14 DAY TRIAL // Nokia X, the first smartphone from the Finnish mobile phone maker to have arrived on the market with Google’s Android operating system loaded on top, is now even easier to tweak than it was before.
The handset, made official with a forked version of the mobile OS, one that does not feature the usual set of Google services, has just received custom recoveries, which suggests that ROMs for the device might be coming soon as well.
Both TWRP and CWM have been ported to the device by an XDA-Developers Forum user, though they are unofficial ports for the time being, and the latter is also said to be quite buggy.
Should custom Android ROMs be developed for the mobile phone, users will be able to easily flash them, especially if using the TWRP port, which is said to be working just fine.
The availability of custom ROMs on the handset also means that its users will be able to tap into the features that Google services can deliver, given that none of these is available on Nokia X right from the start.
For those out of the loop, we should note that Nokia has decided to load its own set of applications and services on the device instead, such as Nokia Store, Bing, HERE Maps, and others more.
Those who would like to learn more on the unofficial TWRP port for Nokia X should head over to this thread in the XDA-Developers Forum. The CWM port can be seen detailed in this topic.