Nokia's Android Phone 'Normandy' :
Nokia has been building its own Android phone named 'Normandy'. We know that Nokia was working on an Android phone before it was acquired by Microsoft. With the belief that Microsoft's purchase of Nokia's Devices and Services division led to the scrapping of the Android powered Nokia 'Normandy'. Microsoft markets the competing windows phone operating system. Microsoft said that, people prefer Android to Windows on mobile devices...and it wouldn't hurt Microsoft to have a hit phone in its new mobile handset division.The phone may come a wide range of colours - green, red, black, yellow and white. The phone is expected to be released sometime in 2014.
The phone also appears to have one capacitive button beneath the screen, which takes the form of a back button. The handset is believed to be a low-cost phone. Speculations are rife that it will be forked variant of Android. In other words. it will run a stripped-down version of Android OS. It follows a forked path with a different design from the Android we know. Amazon does something similar with Android software in the Kindle Fire tablets, which have a completely customised interface designed to point you to towards Amazon's own services.
It looks like a Lumia-style device and is said to be supporting applications like Skype and other popular top applications. 'Normandy' is designed an Asha equivalent to push low-cost devices with access to more traditional smartphone apps - something the company has struggled to achieve for its Series 40-powered Asha line. Nokia's effort is similar to Amazon's own use of the Android, allowing the company to customize it fully for its own use. Nokia employees working on Normandy were informed the device is planned as a 2014 release, and one insider described the Normandy effort as "full steam ahead". Unless Nokia manages to release Normandy ahead of its Microsoft deal.
Meanwhile a new Windows phone appears to have been leaked by an accessories manufacturer. Wireless Ground is showing off a case for a Nokia Lunia 929.
Let's see should Nokia go Android or that would be a admitting Windows Phone......?