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€99 Nokia X2 Smartphone

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  • #2
    ted1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,656 ✭✭✭✭ted1


    danjo-xx wrote: »
    This looks like a bargain and its sim free available in a months time. RRP €99
    http://www.irishtimes.com/business/sectors/technology/microsoft-unveils-new-99-nokia-x2-smartphone-1.1843354

    Where did it say sim free ?


  • #3
    danjo-xx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,393 ✭✭✭danjo-xx


    ted1 wrote: »
    Where did it say sim free ?

    In the Star newspaper today.


  • #4
    ted1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,656 ✭✭✭✭ted1


    danjo-xx wrote: »
    In the Star newspaper today.

    Oh then its true


  • #5
    balfe1990
    Registered Users Posts: 507 ✭✭✭balfe1990


    To be honest, this is just a feeder (into Microsoft's Windows Phone) phone that is marketed towards people who want to buy a smartphone for the first time.

    It's designed to look and feel like Windows Phone whilst actually being Android. It contains all of MS's services too, so the idea is when said person goes to buy their second smartphone, they'll be so familiar with the design and ecosystem, they'll buy into Windows Phone. It looks like a decent device and it's affordable too, but I think you may as well go the whole hog and buy a Lumia 625 or Lumia 520 for cheaper.


  • #6
    corcaigh07
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,460 ✭✭✭corcaigh07


    You could suggest every phone is a 'feeder' phone-ie my Moto G is a feeder phone for Android, my girlfriend's iphone is a feeder for more iphones.

    Seems like a nice phone but I would have worries about the UI, Nokia X platform 2.0 UI. Lots of bloatware attached too I'd say.


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  • #7
    corcaigh07
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,460 ✭✭✭corcaigh07


    better link for spec:

    http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_x2_dual_sim-6383.php


  • #8
    balfe1990
    Registered Users Posts: 507 ✭✭✭balfe1990


    corcaigh07 wrote: »
    You could suggest every phone is a 'feeder' phone-ie my Moto G is a feeder phone for Android, my girlfriend's iphone is a feeder for more iphones.

    Seems like a nice phone but I would have worries about the UI, Nokia X platform 2.0 UI. Lots of bloatware attached too I'd say.
    What I mean to say is that theyre totally different OSes.

    Its running a forked version of Android, and hopes to get you hooked on the design and services so you'll choose an actual Windows Phone next time. A kind of Trojan horse if you will


  • #9
    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,648 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    I'm not sure if thats the really the intent. I would say its a feature phone based on a version of android.


  • #10
    BrookieD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,705 ✭✭✭BrookieD


    i saw that on the link below also... looks like a bargin

    http://gaelictech.ie/?p=617


  • #11
    jimmynokia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,467 ✭✭✭jimmynokia


    The X2 is a gateway product,like the X XL and X+ to tie people into the windows ecosystem,this release is rather strange so soon after the previous X series and has effectively killed off the last three X series one range,plus they will not get the X 2.0 software so once again owners of those models have been shafted good and proper.

    It wont be sim free,in stores, and the price will not be 99 euro either if and when it hits ireland,it will be interesting to see what networks will take this on board.


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  • #12
    neto
    Registered Users Posts: 40 ✭neto


    X2 now available for pre-order on Expansys.ie


  • #13
    castle2012
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,014 ✭✭✭castle2012


    Order now on factorychoice.ie €89.00, what is the spec like ?


  • #14
    neto
    Registered Users Posts: 40 ✭neto


    castle2012 wrote: »
    Order now on factorychoice.ie €89.00, what is the spec like ?
    factorychoice sells nokia x not x2


  • #15
    zom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,908 ✭✭✭zom


    corcaigh07 wrote: »
    better link for spec:

    http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_x2_dual_sim-6383.php


    Is it really IPS screen?


  • #16
    tv3tg4
    Registered Users Posts: 533 ✭✭✭tv3tg4


    Looks like a decent enough phone.

    Do ye think that it will be available in Ireland?


  • #17
    Francie Barrett
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,774 ✭✭✭✭Francie Barrett


    Microsoft just killed off the Nokia X line of phones today - http://www.gsmarena.com/microsoft_kills_nokia_x_android_phones_lays_off_18000_people-news-9060.php

    I wouldn't go near this.


  • #18
    DjFlin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭DjFlin


    Francie Barrett wrote: »
    Microsoft just killed off the Nokia X line of phones today - http://www.gsmarena.com/microsoft_kills_nokia_x_android_phones_lays_off_18000_people-news-9060.php

    I wouldn't go near this.

    Jesus. Those things died faster than the Kin...


  • #19
    jimmynokia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,467 ✭✭✭jimmynokia


    Hardly, may not even see the light of day after today's news


  • #20
    tv3tg4
    Registered Users Posts: 533 ✭✭✭tv3tg4


    Any sign of this phone?


  • #21
    jimmynokia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,467 ✭✭✭jimmynokia


    tv3tg4 wrote: »
    Any sign of this phone?
    Nope its unclear atm if we will even see it.


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  • #22
    whirlpool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭whirlpool


    jimmynokia wrote: »
    Nope its unclear atm if we will even see it.

    And how would you know? What are you, like, Joe Nokia or something?


  • #23
    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,648 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    They've said its cancelled.

    Even if it was to be sold. They've just killed most Peoples interest in it. What are you hoping for.


  • #24
    kn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,867 ✭✭✭kn


    Wow. Nokia were flying high as the leading global mobile technology company a little over 5 years ago and now they have as good as disappeared without a whimper!


  • #25
    jimmynokia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,467 ✭✭✭jimmynokia


    whirlpool wrote: »
    And how would you know? What are you, like, Joe Nokia or something?

    Stupid comment imo.


  • #26
    whirlpool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭whirlpool


    jimmynokia wrote: »
    Stupid comment imo.

    Jeeze. It was just a joke. You're not Joe Nokia, you're Jimmy Nok... oh never mind.


  • #27
    jimmynokia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,467 ✭✭✭jimmynokia


    whirlpool wrote: »
    Jeeze. It was just a joke. You're not Joe Nokia, you're Jimmy Nok... oh never mind.
    Duh lol. Hahaha...


  • #28
    jimmynokia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,467 ✭✭✭jimmynokia


    castle2012 wrote: »
    Order now on factorychoice.ie €89.00, what is the spec like ?

    steer clear of them


  • #29
    marklazarcovic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,224 ✭✭✭marklazarcovic


    sold out,crap


  • #30
    jimmynokia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,467 ✭✭✭jimmynokia


    marklazarcovic wrote: »
    sold out,crap

    They never had them to begin with.


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  • #31
    neto
    Registered Users Posts: 40 ✭neto


    X2 is now available on Nokia Store for Russia for 5,990 rubles (€125). The phone also sells in Pakistan for 15,490 rupee (€117).


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