It could be said that the adventure of the Finnish company Nokia with the Android operating system has been brief but intense. After its sale to the American company Microsoft, this manufacturer has been forced to put aside the project through which it wanted to add some integration between the applications of the Android operating system and the Windows Phone operating system itself. And as we have learned on this occasion, the terminal that will close this part of Nokia's history will be the Nokia XL 4G, an improved version in many technical aspects of the Nokia XL that we met earlier this year.
Initially aimed at the Asian market, the Nokia XL 4G comes with a screen five inches reaching a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels. Staying inside a processor Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 of four cores operating at 1.2 GHz clock speed in company with a memory RAM of 1 gigabyte. The internal storage capacity is set at 4 GigaBytes, and can be expanded using an external microSD memory card up to a maximum of 32 GigaBytes. The battery, meanwhile, has a capacity of 2,000 mAh. A curious feature of the Nokia XL 4G is that it incorporates the Nokia X operating system in version 1.1 as standard (just like the first Nokia XL), which is strange considering that the new Nokia X2 comes standard with the platform. of Nokia X in its version 2.0.
Leaving aside the presentation of this new smartphone, the truth is that it is inevitable to take a look back in time to try to understand what Nokia wanted to achieve among users by introducing the possibility of installing Android applications on Windows Phone. Perhaps one of the main objectives of this addition was to attract undecided users who were slightly familiar with the Android operating system and who were looking for a smartphone that was as economical as possible. And certainly the idea was not far-fetched, since the main claim of mobiles such as the Nokia X, the Nokia X + and the Nokia XLit was the price: none of them exceeded 110 euros when they were launched on the market.
The problem appeared at the moment in which a user who had acquired a mobile with the Nokia X platform found that, if he wanted to advance in the range, the only terminals available within Nokia were mobiles that came standard with the Windows operating system Phone (without any compatibility with Android applications). This meant that the user was forced to discard precisely one of the characteristics that had convinced him to give Microsoft's mobile operating system a try. And that, broadly speaking, seems to have been something not well pleased for owners of Nokia X.
