Nokia has been playing with Android phones before being bought ... - Engadget

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Nokia Phones with Android OS inside were a reality, and even was a possibility that had appeared on the market sometime next year. With the purchase by Microsoft, this path was truncated logically.

So what we have from New York Times, which says that a team was working on it. Lumia devices with Google’s operating system is something that would have sounded very well for many followers of the firm, and maybe, a faster path to the benefits that they chose with Microsoft.

All this happened long before the purchase negotiations – late 2012, early 2013 – and apparently Microsoft came to know of its existence . It is said that the ability to jump to Android was not an important ingredient in the negotiations between Nokia and Microsoft, however, leave the fact Windows Phone in the future would be a final post for the platform.

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playing his cards before the end of the alliance

To our knowledge, Nokia could choose another operating system in late 2014 – time when the alliance ended -, and it seems logical to contemplate different options before arriving at those dates. It has all the earmarks that this plan B would have been the ultimate motivator purchase by Microsoft.

The privileged position of Nokia in the platform was hard-won, and picked up with tweezers, since the very Microsoft also intended to present his own phone , in case you did not lift Finns Windows Phone. What they found was that Nokia Redmond got the 90% of sales, and there was an ecosystem of manufacturers, as there is in Android, and as she had in Windows.

A low-end Android phone?

One of the projects in which they worked had the name “AOL” Asha on Linux, which had to do with the low-end and nothing with Windows Phone. Parallel to this there was also a “ MView “, which could easily be associated with the house of Google, Mountain View.

realized they were designing a variant of Android – as does Amazon – for low-end terminals. The rumored appearance date, 2014, and he could have achieved good profit margins.

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That is apparently the most advanced way, but he was not alone, because Nokia also was testing Google platform on hardware Lumia family, on the high-end Windows Phone ready in case it was not the best choice at the end of the alliance.

Sources

Finnish company specialized in as My Nokia Blog, speak of the Surface in working Microsoft had a five-inch screen, quad-core processor and eight-megapixel camera.

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