There was a huge buzz over Nokia’s first Android smartphone in the past few months. Nokia had finally given in and announced a smartphone based on Android, well AOSP (Android Open Source Project) to be precise. Now that the device has been officially launched, we dug in deep to see if the latest offering from Nokia is worth your money.
Nokia X has the capability to sideload apps, and also supports third party app stores. So we loaded it with some benchmarks and performance apps to see how well it performs.
We then compared the results with some handsets falling in a similar price-range:
| Nokia X | Karbonn Titanium S5 Plus | Nokia Lumia 525 | Xolo Q800S | |
| Antutu | 7007 | 16888 | 7523 | 13100 |
| Quadrant | 2962 | 5866 | NA | 7389 |
The results show that Nokia’s benchmark scores are actually quite low, and to be honest Nokia’s UI is very sluggish and keeps lagging like crazy once you install a bunch of apps on the device. We also checked out a memory testing app which showed that out of 512MB only 381MB of RAM is user accessible. On regular usage, out of the 381MB of RAM, 71MB was available even though the smartphone did not have a lot of apps running in the background.
Nokia has very strategically placed the Nokia X between its Asha line of feature phones and the Lumia range of Windows Phone smartphones. It is clear that they don’t want to disrupt the sales of either of the ranges. That being said, the much hyped Nokia X is not for the hardcore Android enthusiast, rather it is more of a large Asha phone with support for Android apps.