Nokia has been famously bypassed Google's Android mobile software for Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system, yet the move did not work out so well for the Microsoft or even for Nokia. At that point, Nokia brand was grabbed last year by HMD Global, which has a digital column that gained the revelation of its new Android-powered Nokia smartphones.

At the press event at Mobile World Congress on Sunday, according to CNET, HMD revealed the three Nokia-branded, Google-powered phones, the Nokia 3, 5, and 6. HMD has been limited as what it can do with Android, particularly as it is has signed up to Google Play Services to use.

There will be no progression, changes, bloatware, and additions, instead, Nokia Android handsets will come with the purest type of Android by using Google Play services. Google uses the Android features to test out before they launch in full. Then again, Nokia handsets will just get the full and completed version of these features.

Forbes added that HMD has committed to give monthly security updates from Google over a Wi-Fi connection and to give the feature updates to the Android OS for two years from the day the client bought it. The kind of software inside the handset may change throughout the decades, however, the client support will still remain the same, as HMD swore to continue that level of support.

For the hardcore fan of Android will probably be satisfied to see more phones available that guarantee a customary software, yet that puts Nokia into a somewhat awkward position of being in direct rivalry with its new closest friend. If Google needs to continue to grow in its hardware business, then Pixel-versus-Nokia rivalry could eventually push into frenemies territory, but given that HMD is simply getting started on its way to take Nokia back to the relevancy, maybe their relationship has a lot of room to grow.

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