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Nokia teamed up with Airtel to Offer free Download of Apps for Nokia XL

Here is a good news for all the Nokia XL owners. In order to bewitch its customers, Nokia has teamed up with India's leading telecom company Bharti Airtel to offer free apps for all the existing as well as on-sale XL smartphones. This offer can be utilized by the user within six months of purchasing the smartphone. Under this plan, they will be allowed to download applications for their smartphone upto 500MB from Nokia Store and other third party App Store including 1Mobile Store.

Nokia XL is amongst the latest of its products that were launched in May, earlier this year. There were total three mobiles that were launched in the recent past that includes Nokia X, X+ and XL. In the press release, Nokia India Sales Director Marketing, Viral Oza reported that "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".

While this device runs on the Android open source platform, not all traits of Android are made available in this phone. As a result, this phone lacks Google Play Services. In order to fulfil the issue, Nokia developed their own Android store named as "Nokia Store" and allowed its users to freely download apps from their store or other third party stores upto a limit of 500MB. After that, normal data charges will be implemented.