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First things first: no, Microsoft is not ditching Windows Phone and switching to Android. Curiously, however, the brand new smartphone vendor apparently does have plans to develop and sell a line of Android-powered smartphones that will be offered alongside its newly acquired Windows Phone lineup from Nokia. According to an exclusive report from BGR sister site BGR India, Microsoft is currently developing a next-generation series of Android phones. The handsets will succeed the Nokia X Android phones that Nokia released earlier this year. Nokia’s Android line of smartphones was thought to be a secret weapon the company used to force the sale of its phone business to Microsoft. The phones then launched unexpectedly, however, and Microsoft did not discontinue them when it