As Nokia X platform is out in the world, it would be interesting to find out just how many Android applications are available in Nokia X app store on what is basically Day 1.
When we checked the Editor's Choice section and Top Free section on the Google Play Store and compared it with apps available on Nokia's store, we found that the X phones use an interesting setup – there’s Nokia’s app store, but there are several others preinstalled too.
If an app isn't available in Nokia’s store, but is available in one of the others, it will show up in the search results. Just tap on it and the other app store will launch and repeat the search. We spotted 4-5 different app stores in our searches. Apps marked with a * are from other app stores.
As it can be seen that the list of missing apps is longer, but those are mostly games, the only app we really miss is Nova Launcher (though you probably might be able to side-load that directly). At least the apps that are there cover the basic social networking apps (Facebook and Twitter) and the popular chat apps (WhatsApp, Skype, Line, even Telegram). Popular keyboard replacements SwiftKey and Swype are also available.
The Nokia X (X+ and XL too) will have Instagram on Day 1. Using Android has advantages after all, right? More importantly, this seemingly confirms Nokia’s claim that most apps are compatible with its brand of Android (the missing apps may be missing because they are not uploaded to the alternative app stores, not that they’re incompatible).
By the way, Nokia has a cool site to help developers test if their app is compatible with Nokia X – it's literally just drag and drop.
via gsmarena blogs
If an app isn't available in Nokia’s store, but is available in one of the others, it will show up in the search results. Just tap on it and the other app store will launch and repeat the search. We spotted 4-5 different app stores in our searches. Apps marked with a * are from other app stores.
The Nokia X (X+ and XL too) will have Instagram on Day 1. Using Android has advantages after all, right? More importantly, this seemingly confirms Nokia’s claim that most apps are compatible with its brand of Android (the missing apps may be missing because they are not uploaded to the alternative app stores, not that they’re incompatible).
By the way, Nokia has a cool site to help developers test if their app is compatible with Nokia X – it's literally just drag and drop.
via gsmarena blogs
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