{"provider_url": "https://readwrite.com", "description": "Or, how $7.2 billion prevented a fratricidal bloodbath.", "embeds": [], "safe": true, "provider_display": "readwrite.com", "related": [], "favicon_url": "https://readwrite.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/cropped-readwrite-favicon-192x192.png", "authors": [{"url": null, "name": "readwrite"}], "images": [{"url": "https://readwrite.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/MTIyMzA0MTYxNDIwMTc2NjY1.jpg", "width": 500, "size": 12620, "caption": null, "height": 283}, {"caption": null, "url": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/?s=80&d=mm&r=g", "height": 80, "width": 80, "entropy": 1.00716155823, "size": 1262}, {"caption": null, "url": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/?s=42&d=mm&r=g", "height": 42, "width": 42, "entropy": 1.2579070581514342, "size": 997}], "cache_age": 86400, "language": "en", "app_links": [], "original_url": "http://readwrite.com/2013/09/13/nokia-android-microsoft-surface-phone", "url": "https://readwrite.com/nokia-android-microsoft-surface-phone/", "media": {}, "title": "Nokia Android Phone Was Real-As Was A Microsoft Surface Phone", "offset": null, "lead": null, "content": "<div>\n<p><figure> <img src=\"https://readwrite.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/MTIyMzA0MTYxNDIwMTc2NjY1.jpg\"></figure></p>\n<p>Microsoft and Nokia-now the tightest of friends, following <a href=\"https://readwrite.com/2013/09/03/microsoft-buys-nokia-for-72-billion\">Microsoft's $7.2 billion bid</a> for the phone maker's devices and services arm-could well have had it in for each other had things gone otherwise. Nokia, it turns out, already had Android running on its Lumia smartphones as an experiment (says <a href=\"http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/13/behind-microsoft-deal-the-specter-of-a-nokia-android-phone\">the New York Times</a>), while Microsoft was testing its own smartphone based on its Surface tablet (says <a href=\"http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/13/4728184/microsoft-surface-phone-testing-while-nokia-experimented-with-android\">the Verge</a>).</p>\n<p>Alas for the fratricidal possibilities that now we'll never see.</p>\n</div>", "entities": [], "favicon_colors": [{"color": [203, 56, 52], "weight": 0.571044921875}, {"color": [0, 0, 0], "weight": 0.2041015625}, {"color": [177, 174, 175], "weight": 0.132080078125}, {"color": [249, 249, 249], "weight": 0.0927734375}], "keywords": [], "published": 1379116269000, "provider_name": "ReadWrite", "type": "html"}