If you have to go, you might as well go out with a bang. Nokia made waves and ruffles feathers on Monday morning when it unveiled not one but three new smartphones that are powered by Google’s Android operating system. The mobile software on the Nokia X, Nokia X+ and Nokia XL is barely recognizable as Android, with a heavily modified tile-based user interface that resembles Windows Phone. But if you ask executives at Microsoft, they’ll tell you… it’s Android. Microsoft and Nokia are set to complete a deal next month that will see Nokia’s devices and services business transferred over to Microsoft for about $5 billion. Microsoft will also pay another $2.2 billion license Nokia’s many related patents for
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