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Microsoft is in the advanced stages of closing its acquisition of Nokia’s handset business, but in the meantime Nokia is reportedly working on Android devices. How does Microsoft feel about that? “They’ll do some things we’re excited about, and some things we’re less excited about,” said senior executive Joe Belfiore, to a room of chuckling journalists and analysts.

“We have a terrific engineering relationship with Nokia,” he noted. “We’ve done a bunch of excellent collaboration [on] products…We’re proud of the work we do together.”

Nevertheless, as many have rumored, bolstered by some apparently leaked images (such as the ones here), Nokia has also been spinning other plates, with the WSJ reporting that the so-called Normandy device coming as soon as later this month.

Why? As Natasha pointed out the other day, this wouldn’t be an official Android device but a forked version, along the lines of what Amazon and many Asian handset makers have created. The idea here would be that it could use the device to target specifically lower-end users who are not reachable at the lowest price points of Nokia’s Lumia devices, but are looking for a “smarter” device than the Asha line from Nokia. The handset, the WSJ reports, has been in the works from before the deal with Microsoft was set, and points to how, with with many engineers and others leaving Nokia through layoffs, there are still some wildcards in the pack.

Image: Evleaks

It was not too long ago when Vietnam’s largest online retailer listed the unannounced Nokia Normandy on its website, where they mentioned that this upcoming device will run on Android 4.4 KitKat as the operating system of choice, powered by a dual-core 1GHz Snapdragon processor, and boasts of support for Google Play, Google Now and a slew of the other Google services. @evleaks has revealed in a tweet that seems to depict the Nokia Normandy as the Nokia X, where it will allegedly arrive in half a dozen colors.

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Nokia Normandy (Nokia X) To Arrive In Half A Dozen Colors (Rumor) original content from Ubergizmo.

We did get a glimpse of the Nokia “Normandy” just yesterday, but it seemed that there is more than meets the eye. After all, the leaked image yesterday featured the alleged device that lay on a wooden table, but this time around, here is the Android-powered smartphone that will actually depict the Android app launcher’s user interface for the very same device itself. Of course, there are many questions that can be raised, including the legitimacy of such a screenshot considering how it could very well be nothing but a placeholder. After all, the alleged leaked user interface does look rather primitive, and would not gain that much traction in this day and age, don’t you think so?

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Nokia Normandy User Interface Spotted original content from Ubergizmo.

It’s never too early to get your child into video games. You could seat them beside you as you play, dress them up like your favorite video game characters, even create flash cards that teach them about games and heroes. Another cool way is to build them an awesome stroller like this one here.

This Mass Effect baby stroller was recently spotted at GeekGirlCon ’13 and needless to say, this kid is the most popular on the playground. That stroller looks just like the Normandy and I bet it even goes faster than a normal stroller.

Any video game fan with a little kid wishes they had this to push their baby around in.

[via Nerd Approved]