14 DAY TRIAL // Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia might be able to ship no less than 16 million Nokia X smartphones before the end of this year, a recent report from Strategy Analytics reads.
The new mobile phone was made official on Monday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, and it is the very first device from Nokia to be running under Google’s Android operating system.
Nokia X was not launched alone, as it is accompanied by Nokia X+ and Nokia XL models too, and the aforementioned prediction refers to the entire series of new devices, it seems.
“On the cusp of handing over its devices business to Microsoft, Nokia had one last card up its sleeve in the form of the Android-based Nokia X family of smartphones,” Scott Bicheno from Strategy Analytics notes in the report’s summary.
“Strategy Analytics forecasts 16 million of them will have shipped worldwide by the end of 2014 and looks at the key factors that will influence the success or failure of this bold initiative.”
For those out of the loop, we should note that Nokia X was made official with a 4-inch touchscreen display capable of delivering a WVGA (800 x 480 pixels) resolution, as well as with a 1GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor inside.
The smartphone was also unveiled with 512MB of RAM, 4GB of internal memory, a microSD memory card slot with support for up to 32GB additional storage, and a 1500 mAh battery that can deliver up to 10.5 hours of talk time or up to 17 days of standby time (the Dual-SIM version).
On the back, the smartphone packs a 3-megapixel camera with no flash. The handset runs under the Nokia X software platform, which is based on Android but does not include Google’s usual set of services.
As can be seen from the specs list above, the Nokia X smartphone is actually an entry-level device, and Nokia is determined to push it to the market as such.
The Finnish company has announced the immediate availability of the device in Eastern Europe, Asia, South America, and other markets, yet it does not plan on selling it in the United States, it seems.
However, Nokia’s main focus with the Nokia X family of devices is expected to be on emerging markets worldwide, including India, South America, and even China.
Considering the success that Lumia 520, the cheapest Windows Phone 8 smartphone from the company, has seen so far, it would certainly not come too much as a surprise Nokia indeed managed to ship over 16 million Nokia X devices in the next 10 months.