It is currently sold and maintained by Microsoft Mobile.

The Nokia XL was announced in a surprising manner at the 2014 edition of Mobile World Congress on 24 February 2014 which was held in Barcelona, Spain.

It featured a bigger camera (5 MP sensor) and also a LED flash and 2 MP front-facing camera—the last two are absent on the Nokia X and Nokia X+ models.

[7][8][9] The phone was known in the development stages as "Asha Monster".

[10] An LTE version was released in China in July 2014.