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this coverage of mwc is brought to you by bitdefender mobile security hey it's stressful garfin manager I thought hey what's going on everybody and yes here in my hands is the brand new smart phone from nokia that runs android and everyone has been asking for android firm okay a rather to put out an android smartphone and this is exactly what we're looking at it may not necessarily be what you expect but we're going to go through all of the features and this in my hand is the nokia X now there is an X and X plus and I will take a look at the XL in a little bit but essentially the ex and the X plus are essentially the same phone however the X plus has 768 megabytes of RAM while this one right here is the ridges the X base model at 512 as far as the build quality goes we have a very very very reminiscent type of build quality as compared to let's say the Nokia 928 that I originally review quite a while ago has a very blocky design it does sit quite nicely in the hand especially with this 4 inch screen right here and the the bill quality really just kind of exudes nokia it really is just kind of what you expect from them if this is the yellow color of course and as you can see across all of the various parts of the phone it's very simplistic we have the power the power and volume markers right over here on the right side and it is pretty easy to hold especially with that size once one lone back button right here and that's one thing that you will notice is different in terms of the interface of the experience of the phone because when we turn it on you'll see that it looks very much like a windows phone 8 type of OS this is the Metro UI essentially that has the same aesthetics and and it is powered by Android but they did focus on giving it the natural look so Android is the back end here that allows you to install android applications from the Android ecosystem however what you may know already is that the nokia X line does not include Google Play services so you won't be getting say google play music gmail you won't be getting any of those here as far as all of the built-in applications go as you can really see skype is over here yes they are going to be Microsoft centric applications including email and whatnot and also maps however when it comes to installing applications here on the UI it is possible for you to install third-party applications that tap into the Android apps and get them installed onto here as well so those are definitely possible for applications like say Instagram and well Facebook is on here and it is part of the windows phone ecosystem easily but you will see a few applications here like let's say candy crush that is here you have an Android style power would you write here so it is possible to get android apps on here it's just a matter of how you're going to do it there are a couple ways including side loading but that's not necessarily something that Nokia really academics doing obviously because they're not really working at Google but that's perfectly fine what we have here is the first android-powered device from Nokia it does look quite nice the UI it's really up to you whether or not it's something that you like but it does look quite organized it's very simplistic I'll bring down the notification drop-down you do have the power widget there the other thing too as you can see up there is these phones are dual sim now these phones are going to come in at very affordable price points sub 200 around there for the nokia X and X plus however they will not be coming to the states as of yet and we're going to see them probably a little bit later in the year hopefully out in more select markets but for now it's a bit of a limited release at least for us in the West so this is a quick look at the nokia X we do not have the X plus but we're going to take a look at the XL in just a moment stay tuned to android authority for all the best coverage from here at the mobile world congress in barcelona spain