Nokia makes Android smartphone despite Microsoft bid

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http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/XwYZqq3Ojf5PtAZvo8VEIg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/e17eccfcdf87fee31f40f405647bf56e14cc4d54.jpg (http://news.yahoo.com/nokia-makes-android-smartphone-despite-microsoft-bid-211745452.html)Nokia showed off Monday a new range of smartphones powered by Google's Android operating system, even as it is being taken over by Microsoft. The Finnish group unveiled three Nokia X smartphone models at the opening of the four-day World Mobile Congress in Barcelona, shunning Microsoft's Windows Phone to go with a competing Android-based system. The new smartphones use an "Android open-source platform" but are equipped with Nokia's own Lumia user interface and they point users to Microsoft services, not Google's, said Nokia France managing director Thierry Amarger.



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