Nokia X family
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the first-generation Nokia X
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| Manufacturer |
Microsoft Mobile (2014) Nokia (2013-2014) |
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| Series | X |
| Availability by country | 2014 |
| Successor | Nokia 6, Nokia 5, and Nokia 3 |
| Type | Smartphone |
| Form factor | Bar |
| Operating system | Nokia X platform (a fork of Google Android) |
| Data inputs | Touch screen |
| Front camera | 0.3 |
| Development status | Discontinued |
The Nokia X family is a range of smartphones produced and marketed by Microsoft Mobile. It was introduced in February 2014 by Nokia. The smartphones run on the Nokia X platform, an Android-based operating system. The Nokia X devices heavily resemble the newer (50x and 230) Asha phones, and also contain Lumia features. They have a single "back" button like the Asha 50x and 230. A "home" button was added to the X2 series when they were released in June 2014.
Stephen Elop called it the Nokia X family during an announcement, possibly to distinguish it from the unrelated Xseries that ran from 2009 to 2011.
In a company memo released in July 2014, it was announced that as part of cutbacks, Microsoft would end the Asha, Series 40, and X range entirely, in favor of solely producing and encouraging the use of Windows Phone products.
Despite choosing the Windows Phone operating system for its Lumia series of smartphones, Nokia had experimented with the Android platform in the past. Images of a Nokia N9 running Android 2.3 were leaked in 2011. They were believed to be genuine, as Steven Elop mentioned Nokia had considered using Android at one time.
On 13 September 2013, the New York Times writer Nick Wingfield revealed that Nokia had been testing the Google Android operating system on its Lumia hardware. Another project, known as "Asha on Linux", used a forked version of Android without Google services.
The Asha series previously ran the Java-based Series 40 and Asha platforms. These were not as functional as a similarly priced low-end Android handset, a price range that Windows was not able to provide Windows Phones in.Meltemi, a Linux-based operating system designed to replace Series 40, had been scrapped by the company.
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