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Three years after it announced a switch to Windows Phone, Nokia launched a family of Android-based phones today at Mobile World Congress 2014. Nokia's new X family of mobes... The first three devices revealed today at Mobile World Congress adopt the same strategy Amazon has with Android: use the open-source base and develop …

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  1. RyokuMas

    Wheat from chaff...

    Well, I guess this will at least sort out the true supporters of open source from the Google FUD spreaders...

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    1. dogged
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      Re: Wheat from chaff...

      That's just crazy talk.

      The google employees will continue to pour scorn on these because they're not sending all your data to Google and the F/OSS brigade* will pour scorn on these because they'll assume that they send all your data to Microsoft.

      Try it for yourself - mention how you can individually change an app's separate permissions in WP8 so that you withold data from Redmond if you so choose and watch the egg-throwing.

      *This makes me very sad because I personally use, love and occasionally contribute to open source software on several platforms. But these people make Stallman look compassionately moderate.

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  2. Lost in Cyberspace

    It's a ploy

    To make sure Microsoft hurry the fuck up and get on with the deal

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  3. Stoke the atom furnaces

    I told Nokia, via the comments section of the TheRegister, that they should release an Android Phone years ago, but would they listen ?

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  5. Charlie Clark Silver badge
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    The gateway drug

    And this will help them sell Windows Phone because…?

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  6. cheveron

    When can I get one?

    Swype clone plus Nokia maps. I'm sold.

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