Nokia is engaged in the development of Android phones. That claim newspaper The New York Times and techsite The Verge. Nokia had the phones by the end of 2014 likely to wish to release, but whether that is still continuing now Microsoft Nokia takes over, is unknown.
Nokia would be Android all running on a Lumia phone. Lumia’s running by default on Windows Phone. Also Nokia plans to be like Amazon is a fork of Android under the project name ‘Linux on Asha’, a reference to the line of cheap phones from Nokia. That says The Verge. According to The New York Times was the switch to Android, Nokia’s ‘Plan B’ for if the Lumia line would not save. Former director Stephen Elop denied consistently that a Plan B existed.
It is unlikely that Microsoft after the acquisition of Nokia’s plans with Android continues: Microsoft tries to understand to compete with Android. Microsoft would have known of the plans of Nokia with Android, but according to The Verge, it played no role in the decision to telefoondivisie of the Finnish manufacturer to buy.
Microsoft has also been busy with the testing of a own Surface Phone. That would be intended to be filling the gap that would fall if Nokia decided to stop using Windows Phone. The Finnish smartphonemaker currently sells more than four out of five Windows Phones, while other manufacturers hardly any devices to release and only tiny numbers of sales.
The deal between Microsoft and Nokia would three-year run and by the end of 2014 to expire, after which Nokia Android want for phones.
It is not the first time that Nokia is experimenting with Google’s mobile operating system. Before Nokia chose Windows Phone, it had Android already running on your own hardware. Nokia chose the beginning of 2011 for Windows Phone, a choice that Microsoft rewarded by each quarter of a quarter of a billion dollars to the Finnish manufacturer is about to make.