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we've waited years for this but here it is at last and Nokia phone powered by Android is the nokia X but is it a smartphone revolution or too little too late so it's powered by Android but you really wouldn't know it and that's because nokia has heavily customized this phones interface it looks a lot like the windows phone interface that you find on Lumia phones it's made up of these big colorful tiles now those tiles can be moved around and resized again that's something borrowed from Windows Phone and if you swipe to the right here you get what Nokia calls your fast lane this shows you your recently used apps as well as notifications unlike Android there's no dedicated app tray where you can see all your apps so if you want to find something specific you have to sort of scroll up and down and that might get a little annoying the other big question hanging over this phone is apps now the biggest advantage of Android is access to the Google Play Store which has so many apps in it but this doesn't have that Google Play access instead you'll have to find your apps using Nokia's App Store or third-party app stores Nokia tells us that if you want you can sideload apps but that's a little adventurous and we don't think most people will want to bother with something like that Android developers will have to tweak their apps if they want them to be available on the nokia X and Nokia also has final say over what appears in the App Store it remains to be seen then whether this thing has enough apps and whether it'll get them quickly enough to really tend us away from other android phones but Nokia is aware that apps are important it's loaded this thing with some of its own apps and some of Microsoft's as well so you get Nokia's here maps Microsoft onedrive so that's the software but what about the hardware this is a 4 inch display it has an 800 x 480 pixel resolution if I spin it around on the back that's a 3 megapixel camera there's no front-facing camera though which might make video chat a little more awkward it's powered by a dual-core 1 gigahertz processor now on paper that's not a very fast ship but actually this thing feels pretty smooth to use the design is classic Nokia Lumia it's got this chunky frame and it comes in loads of different colors now as well as the X you also have the option of buying the x plus which is almost identical except it has slightly more memory and it comes with a microSD card in the box so the software leaves us with some questions but one thing we can't really argue with is the price this thing goes on sale immediately and it's only going to cost eighty nine euros with the X plus going on sale in a few months time and costing 99 euros what do you think of Nokia's take on Android do you like this new interface or do you think it should have stuck with something a bit more familiar let me know i'm luke westaway for cnet t-mobile with congress 2014 check out cnet com for much more