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this coverage of MWC is brought to you by bitdefender mobile security and in strasbourg are from android 30 what's going on everybody and hopefully you saw the Nokia X and X plus a quick look that I gave like here we have the excel as you can see here it is a much larger device as compared to the 4-inch screen that's found on the X and the X plus we have a 5-inch screen here this is a larger device as you can see I'm just barely able to reach with my thumb and pinky over here on the diagonal there but as far as a design goes it does have that blocky look that has that is in the Nokia X and is pretty much permeated throughout Nokia's a general line of smartphones as a really sturdy feel it is a little bit lighter than your typical Nokia phone however this really flat sided look and design does allow it to be pretty easily held in the hand the button layout is over here on the right side with the power and volume rockers right over here for easy reach a little bit lower on the phone and overall it's a very sturdy looking device you really don't get the same side this is of a low quality build and at the same time you know the design really exudes what Nokia do have just these simple back button right here which should allude to you already what kind of user interface experience you're going to be expecting but other than that there really isn't a whole lot else in terms of the design of the phone like I said already you do have a 5-inch screen right here and it is powered by just like the other two phones it is powered by a Snapdragon s4 that Clarkson adds one gigahertz and in this case we have 768 megabytes of RAM underneath looking on the screen you do have a different looking Android here nokia is using android for the first time in their smart phones here and it is a very different looking one it's a little bit like like the Kindle Fire operating systems that you see on Amazon's products in that it's very 4th and it does not use Google Play services when you get into the UI it does look very much like a Metro UI with all of the tiles and it's just a kind of long scroll down for all of the apps and whatnot and as you can see here there are quite a lot of apps from the Android ecosystem that is the point of these phones is bringing Nokia build quality with the Metro UI look but still being able to use Android applications now unfortunately you don't have Google Play services on here so you're going to not have Gmail and maps and whatnot you will have the Microsoft equivalence of those instead but going through all of the applications it's pretty easy to see that you are able to get them on here in one way or another if not through the Nokia Store then for the third-party applications that's happened to the Android ecosystem in order to download the apps and install them on here it is possible to sideload them as well but that's something that we would say is really your endeavor if you wish to do so in the end you do have a pretty nice-looking UI and there is also this screen right here that allows you to take a quick glance at some of the most recent things that you weren't able to do there is also a stroller gear for music so you'll get some contextual information there as in ways of controlling some of the parts of your phone an easy way on a second screen so that's just a quick look at that I got the Nokia XL here it is a much larger device and they do come in a pretty affordable price points however even that this is a dual sim I don't believe I'll be seeing me in America not really anytime soon but it really will come their way they tell us that they are planning on getting there but for now they're coming to selected markers so the release will be a little bit limited but until then we're going to see what we can do to get our hands I want to give you a full review of Nokia's take on Android once again this is Joshua DARPA Management Authority we're here at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona Spain bringing you all the great coverage make sure you guys stay tuned