Nokia Normandy’s Android UI leaks, leaves us wanting the unattainable


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The Nokia Android phone might be like the unobtanium from Pandora but we keep seeing more and more of it these days. Purported images of the Nokia Android Phone have leaked out in the form of UI screenshots, pasted on the infamous Normandy device. Looking very much like a recent Asha phone, the Nokia Normandy shows off its calling UI Viber, the lockscreen and the Skype app, which is very similar to the one on Android. The project is supposedly shelved, as this was rumoured to be a skunkworks thing inside Nokia headed by designer Peter Skillman, who now heads Here, the part that was not bought out by Microsoft during the acquisition. So yet again, we are left wanting for this unattainable device.

@evleaks had been posting several images of the Nokia Normandy over the past few weeks and it seems like the device is just a big Asha device that was all set to take on the low end Android competition. The UI you see above, for the first time ever, seems to be a mix of the current Asha UI but will less rounded UI elements. @evleaks also notes that there are no virtual buttons here, which means that there might be, in the actual UI, only not pictured above.

In the end, we are being shown something that’s probably not going to make it into the market, so lets see what the future of Asha is like, after the acquisition.

Source evleaks


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