Priced at Rs8,500, Nokia X is a dual SIM handset featuring a four-inch touchscreen, dual core 1 GHz processor, 512 MB RAM and supports expandable memory up to 32GB. Photo: Bloomberg
New Delhi: Nokia 's much-awaited Android-based '
Nokia X ' smartphone will be available in India from 15 March, as the Finnish firm takes head-on the likes of
Samsung and
Micromax to grab a share of the burgeoning affordable smartphone market.
Priced at Rs8,500, Noxia X is a dual SIM handset featuring a four-inch touchscreen, dual core 1 GHz processor, 512 MB RAM and supports expandable memory up to 32GB. The smartphone is already available for pre-booking on electronics retailer The Mobile Store and lists the availability date as 15 March. It has a 3MP rear camera and is powered by Android Jellybean OS.
Smartphone sales in India grew almost three-fold to over 41.1 million in 2013, buoyed by a strong uptake of affordable devices made by local firms such as Micromax and
Karbonn , according to CyberMedia Research. Availability of affordable smartphones drove smartphone sales, while feature phones sales fell 0.2% in 2013.
Samsung led the smartphone market, followed by Micromax and Karbonn.
The Finnish firm, whose handset business was bought by
Microsoft last year, had unveiled its Nokia X range of smartphones—X, X+ and XL—powered by
Google 's Android operating system at the Mobile World Congress on 24 February.
It had said Nokia X will be rolled out (prices starting at €89 or about Rs7,500) in Asia-Pacific, Europe, India, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa.
The Nokia X+ and Nokia XL are expected to roll out in these markets starting early second quarter, priced at €99 (Rs8,300) and €109 (Rs9,200), respectively. The phones are not pure Android phones but run a variant of Android. Nokia has taken the open-source elements of Android and added elements of
Asha and Microsoft's Windows Phone to offer its users a different experience.
Nokia X has been launched in Malaysia for 399 Malaysian ringgit (about Rs7,500). PTI
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