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today marks the end of an era as Nokia's devices and services group comes under the ownership of Microsoft but before that happened Nokia was able to wrap up a project it had been working on for quite some time something a lot of people have been asking for for literally years an Android phone and while it wasn't exactly everything everyone was expecting we're still very excited to take a look at it and then give it away but first we've got to unbox it so let's get to it I'm Michael Fisher this is PocketNow and this is our unboxing of the Nokia X yes you heard us right folks and yes this video is titled appropriately we are giving away this nokia X when our coverage is complete and if you want to enter for your chance to win be sure and visit pocketnow.com on Monday April 28th we will post all the official rules regulations and so on we also want to thank Negri electronics for making this giveaway possible this device comes from them and if you want a leg up in the giveaway we'll let you in on a little secret follow Negra electronics on Twitter as that'll be one of the requirements for winning the giveaway finally if you've got no time for a contest you just want to buy a Nokia X right now as soon as you get done with this unboxing you're so excited you need to pick one up visit Negri electronics they're linked in the description down below so this is the retail packaging it's a variation on the packaging we're used to seeing on Symbian devices and such as you can see you get a little sneak peek at the UI here but no Google Play service is called out obviously because this is an Android open source project derived build spectra on the back we took a look at before but let's just go ahead and get to the meat of the matter here I don't want to look at the outside of the box anymore let's see what this Nokia Android phone looks like I know sticklers in the comments will already be annoyed with me for calling it a Nokia Android phone it's really no such thing in spirit but technically speaking this new OS is based on Android this phone is built to be affordable as are its siblings the Nokia X plus and the XL this is just the standard X here's some literature what is this oh yeah so we're just calling out bbm here messaging services that you can use with this device little instruction manual there and bundled in the box a power adapter headphones which frankly I'm very surprised to see you don't see headphones included on many flagship devices interesting to see them on a phone built to be affordable and the battery believe this is 1500 million powers it is indeed five point five five watt hours for those of you interested in that type of measurement now that we have the packaging out of the way we'll go ahead and pull the phone from its protective pouch put that aside along with the oh I see this is a screen protector of sorts that looks to have been removed and then reapplied but that's okay we'll get the mic in a position for a nice close-up and then peel that right off well we've had smoother oh folks it is our lucky day that was just a decoy the first ever pocket now double screen protector peel you know it's an exciting Friday night when this ish is happening quiet please now that's a new phone feel before we get to the hardware tour I want to call out the sticker on the back cover that is calling out the phone's dual-sim capabilities another indication of just what type of markets this phone is built for but always very exciting to try a phone not built for North America in the North American market so there's gonna be a lot of fun and fortunately that sticker also tells us how to remove the back cover on this device we're gonna plant our fingers here just kind of pop the back cover right off here we went for the green one I wanted to unbox this outdoors because you know hey this is a green pad there's a green phone obviously we could be making a prettier video here but sadly the pocket my weekly podcast took a little long to edit today and the pocket now a weekly podcast is also where we will be announcing the winner of the giveaway once again that giveaway those details will be posted on Monday popping this battery in here once again 1500 milliamp hours have put this back on tell you the dimensions of the phone one hundred and fifteen millimeters tall 63 millimeters wide ten point four millimeters in thickness to give you some perspective and to inject some added color into the shot this is the iPhone 5c right next to it I'm go ahead and pop these down and directly adjacent to it we'll also throw the Moto X but it doesn't exactly seem right to have a size comparison without a Nokia product so we'll substitute that iPhone there with the Nokia 929 aka the Nokia icons you can tell the Lumia icon as you can tell this device quite small quite a bit smaller than any flagship phone just a 4-inch display so this casing can be nice and manageable let's see if we can go ahead and power it on here I've already got this screen all messed up look at me I'm gross I promise it's not me it's just just just me being me just me being a human Moto X get out of the way this display resolution is 800 by 480 the nokia chime especially poignant on this day that the transfer of ownership occurred with the device in services unit going under Microsoft pixels on C 233 PPI LCD as we said before I believe we also said as a snapdragon s4 1 gigahertz and there we go English yes go ahead and do that we'll do initial setup and it is always nice to see a little tutorial when you have a new user interface being introduced so swipe from the left edge or right edge to unlock the phone thank you for that swipe from the top to control your connections or from the bottom 4 options very cool wow this is gonna be fun I love learning new interfaces I really do drag down to start a search very cool as well please wait and the phone will provision itself no SIM card in there and there's our home screen by the way the RAM driving this experience 512 Meg's four gigs of on-board storage but there is provision for an expandable memory card in the microSD format so that's awesome Wow this phone loaded with frankly a lot more I don't wanna say bloat because this is kind of an entirely different category but many more pre-installed apps then I expected unless this is some kind of thing where you tap and it takes you to a download link in the store or something like that decliner except they're different now it looks this looks to be yeah no these have to look to already be installed so that's very cool obviously there's gonna be a big learning curve here I can tell you just straight up there's no mistaking holding a Nokia phone I mean these corners are sharp once again we'll bring the the icon in just to show you this common design lineage really really feels interesting and just to show you how closely this new UI resembles Windows Phone we showed you this from MWC or wherever this was so this should be no surprise to you but still really nice to get some hands-on time with it and if I don't stop talking soon this is gonna be the world's longest unboxing so I think we're gonna go ahead and cut this off right now I'm gonna spend the weekend with this green machine one final thank you to Negri electronic for providing this review slash giveaway unit one final reminder to visit the link in the description if you want one of your own and visit pocket now on Monday for all the giveaway details until next time there's been Michael Fisher with PocketNow thanks for watching we'll talk real soon you