Looks like somebody’s been a little trigger happy. According to a thread in Techrum, the Nokia X, AKA the Nokia Normandy, has been priced on an online retailer in Vietnam, showing the price for the unannounced Nokia phone to be between 2.2 to 2.5 million Vietnamese Dong. Don’t freak out at those numbers though; that amount equates to about $110 USD, which is right about where you’d expect a phone with its specs to be.
As per the rumours we’ve been hearing, we’re expecting the Nokia X to be announced as a low-end Asha device at MWC 2014 followed by a launch in March in multiple markets around the world. We also most recently heard that Nokia may continue to have unhindered development control over the Asha line of phones, letting it potentially create a higher end model of the Nokia X, which I think will appeal a lot more to Android fans, though there is also the issue of it running a forked version of Android. It does seem like the Nokia X has multiple things working against it despite finally adopting an Android OS, though with this low price and Nokia’s lauded reliability, perhaps there is still light at the end of the tunnel.
What do you think about this price for the Nokia X? Does this make it look any more attractive? Let us know what your opinion is in the comments.
Source: Techrum via Phone Arena
