[VIDEO] Check out the Nokia X running Nova Launcher
The Nokia X’s launch at MWC 2014 has been bittersweet for Android fans everywhere; while we’ve been waiting quite some time for a Nokia device that runs the Android OS, that reality was snatched away from us when it was revealed that the Nokia X would instead run a forked version of Android that would use Nokia’s own app store instead of the Google Play Store. Thankfully though, as it is Android at its heart, you can still sideload apks on the device, as demonstrated by Tech Reporter English who installs several apks during this video and shows us the Nokia X running Nova Launcher; skip forward to 2:23 if you want to jump straight to the Nova Launcher part:
As expected from a device with a 1GHz processor and only 512 MB RAM, it’s definitely not the smoothest we’ve ever seen Nova Launcher run, but it’s definitely a more familiar sight to see the Android homescreen rather than Nokia’s Windows Phone inspired dock. As you can probably expect as the phone starts being sold around the world, clever boffins will be trying everything they can to get “real” Android onto the Nokia X, which should hopefully start trickling out in the near future.
Are you considering a Nokia X or is the forked Android OS a bit much for you? Let us know what you think in the comments.
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