Rumours of an Android-powered Nokia phone have been simmering in the background for some time now, the most recent of which established that the so-called Nokia Normandy, a phone that was leaked by evleaks in November, was not a Windows-powered phone but instead would be running a Kindle-like proprietary Android OS. This was music to many people’s ears as there has been widespread displays of longing for the mobile king of old to use Android instead of Windows which has culminated in the company’s sale to Microsoft.
Today, evleaks has put up yet more leaked photos of the Nokia Normandy, this time with a greater colour palette, in true Nokia fashion. A few things I neglected to notice in the first Normandy leaked photo include the fact that the “home” button is ambiguous; by that I mean that Windows-powered Nokia phones always have the Windows symbol adorning the home button and this has a home key that can be more similarly compared to the HTC home key with capacitive soft keys on either side. The other thing I noticed, which is more mundane, is the fact that the phone does not appear to have a flash, though that might be because this is only a concept render (or not real).
We still don’t know if this phone will ever hit the shelves outside of Nokia’s walls as its acquisition by Microsoft is still wrapping up. But with a rumoured release in 2014, we can still hope that the stars and planets align so that some of us can finally live the fantasy of having a Nokia smartphone running Android.
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