Is Nokia still working on an Android phone?

MANILA, Philippines - In 2011 Nokia adopted Windows Phone as the primary operating system for its line of smartphones. In September 2013, Microsoft purchased Nokia’s phone business, further cementing the Finnish-cellphone giant’s relationship with Windows Phone.

So how is an Android-flavored Lumia even possible?

Code-named Normandy, the project has had its fair share of leaks, many of them courtesy of reliable tipster @evleaks.The first one in November were of a red Lumia phone with a back-button, in the spot where the usual windows-home button is usually located.

Another leak last January 8 shows what looks like versions of Skype and Viber running on the phone. The same back buttons are present. Many believe this to be Nokia’s Android user interface.

Last January 13, Twitter account @picturepan2 posted this photo of a Nokia Normandy engineering prototype – showing a custom Chinese user interface on the same back-buttoned Lumia look-alike. The photo also shows two signal bars indicating the prototype is a dual-sim phone.

Nokia tested Android on Lumia phones before the Microsoft acquisition, but the leaks could very well be the next iteration of Nokia’s feature phone Asha line and not an Android Lumia phone. Nokia’s latest Asha phones all run on Nokia’s aging S4 platform and have a similar one back button layout. Nokia's Asha phones are also available in dual-sim variants.

Or it could mean that Nokia plans to move Asha away from S4 and adopt Android. But with Microsoft now in the picture, this would be a major disruption. One that could possibly solve Microsoft's Windows Phone woes and will most probably kill the feature phone.

What are your thoughts? Let us know in the comments below. - Rappler.com