Nokia XL with 5-inch screen and Androd OS launched for RS. 11,489 in India

Nokia’s latest attempt of launching some affordable Android Smartphone comes to reality with Nokia X, Nokia X+ and NokiaXL. Although Nokia launched the Nokia X in India a while ago, but the bigger of the lot Nokia XL recently made it to the country.

The Nokia XL packs a 5-inch WVGA (480x800 p) IPS LCD display with a low 187 ppi density, while the Smartphone measures 141.4x77.1x10.9 mm and weighs a little heavy at 190 grams.

The Smartphone is powered by 1.2 GHz dual core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Play processor along with low category Adreno 203 GPU, the Smartphone comes with 768 MB of RAM coupled with 4 GB of internal memory which is expandable up to 32 GB with microSD card.

The camera features in Nokia XL consists of a 5 MP rear shooter with LED Flash along with a 2 MP of front camera unit. The rear camera can shoot only 480p videos @30 fps. The OS is Android 4.1 AOSP build (Android Open Source Project).

Nokia and Microsoft take the advantage of Open Source Project and replaced all core google apps from Nokia X series Smartphone with their own, meaning no Google Play Store, No Google Maps, No Gmail, Instead Amazon app store, Apptoid App store (pirated app market), Nokia Maps and so on.

Connectivity options include in this Smartphone are: 3G, Dual SIM, Bluetooth v3.0, microUSB v2.0, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n, Wi-Fi Hot spot, GPS with A-GPS, FM Radio, 3.5 mm Audio Jack.

The Nokia XL packs a large 2000 mAh Li-ion battery that according to Nokia, will deliver Stand-by time up to 720 hours, Talk time up to 16 hours in 2G, 13 hours in 3G and a music play back time of 37 hours.

The Nokia XL would be available in range of colors including Bright Green, Orange, Cyan, Yellow, Black, White color. The Smartphone is currently available in India for at price tag of Rs. 11,489.

Pretty high I would say, in this price bracket there are host of budget Pure Android Smartphones are present in the country, so it is very hard to think Nokia XL would be sold like hot cakes.

Anyway, there are still lots of people loves Nokia phones and many would love to get their hands on a Nokia branded Android Smartphone. So, keep visiting gadgetnews4u.in/ to find more gadget related news in India. Have a good day.

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