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Android this week: Nokia X no more; LG G3 Beat arrives; Android Wear reviewed
Source: gigaom.com - Saturday, July 19, 2014
Nokia’s grand Android experiment is over . In addition to thousands of former Nokia employees being let go from Microsoft this week, so too is Google’s operating system. Microsoft will surely keep developing its own apps and services for Android phones but it won’t be making the phones themselves. The Nokia X line started as a strategy to bring a Windows Phone user experience to low cost handsets , complete with Live Tile-like icons and Microsoft services. The idea was to get the Microsoft brand in the hands of customers in emerging markets where feature phones still rule the roost. Microsoft wants none of that and will instead work to get Windows Phone hardware costs down for these markets. LG is keeping Android around though, so don’t worry. This week, the company launched the G3 Beat , a “mini” version of its G3 flagship phone. Like most attempts at a smaller flagship, this is more of a cut-down handset as opposed to simply a smaller edition. The G3 Beat has a smaller — but still big — screen measuring it at 5-inches and gone is that pixel dense 2560 x 1440 resolution from its bigger brother: This display is 1280 x 720. LG opted to downgrade the Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 chip inside the G3 flagship all the way to a Snapdragon 400 in the new Beat. The device does keep, however, the laser auto-focus camera system. Inside you’ll also find a meager 8 GB of internal storage — expandable with a memory card — 1 GB of RAM, and Android 4
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