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Foxconn Already Produced 10,000 Nokia Android Phones

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Recently we learned that Nokia was working on Android phones, at the very least as an insurance against Microsoft, but it seems it may have been more than that, because it seems Nokia already went ahead with ordering 10,000 units for their Android phone from Foxconn. Why would they do that, if they didn’t intend to actually launch it and sell it? However, if you were hoping for high-end Android device from Nokia, then you’ll be disappointed, because it seems that it was intended to replace their Asha line of smartphones instead. For all Microsft’s fans comments that “WP is faster” on lower-end hardware, it’s Android that has been on the lowest end hardware so far, working even on 600 Mhz ARM11 (ARMv6) processors. But apparently Nokia intended to use a Snapdragon 200 processor, which includes a 1.4 Ghz CPU (Cortex A5), which is significantly faster than that. Either way, I was afraid that even if Nokia decides to go Android, they’d probably use it as an afterthought, instead of putting