Nokia Partners With Airtel to Offer Free Android App Download

Nokia has recently partnered with Airtel to offer six months of free download of Android applications on its newly launched Nokia XL phone.

"To help our consumers experience these apps, we are offering free downloads on Airtel from the Nokia Store and several popular third-party apps stores," Nokia India Sales Director Marketing Viral Oza, said in a release here today.

The plan allows up to 500 MB of free usage through which consumers can download their favorite apps from the Nokia Store and the 1Mobile store. This offer is available to consumers with a fair usage policy of up to 500 MB per month.

On the Nokia XL, consumers can access and download a wide array of Android apps, which can be side loaded as well as downloaded from Nokia's own store and several popular third- party app stores.

Nokia had launched the Nokia XL Dual SIM Android smartphone at the price of Rs. 11,489 in India. It runs the Nokia X software platform (version 1.0), which is based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) Which means the OS is based on Android Jelly Bean OS.

If you are not aware of the specs of the handset, the Nokia XL Dual SIM comes with a 5-inch LCD display with WVGA (480x800 pixels) resolution, and offers a pixel density of 187ppi. It is powered by a 1GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor coupled with 768MB of RAM. The Nokia XL Dual SIM comes with 4GB of inbuilt storage and supports expandable storage up to 32GB via microSD card. Other specs include a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash and also houses a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. The smartphone packs a 2000mAh battery which is rated to deliver up to 16 hours of talk time and up to 720 hours of standby time.

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With inputs from PTI