If any mobile supplier released an Android mobile phone with the following specifications one year ago: 4.0 inches screen, dual-core, 512MB RAM, 3MP camera and with price of 100USD. It’s very natural that the customers will believe that such device will be eliminated from the market for sure, or nobody will buy it at all.
However, on the MWC2014 in Barcelona, the Smartphone Nokia X was released without bullshits. From the specifications we can see it’s a backward device for sure. Still, within a month it has already received millions of orders around the world. It’s really unbelievable that, in an era that flood with Smartphone of quad-core or even octa-core, such lower spec Smartphone can achieve success.
Evaluate from the hardware configuration, Nokia X is apparently backward, however, there are some new design on the appearance and the UI. It’s not about mobile skins that change the appearance; instead, it’s the change of buttons on the front side. Nokia X shows us, the android phone do not have to equip with 3 buttons, also it’s not necessary that each phone must have a home button.
For the operating system of Nokia X, there are creative designs in the different Android system. The customers are curious to experience the creative system. Even though it is the Android system on Nokia X, however, the design of the UI used the WP8 system for reference. You could see that the unlock interface is quite similar with the one on WP8. Also, there is no wallpaper on Nokia X. Only the lock screen interface is possible to input custom image. Once enter the main screen, it will directly display the big icons of APP.
The icons can drag and scaling freely, same with the icons in WP8. Swipe left on screen, it will enter the task management interface, however, unlike the task manager, here you could not end any task or clear up memory, instead, you could only look over the recent record of the APP.
Compare with the mobile phones of the same configuration, Nokia X runs more smoothly. However, since the lower hardware configuration, it will get stuck from time to time while running large software.
The mobile skins or mobile phone cases can provide a good protection and decoration for the Nokia X. Unlike the iPhone accessories, there are plenty iPhone cases to choose from. The iPhone cases are easy to buy from EBay or Amazon. For the Nokia X, the custom mobile phone skins will be a good choice, which can make it even unique as a different Android device.