OS sooner rather than later. The information came form evleaks in a tweet that did not quite reveal much.
It’s bizarre because first of all, the Lumia brand has always been about Windows Phone devices, which is why the first Android phones from Nokia had the Nokia X brand name. Secondly, since when did Microsoft become so interested in making Android phones that it is willing to let go of its major brands to run on rival software?
If at all this is true, and we do see a Lumia Android phone, it will likely be a higher-end device but running the same basic software as the Nokia X phones. Perhaps Microsoft sees these as a means to push its services to the people. Services such as Bing, Outlook, OneDrive, OneNote, etc. are available exclusively on the Nokia X devices without the rival Google services. Services unique only to Nokia too like the Here Maps (formerly Nokia Maps) might also get a place on the new devices.
What this means for Windows Phone remains to be seen but you can’t blame the company for trying other things considering Windows Phone still hasn’t taken off as expected. I am serioulsy waiting to see the ripples to be generated by this alleged phones on it launch.
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