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@Half-Life_4_Life -- IIRC Nokia can relase new phones under Nokia brand, but they can't be called Lumia -- it's reserved for win phones.

@captainofiron -- I'd like to see some *quality* phones like E52 was, but with upgraded hw. We have few of them at work and are dying one by one :( Small, fast, simple, true workhorse ...

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I had the E52 as my first "better phone". :)

And I am not sad at all that now Nokia can't make phones under the Lumia name because that's WP. :P

Well, we just have to wait until MWC, looking forward to that.

Now anything is better than WP for Nokia.

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I'm not sad at all that Nokias not producing any phones. I am sad that the vision of a Linux distro shipped in the form of a iDevice isn't an option.

Android is great but not what we've been asking for.

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I think at the moment, nokias only choice is android. No one wants wp except ms. Android has a large ecosystem, and Nokia's biggest reputation is hardware quality and design. Lots of android phones lack that. Sadly I think for all Nokia's past OS's, its too late to be revived, the support just isn't there, nor the funding for a large overhaul. Most people would be put off by not being able to change the wallpaper by stock in Harmattan, imagine all of the things that would need to be fixed. I think Nokia's best bet is to go with android for the time being, recover the company (with android), then invest in their own OS's.

But then again that's never going to happen.

Thanks microsoft.

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You can all throw your dreams about Meltemi, MeeGo etc phone from Nokia happening. There's not a single large investor who would want Nokia to throw money at that again and Nokia lives for its investors, like any other company.

Android in a other hand is a great fit. Android is the Windows of today and with all the connected stuff Nokia is planning on cars and likely expanding it to other devices (wearable, accessories?) in a form of Internet of Things, it's a possibility they would expand that line to Android phones. Who knows. Nokia should not care at this point anymore what OS its devices are running on or support.

Also about those pictures, they are from evleaks. I don't know a single picture or rumor from evleaks that didn't end up being true. Evleaks on his last tweet for the first time finally himself said the device is running Android.

I don't doubt the device exists at all. What I'm not sure is what's the idea behind it. Is it Nokia Research project, and so Nokia's own project or it it made by the device unit left to MS? Will it actually get released? It's not totally impossible idea that on the very low end MS could sell forked version of Android, that's UI seems to even have some WP elements, outside the standby screen resembling Swipe UI.
MS after all bought the sharply declining feature phone business. I'm sure MS wants to make money out of it and that likely wont happen with the S40 Asha phones. Though I'm not sure how that would affect MS's Android patent trolling.

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It is very difficult to say what is never going to happen as opposed to what might realistically happen, but I still think that there's going to be a lot of change before Microsoft will start producing Android devices.

I am not saying it is impossible, just that it goes against the current business model they are trying to run. Hence, I honestly believe this is a hoax.
There existed prototypes for this kind of device, yes, but under the current organization they are never going to make it available to public.

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I don't think this is a hoax in the least.
I think its a device running the Asha or Meltemi or WebOS or Harmattan... or a hybrid of the two or three or four.

I don't believe its Android.
I believe it is a prototype Nokia was working on to battle Lumia (ironic isn't it) and the Moto G's at the low-end. But it comes as collateral as MS invades into Nokia's business strategy.

Its possible... but much less likely is the fact that this actually runs Android.
It could've been a project Nokia was working on... but an "idea" that's it, not a business strategy they thought that applies to them any time soon.

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Well, whatever it runs I will be happy about it being not WP.
And IF there are going to be new devices before 2016.

Still don't get this 2016 contract :I

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evleaks: Two ways to interact with Normandy: https://twitter.com/evleaks/status/4...883458/photo/1

Nokia’s Android phone includes Windows Phone-like UI

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