Monday, February 24, 2014

Windroid: Nokia Android phones

Nokia experiments with its first Android phones - Feb. 24, 2014:
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Android apps, WinPhone looks ?

Mobile World Congress: "Windroid" From Nokia; a Full-Touch E-Ink Russian Phone | MIT Technology Review

a tiled Windows Phone feel to the interface; Microsoft services like Skype and Outlook; and some solid Nokia services, such as its Here maps and Mix radio. Call it “Windroid.”

... but even as they use an operating system based on the Android Open Source Project, you can’t tap the million-plus apps in Google’s Play store, or get popular Google apps such as Gmail and Chrome. Developers can modify Android apps to run on the devices, and Nokia will offer “hundreds of thousands” of apps in its app store...

So it is not quite the same thing... 

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