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we've waited so long for a Nokia phone based on Android and now several have come along at once this is the Nokia XL let's investigate as the name implies the XL is larger than Nokia's ex phone it has a 5-inch display and around the back there's a 5 megapixel camera as well on the front meanwhile there's a 2 megapixel camera for Skype or taking the odd selfie and the whole design of this phone is extremely reminiscent of Nokia's Lumia line including the external design and the look of the actual software so this is Android but not as we know it nokia has heavily customised Google's operating system to make the excel so let's see what you can do this is your home screen where all your apps are unlike raw Android there's no specific app tray so to see all of the apps you've got you have to keep scrolling down here if you move over to the right you get what Nokia calls Fastlane which shows you recent apps that you've used and notifications if you're not happy with the way your home screen looks you can rearrange these icons like this just hold down on one of the tiles and you'll get the option to resize them and change where abouts they are on the screen so the big advantage of Android is that it has loads and loads of apps but unfortunately the XL won't grant you access to Google's Play Store instead you'll have to use Nokia's own App Store and third-party ones as well and there's a question over whether they'll have enough to really tempt people the really good news though is that this thing is not going to be too expensive it's only going to cost 109 euros when it goes on sale in the next few months so we're not completely convinced yet by Nokia's take on Android but we are pleased with that low cost and it could mean that this phone is really good value wait for the full review I'm the Westerosi net at Mobile World Congress checkout cnet.com for much more