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The Nokia 6 will be available in early July:
HMD Global — the Finnish company that owns the rights to manufacture Nokia-branded smartphones — announced earlier this year that it would be releasing new midrange Nokia Android phones in the United States. We now have more information on the first Nokia phone to hit Stateside: the Nokia 6, which will be available in early July for $229.
The Nokia 6 is the largest of the three Android phones HMD Global announced at Mobile World Congress, featuring a 5.5-inch, 1920 x 1080 display, Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 processor, 3GB of RAM, and 32GB of internal storage (expandable by microSD). On the software side of things, the 6 runs Android Nougat in its purest, unadulterated form — that means no bundled apps or overlaid skins. Plus, while the specs are decidedly average, the Nokia 6 does stand out with a metal unibody design built out of a single block of aluminum, which adds a premium touch to the otherwise midrange device.
Amazon is subsidizing the Nokia 6 by slapping ads on the lock screen.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Thursday June 29 2017, @01:35AM (11 children)
Give us a phone with a tiny screen.
Maybe even a mono display in candybar form, and a two week battery.
Let us add that to our plan for 5 bucks a month. They's sell a gazillion of them.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by bob_super on Thursday June 29 2017, @01:51AM (1 child)
Not tiny: 4 inches or so, with slim bezels to fit in any pocket. Not crazy resolution, just enough to check maps and mail.
Make it thick enough for a big battery, because slim doesn't matter, and neither does weight at this point: Charge once or twice a week for light use.
Security updates wouldn't hurt, and those are easier in there is no bloatware.
I think I will have to give up on the slider physical keyboard, very sadly...
(except for the form factor being just too big, this wish list translates to "gimme a new Priv")
(Score: 2) by choose another one on Thursday June 29 2017, @12:03PM
> (except for the form factor being just too big, this wish list translates to "gimme a new Priv")
I'm actually on the page of "gimme a new Curve" (I never tried the Priv though, maybe a smaller Priv would in fact suffice :-) ).
Slightly larger / higher res screen than the Curve wouldn't hurt, a better camera, and the ability to load todays bloated compute-heavy mobile-web, and a full range of apps (which basically means - "running Android" :-( ) - that would be ideal. And keep the same charge-once-a-week battery life and basic indestructibility of the original.
I ran my Curve until the rubber on the buttons was degrading and falling off, it still worked. Dropped more times than I can remember, screen replaced at least twice, keyboard once, battery twice I think (all parts pretty cheap and repairs DIYable). In the end what made me change it was app-support disappearing and its increasing inability to actually load webpages, whether due to out-of-date browser or compute/memory limitations or some combination of both.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by kaszz on Thursday June 29 2017, @02:04AM (4 children)
Precisely, a modern Nokia 3310 clone. With the indestructibility that goes with it.
Screen: Monochrome and small - Saves battery
CPU/RAM: Less - Saves battery and opportunities for malware to stick around.
Keys: Real! - works even without light etc.
Unlocked bootloader of course. But I'll suspect a OS like Android will be need to gain any market foothold.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Thursday June 29 2017, @02:39AM (2 children)
That already exists.
Google it.
But the bigger the screen the more Temptation for advertisers, so small is good.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday June 29 2017, @04:03AM (1 child)
The Nokia 3310 reloaded seems to have these specifications:
* Charging by micro-USB
* 2.4" color TFT display at 240 x 320 pixels 18 bpp, 167 ppi
* 2 Mpix camera with LED flash, 1600 x 1200 pixels
* mp3-player
* 3,5 mm headset jack (WH-108?)
* 2G compatible, GPRS, EDGE, 0.236 Mbit/s
* FM radio
* ROM: 16 MB
* Storage: 16 MB + micro-SD/SDHC that support up to 32 GB
* 115.6 x 51 x 12.8 mm, 0.0796 kg
* Dual band GSM 900/1800 MHz
* Bluetooth v3, A2DP
* 1200 mAh removable battery, 31 days standby time, 22 hours talk time
* 49 EUR 2017-02-26
* Operating system: 30+ [wikipedia.org] originally made by Mediatek for Microsoft's Nokia
src [pocket-lint.com]
src [arstechnica.com]
src [phonemore.com]
src [gadgets7.news]
src [indiatimes.com]
It really seems neat. But they botched it with color screen which equals excess power draw. And 2G lacks the security of 3G which means that the network may be spoofed. The operating system could been something free, after all with plenty of CPU capacity and RAM it won't need any shoehorn anymore (I think the original even used ATmega?).
So good, but not really there. Add 3G and free bootloader and it's worthwhile.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday June 29 2017, @04:07AM
Is this phone is as "drop" sturdy as the original?
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Thursday June 29 2017, @04:15AM
As frojack may have been hinting, there's a current phone called the Nokia 3310 (they could at least have added bis to the name).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_3310_(2017) [wikipedia.org]
It runs Java Micro Edition apps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_30%2B [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 29 2017, @03:19AM
How about one of these [wired.com], also from Nokia? No mono display, but it claims 38 day battery life so should pass the 2 week bar.
I don't know if I'll get that exact one, but my next phone will be a dumb phone.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Thursday June 29 2017, @03:58AM (2 children)
Sharp used to make a colour LCD display that could be viewed without a back-light. The Danger Hiptop had it.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 29 2017, @09:17AM (1 child)
It's called a transflective LCD, and my Garmin GPS has one. Not only is it easily readable in direct sunlight, it also only needs the backlight turned on when used in low light conditions.
Basically it replaces the backlight with a mirror. Well, not quite replaces, it has both.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Thursday June 29 2017, @08:33PM
Thank you, that's it. Some pages about it:
article explaining why transflective displays are uncommon in mobile phones
https://www.manufacturing.net/article/2012/07/what-happened-transflective-displays [manufacturing.net]
photos of such a display on a Garmin GPS, compared with an AMOLED display
http://infracanis.com/yggdrasil/Articles/gear/garmin550/vsphone.html [infracanis.com]
Wikipedia article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transflective_liquid-crystal_display [wikipedia.org]