Nokia has introduced its first Android-based mobile handsets, the Nokia X series, at the Mobile World Congress under the tagline "connecting the next billion to the Internet." The Nokia X, Nokia X+, and Nokia XL devices are priced between $122 and $150.

"Nokia has connected billions of people around the world, and today we demonstrated how our portfolio is designed to connect the next billion people to great experiences," stated Stephen Elop, Nokia's EVP of devices and services.

But if Nokia's ultimate goal is going after the next billion users, as Elop said, the next obstacle for the Android-based Nokia X, priced at $122, is competing against a wave of $25 smartphones scheduled for launch this year on Firefox.

Nokia's push for Android might be too little too late, and it could end up short-lived.

The Nokia X, Nokia X+ and Nokia XL all run on the Qualcomm Snapdragon dual-core processor. They support Dual SIM, allowing users to switch SIM cards to get better tariffs, a critical feature for many who live in countries such as India and China.

The Nokia X features a 4in IPS capacitive display, a 3MP camera and 512MB RAM. Nokia will roll them out immediately in Asia-Pacific, Europe, India, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa.

The Finnish company said the Nokia X+, also with a 4in screen, is designed for "multimedia enthusiasts, who can enjoy even more games, music, photos and video," due to more memory (768MB RAM) and storage.

The Nokia XL comes with a 5in display, a 2MP front-facing camera (which Nokia calls "ideal for Skype video calls"), and a 5MP rear-facing, autofocus camera with flash.

The Nokia X+ and Nokia XL are scheduled for launch starting early in Q2 and will be priced at $136 and $150, respectively.

Skepticism abounds as to how much push Microsoft actually will give to the Nokia X series once the sale of Nokia's handset division to Microsoft for $7.2 billion is complete in a few weeks.

It's been widely reported that, the day before Nokia unveiled the phones at a press conference at the Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona, Joe Belfiore, who runs Microsoft's Windows Phone division, said of Nokia: "There are some things they do that we are excited about, and other things that we are not so excited about."

By: DocMemory
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