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"Microsoft has announced plans to shift direction for its budget smartphones, doing away with Android for its &amp;#039;Nokia X&amp;#039; platform and moving back towards Windows Phone. In an email that detailed plans to get rid of 18,000 employees within the company, CEO Satya Nadella also talked about &amp;quot;shifting&amp;quot; devices away from Android.  Nokia X handsets were designed to be very cheap and used a tweaked version of Android to try and bring better functionality to budget devices. This move will likely mean an end to Nokia and Microsoft&amp;#039;s Android plans, but it doesn&amp;#039;t mean Nokia will not continue to aggressively pursue the value-for-money mobile market. Having traditionally been very successful in the area, Nokia has of late seen its foothold in emerging markets fall due to competition from China and Korea. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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