No specific info on the number of sold units has been provided

Mar 25, 2014 01:51 GMT  ·  By

Nokia X, the first smartphone from Nokia to arrive on the market with Google’s Android operating system loaded on top, has become available for purchase in China today and it has already sold out, it seems.

In fact, JD.com, the retailer that managed to grab exclusivity of the smartphone in China, says that it has managed to sell out its entire initial Nokia X stock within minutes.

The handset became available for purchase in China at 10.00 AM on March 24, after reaching 10 million reservations at the end of the last week.

Those who pre-ordered the phone didn’t have to pay for it, but were provided with the possibility to grab it first.

No specific info on how many devices were sold today has been provided as of now, but JD.com had an offer for the first 10,000 users (consisting of a bonus pack of peripherals and services), which suggests that the actual sales number was higher than that, as WPCentral notes.

Furthermore, the retailer has unveiled that the next batch of Nokia X devices will become available for purchase for its customers on March 31.

Nokia X was already expected to prove a highly appealing device in China, considering the large number of pre-orders it has seen in about a week of pre-sales.

The handset has already been launched in other markets out there, and it should arrive in more of them in the coming months, though it remains to be seen whether it will prove as successful everywhere.

For those out of the loop, we should note that Nokia X was launched as an entry-level smartphone, with a 4-inch touchscreen display on the front, a dual-core processor inside, and 512MB of RAM.

Moreover, the handset features 4GB of internal memory, microSD memory card slot, and a 3MP camera on the back, while running under the Jelly Bean operating system.

In fact, this is not the full version of Android that comes pre-loaded on the smartphone, but a forked variant, which lacks the usual set of Google services.

Nokia chose to deliver its own set of applications and services to Nokia X users, including HERE Maps and Nokia Store. Various Microsoft services were also loaded on the smartphone right from the start, including Skype, Outlook.com, and SkyDrive.

According to analysts, Nokia might be able to sell around 14 million Nokia X devices during this year (Nokia X+ and Nokia XL included), and it appears that it started on the right foot, at least in China.