Nokia Announces Nokia X Android Smartphone

A user writes "Despite some industry skepticism, Nokia has indeed been working on an Android smartphone and finally unveiled the Nokia X today. As rumored, it's not a Google Play compatible device, running instead a Google-less AOSP build with a Nokia app store, and Windows Phone style shell. The budget phone will also not be marketed in North America. The Media seems convinced Microsoft — who are in the process of acquiring Nokia — will kill the project, but it's hard to see why Nokia would be working on such a project at this time if Microsoft had plans to do this."

i have to ask

[beefoot]

Since Nokia makes wonderful handset, could existing nokia handsets running windows be modded to run android?

I wouldn't have believed it - even uglier than WP

[daboochmeister]

If someone had suggested they could release an interface even more playskool, offputting and uglier than WP's tiles, I would have told them they were simply crazy. Alas, I was wrong.

Re:I wouldn't have believed it - even uglier than

[tepples]

A phone UI can't get more Fisher-Price than this one [drugstore.com].