Gadgetory

this is dan seifert with the verge we're here in Barcelona Spain looking at the new nokia X this is Nokia's actual Android phone that they're using in emerging markets to be able to try and capture the growing smartphone demand that's their respects you've got a 4-inch WVGA display it's a dual-core 1 gigahertz processor it's very much a low-end device but it's targeted for an emerging market and at 89 euro it's pretty low price as well the home screen here is actually very inspired by Nokia Lumia phones you can see it's got a very tile like interface you can do things like resize tiles and make them larger just like you can on Windows Phone and the Nokia Lumia devices it does support full android app compatibility many developers are said to be able to add their apps to the device without without making major changes to them here you can see facebook is running on it below that you've got a single back button that works as both back and home so if you open up an app and you can long press to go back to your home screen or you can just step one step back the other thing that Nokia is doing here is what they call their fast lane which is kind of like a combination of notifications and your recent apps and you can take a look at your upcoming appointments through it as well it's coming over from Nokia Asha line and it is it's Nokia's version of a notification center but there's no real app tray here all of your apps just kind of get installed down at the bottom as you install them there's no way to call up an alphabetical list or anything like that you can make folders let you again with other android phones and it does support full android widgets so you can install widgets on the home screen itself as far as this particular model this is the nokia X it's one of three there's also the X plus and the XL this one has a 3 megapixel fixed focus camera with an LED flash it's dual sim support so you can have multiple Sims running at the same time and it's got a removable battery in there too metra this interface is actually pretty responsive it's a it's more responsive than we expect when you're navigating the home screen but as you can see opening apps can be a little bit slow and a less responsive than you might expect from a more modern device so in addition to the nokia X nokia has announced the nokia XL which is a larger screen version of the device it steps up to a 5-inch display it's still wvga so it's still pretty low res for this day and age but it is a much larger display it's a bit nicer looking as well you've got better viewing angles the device itself is actually it feels thinner than the smaller model it's a little bit nicer to hold in your hand but it is quite large the other major improvement that they've done is they've upgraded the camera to a higher resolution and you've got an LED flash on there nokia will be selling the XL later this year in many markets across the world for about 109 euro