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everyone I'm jumping adult court for cnet and this is the Nokia XL this is the largest phone in the nokia X family now the x family is sort of like a combination hybrid of android windows phone and nokia Asha OS Android is the backbone and you've got some icons on top that are reminiscent of both Windows Phone and Asha interfaces with some of the services of both but you can't think of this as an Android phone because you can't use Google Play services you can only get apps through the Nokia Store a little bit limited so keep in mind this experience as you see the rest of the device even though the screen is 5 inches pixel density is pretty low about 187 PGI versus somewhere in the 300 range for higher end phones so although you do get the real estate for watching movies reading the articles you're still not going to see is sharp and crisp as detail as you would on a higher-end phone this phone is definitely in the budget end of the range it'll cost about 150 150 pounds that's the lower starting end but of course prices will vary and fluctuate for market to market now the phone comes in this bright green color but it comes in other shades as well so you've got a variety to choose from on the front you've got the single navigation button you can long press to get back home and short press to go back to previous screen there are several screens on the interface here and you scroll vertically to access your apps to your recents get your news feed navigation is pretty simple on the back we've got a 5 megapixel camera with flash I thought photo quality was okay in some circumstances but definitely not very clear sharp still usable and there's a 2-megapixel front-facing camera same story there inside there's a 1 gigahertz Qualcomm Snapdragon s4 processor found the phone to be a little bit sluggish a dual sim as well storage capacity is pretty small at four gigabytes but there is an expandable option to up to 32 gigabytes so if you are looking for a budget experience and you don't mind the kind of outdated looking interface then the hardware is really good and I would definitely recommend the XL for that however if you're looking for something that's pure Android this is not the phone for you keep looking I'm Jessica doll court for CNN you can read our full review at cnet com