Satya Nadella, Microsoft's CEO, announced today in an email to employees that the company is preparing to layoff a total of 18,000 people within the next year.

Additionally, Stephen Elop, chief of Microsoft devices, also announced that the Nokia X Android project is over. Future Nokia X designs and products will be shifted to Windows Phone devices. He notes that the company will make the shift immediately, but support and sales for existing Nokia X products will remain.

There's no further information on what's the destiny of the recently announced Nokia X2. It's an existing product technically, so it should go on sale, but given the new developments Microsoft might as well cancel it. After all, we doubt anyone will be interested in buying into the platform now that it's officially pronounced dead.

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Well, Nokia Lumia 930 build quality is probably the best in the market, it has a pretty tough display too. Its super-sensitive touchscreen adorned with Gorilla Glass 3 has in fact wonderfully survived a Fruit Ninja gameplay with a Knife, believe it or not. Video below proof it!

The Lumia 930′s touchscreen is touted as being very sensitive and can be used with gloves on, and apparently even with a knife. So the next iPhone may come with a revolutionary protection layer on top of its screen, but the current-gen Gorilla Glass 3 is nothing if not tough itself.

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Opera has a long-standing partnership with Nokia to provide a browser for its phones, it used to be Opera Mini on Series 40 nowadays it's the full-fledged Opera Mobile on the Nokia X platform.

Opera will be the default browser on Nokia X phones, starting with the new Nokia X2, and it's available for free download for current X owners.

Opera is now based on Blink but adds Opera's traditional strengths including Turbo and Speed Dial. There's also the Discover features, which finds fresh content sorted by country and topic.

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Fun Fact, Did you know which phone is the best selling phone in the World ? Well, it's not an iPhone or a Samsung's Galaxy, it's not even an Android device... It's the Nokia 1100 the world's most popular phone with over than 250 million total sales worldwide, you probably have 5 of those lying around dead.

Nokia 1100 has a monochrome display with support for 4 lines of text and a resolution of 96 x 65 pixels. It had no browser, no camera, no mobile data, basically, it was just a phone for calling and texting. Oh, and it had 2 games on board.

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It's true, there was a Nokia tablet in production 9 years before Apple's iPad, or 6 years before the Steve jobs introduce the iPhone. It almost happened, after what could be called the last minute, the plug was pulled after about 1,000 units were manufactured, and so the "Nokia M510 Web Tablet" would never reach the hands of consumers.

Consumers and families were the target of the M510. Esko Yliruusi was on the team that created the tablet, and was responsible for testing the communications capabilities of the device. He was attached to the project up to the point it was canceled in August 2001 and he left the company.

The Nokia Web Tablet had a full set of features for hardware of its era. It was designed on an early build of Symbian, called Epoc. It featured native email, calendar, "noticeboard" (bulletin board), and Opera web-browser apps.

The user interface was touch-screen enabled, and also stylus enabled. There are function buttons and toggles on each side of the tablet. The screen was a full 10-inch 800x600 pixel LCD. There was enough battery power for 4 hours of use, which, if you remember the technology from 2001, meant the tablets weight of 4 pounds was perfectly reasonable.

There was USB connectivity as well as ps/2 and a 3.5mm headphone jack. Connectivity was managed by a Nokia C111 Wi-Fi module providing 802.11b connections allowing speeds up to 11Mbps. The M510 even had a stand to keep it upright while it was on the table. In fact, you could say the tablet was ahead of its time to an extent. Nokia's market research was indicating there was no demand for the product and that was the reason why the project was canceled.

Of the 1,000 tablets that were produced, nearly all of them were sent to the crusher. Mr. Yliruusi believes there are about 130 surviving devices. Each member of the development team got their own, "I had a strong feeling that this one is a keeper. There were things in the device that were done just as they should be. I felt that we shall be hearing of gadgets like this."

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