Nokia's first Android-based smartphone Nokia X, which was launched in the Indian market last month, has now surprisingly received a mild price cut. The device which was initially launched at the MOP of Rs 8,599 is now available at the reduced price of Rs. 7,729 and can be bought from the company's official site.

The Nokia X comes in Black, Green, Cyan, Yellow, Red and White color variants. It comes packed with a 4-inch WVGA display offering a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels. It is powered by a 1GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Processor coupled with 512MB of RAM. It has 4GB internal storage and the ability to take in microSD cards up to 32GB in capacity.

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While the Nokia X isn’t exactly the lust-inducing, flagship-caliber device that we were all hoping for from the Finnish OEM’s entrance into the Android world, the device and its software are still rather intriguing.

In addition to making the Nokia X more functional by shoehorning external development onto the device, we’ve also seen porting efforts to bring some of the Nokia X’s software to other devices. This began withporting the Nokia Store to other devices, and we later saw the Nokia X ROM running on the HTC HD2… well, sort of. Now thanks to the efforts of XDA Senior Member xperiaz2, you can enjoy the Nokia X’s camera software on nearly any device running Jelly Bean or later.

As you can see in the screenshots to your right, the Nokia X camera software has some pretty nifty settings. These include ISO sensitivity control, the ability to display a live intensity histogram, configurable noise detection, redeye reduction, anti-banding, and more. All’s not perfect with the camera app, however, as the resultant pictures are stored with very high compression. Additionally, the port seems to have mixed results when running on other devices. For example, some have stated that while the actual camera functionality works fine, it causes a Gallery force close after recording a video.

If you want a taste of the Nokia X camera experience on your own device, head over to theported app thread and give this a go.

Update: It seems as if XDA Senior Member opssemnik has ported an even more functional version of the Nokia X camera to all 4.1+ devices. This version fixes many of the force closes that were encountered in the version above.

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