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the Verge - a site that is known not to get dizzy on unfounded rumors - a report by Tom Warren on a doozy of a product without notice. It is a Nokia phone codenamed "Normandy", and the party is surprising is its operating system :. A customized version of Android
The reason why this is surprising, of course, is that Nokia is betting its entire smartphone future on Microsoft Windows Phone there nearly three years, and device group is now on track to become a part of Microsoft. The idea that Nokia is or has recently been building a handset using Google's Android is a bit of a puzzle -. And any scenario involving the company making once it is part of Microsoft seems almost unthinkable
(OK, I want to intelligently explain why a Microsoft phone running Android makes sense for Microsoft, or feels like something Microsoft would but I can not come up with any logical justification - .. if you can tell me please in the comments)
As noted Warren, a supposed picture be a phone "Normandie" got tweeted by @evleaks in November (see picture above). And back in September, Nick Wingfield of the New York Times reported that Microsoft knew that Nokia is working on an Android phone. So the idea of Nokia to Android, at least as a side bet, is nothing new.
Windows Phone was so dependent on Nokia you can certainly envision Microsoft freaking out on any sign of the Finnish phonemaker flirt with another operating system. The prospect may even have incited to purchase sooner rather than later; if Nokia had liquidated abandoning Windows Phone, it could have killed Microsoft's mobile OS.
For now, I guess all Android-based Nokia, which was in the works will remain a unique curiosity. But if it reach the market - either the Nokia brand or as a Microsoft phone - what I know: It will be one of the most Dumbfounding technology stories of 2014
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