At the ongoing MWC 2017 event, Nokia today launched the rumoured three new devices called the Nokia 3, Nokia 5 and the Nokia 3310 feature phone. The company also announced the global availability of the Nokia 6 smartphone that was launched at the CES event this year.
Nokia 5 Price
The Nokia 5 is priced at 189 Euros and will be available in Q2 in single and Dual SIM options.
Nokia 3 Price
The Nokia 3 is priced at 139 Euros (around $146) and will be available from Q2 2017 with Silver White, Matte Black, Tempered Blue and Copper White colour options.
Nokia 6 Price
The Nokia 6 will be priced at 229 Euros (around $241) with Matte Black, Tempered Blue, Silver and Copper colour options. The special edition of the Nokia 6 will be available in the Arte Black colour option with 4GB RAM and 64GB inbuilt storage and will be priced at 299 Euros (around $315) with availability starting Q2 2017 globally.
Nokia 3310 Price
The feature phone Nokia 3310 will be priced at 49 Euros and will also be available in Q2 2017.
Nokia 5 Specifications
The Nokia 5 comes with a 5.2-inch 2.5D curved glass display with 500 nits brightness, Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection and 1280 x 720 pixels resolution. It is powered by an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 ( 4 x 1.2 GHz Cortex A53 + 4 x 1.5 GHz Cortex A53) 64-bit processor with Adreno 505 GPU and has 2GB of LPDDR3 RAM with 16GB internal storage capacity and MicroSD card expandable storage up to 128GB. It runs on the Android 7.1.1 Nougat OS and supports Dual-SIM.
It features a 13-megapixel rear camera with dual-tone LED flash, PDAF, 1.12um sensor, f/2.0 aperture and an 8-megapixel front-facing camera with 1.12um sensor, f/2.0 aperture and 84˚ wide-angle lens. A 3000mAh built-in battery is available and we also have a fingerprint sensor on the front physical home button. It comes with 4G LTE, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.1, GPS and USB OTG connectivity options. We also have a 3.5mm audio jack, a speaker, a smart amplifier TFA9891 and Dolby Atmos. It measures 149.7 x 72.5 x 8.55 mm.
Nokia 3 Specifications
The Nokia 3 features a 5-inch HD 2.5D sculpted Corning Gorilla Glass display, 1280 x 720 pixels resolution and 450 nits brightness. It is powered by a 1.3GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6737 64-bit Processor with Mali T720 MP1 GPU. It has 2GB RAM 16GB internal storage and microSD card expandable storage up to 128 GB. it runs on the Android 7.0 (Nougat) OS out of the box and supports dual-SIM and single-SIM capabilities.
It features an 8-megapixel autofocus rear camera with LED Flash, f/2.0 aperture, 1.12um pixel size and an 8-megapixel autofocus front-facing camera, f/2.0 aperture and 1.12um pixel size. It is backed up by a 2650mAh battery and 4G LTE, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, and GPS connectivity options. It also has a 3.5mm audio jack and FM Radio support. It measures 143.4 x 71.4 x 8.48 mm.
Nokia 6 Specifications
The Nokia 6 will be available globally with a 5.5-inch 2.5D curved glass display with 450 nits brightness, Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection and 1920 x 1080 pixels resolution. It’s powered by an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 ( 4 x 1.2 GHz Cortex A53 + 4 x 1.5 GHz Cortex A53) 64-bit processor with Adreno 505 GPU and comes with 3GB / 4GB of LPDDR3 RAM with 32GB / 64GB internal storage capacity and MicroSD card expandable storage up to 128GB. It runs on Android 7.1.1 (Nougat) OS out of the box and supports Dual SIM.
It features a 16-megapixel rear camera with dual-tone LED flash, PDAF, 1.0um sensor, f/2.0 aperture and an 8-megapixel camera is available on the front with 1.12um sensor, f/2.0 aperture and an 84˚ wide-angle lens. A 3000mAh built-in battery comes with 4G LTE, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.1, GPS, USB OTG connectivity options and additional features include a 3.5mm audio jack, Dual speakers, Dual smart amplifiers (TFA9891) and Dolby Atmos. A fingerprint sensor is available on the physical home button on the front. It measures 154 x 75.8 x 7.8 mm.
Nokia 3310 Specifications
The only launched feature phone by Nokia, the Nokia 3310 comes with a 2.4-inch curved display with a polarized layer and it has 16MB internal storage with MicroSD card expandable storage up to 32GB. It features a 2-megapixel rear camera and has a 1200 mAh removable battery. We have 2G connectivity and Single-SIM + Dual-SIM support with FM Radio, MP3 Player, and Bluetooth 3.0 options as well. It runs on the Nokia Series 30+ OS and measures 15.6 x 51 x 12.8 mm.
India Launch
Finland-based company HMD Global scheduled an official event in India for June 13 where the company was expected to launch its new Android-powered smartphones including the Nokia 3, Nokia 5 and Nokia 6. Nokia has finally launched its trio of its new Android-powered smartphones in India including the Nokia 3, Nokia 5 and Nokia 6. The Nokia 3 comes with Matte Black, Silver White, Tempered Blue and Copper White colour options, the Nokia 5 comes in Matte Black, Silver, Tempered Blue and Copper colour options while the Nokia 6 comes in Matte Black, Silver, Tempered Blue and Copper colour options.
Nokia 3 India Price
The smaller of the three Nokia 3 is priced at Rs. 9,499 and will be available exclusively via offline stores in India from June 16th onwards.
Nokia 5 India Price
The Nokia 5 is priced at Rs. 12,899 and its pre-orders will start from July 7th and will be available exclusively via offline stores next month.
Nokia 6 India Price
Finally, the Nokia 6 is priced at Rs. 14,999 and will be available exclusively from Amazon India retailers with registrations starting July 14th for the flash sale.
UK Prices and Availability
There is something to cheer for UK fans of Nokia as the newly launched Nokia phones including Nokia 3, Nokia 5 and Nokia 3310 are coming to the UK in May. These devices will be exclusively available on UK retailer Clove UK in May and another retailer Carphone Warehouse has already announced that the Nokia 6 will also be available in the UK even in its new Arte Black edition as well but for limited time period. Clove has also listed the Nokia 6 with its availability in June.
The Nokia 3310, Nokia 3, Nokia 5 and Nokia 6 are listed at Clove UK with no pricing details of these devices. These Nokia devices were launched at MWC 2017 event last month and the company also announced the global availability of the Nokia 6 smartphone.
Nokia 6 Android 8 update
After the Nokia 8, the company behind Nokia, HMD Global, started rolling the Android 8.0 Oreo beta to the mid-range Nokia Nokia 6. Juho Sarvikas, Chief Product Officer, HMD Global has also shared the news on his Twitter account, he wrote, “#Nokia6 is now joining the #AndroidOreo beta. Subscribe to #Nokiamobilebetalabs to get the update and help us to make the official release just right! http://nokia.com/phones/betalabs”.
The update is weighted 1140MB with version 5.140 and comes with the December security patch. The update is available via the Nokia Beta labs and the users can test the Android 8.0 Oreo on their Nokia 6 devices after that, the stable Android 8.0 Oreo will roll out around the world. The company is also expected to launch the beta program soon for the other Nokia devices.
The Android 8.0 Oreo update brings different new features to the Nokia 6 that includes faster boot ups, notification dots, auto-fill passwords and much more. The Android 8.0 Oreo update will bring several new changes to the Nokia 8 UI and improvements including the redesigned settings menu, new file manager, new background restriction for battery improvements, Snooze individual notifications, new gestures for fingerprint, picture-in-picture mode, new battery menu, Rescue party, adaptive icons, notification badges on home screen and many other useful features as well.
