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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: 3, Interesting) by stormwyrm on Thursday June 29 2017, @01:47AM (6 children)
Is it one of those phones for which bootloader unlock, root, and custom ROM are a reasonably well-documented procedure that a power user can perform (cf. the Nexus devices) or is Nokia/HMD one of those manufacturers that work as hard as the game console companies to prevent the people who buy their devices from taking full ownership of them? If they're closer to being the former, I'm picking one of their phones when my current Nexus 6p reaches obsolescence.
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(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Thursday June 29 2017, @02:00AM (3 children)
Likewise here. I still use a Nexus 5. I've been waiting for a phone with a reasonable price and reasonable specs that is not ruined by poorly done UI corruptions and bundled bloatware. This may very well be it, but it would be nice to have it well supported by the mod community.
(Score: 2) by Absolutely.Geek on Thursday June 29 2017, @02:19AM (2 children)
I was running a N5 for a few years but sadly the power button gave up...I didn't really have time to fix it so I replaced it with a N5X.
One thing about the N5X that is significantly better then the N5 is the radio; I get much much better reception then I ever did on the N5. Other then that the upgrade wasn't really noticeable. If the power button on my N5 had not failed I would still be running it now. My partner is still running hers; it has already had about a year of extra use compared to my one.
Not sure what I would buy if my N5X came to an untimely end or what my partner would get if her N5 failed.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by Nerdfest on Thursday June 29 2017, @04:00AM
Yeah, the "Good device for a fair price" thing doesn't seem to be popular anymore. I'd rather have a mid-range device that can be rooted and tweaked than a "high-end" device with a locked bootloader and a horrid replacement UI.
(Score: 2) by richtopia on Thursday June 29 2017, @06:16PM
My phone is a used 5x. I don't see any reason to move away from the platform if I need a replacement.
You are right about the radios and miss another aspect: it covers a lot of LTE radio bands. If you travel internationally the 5x is about as old of a phone as you can go and still get LTE most places.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Thursday June 29 2017, @03:39PM
Give it an easily-removable battery and an unlocked bootloader and root so I can load LineageOS or some other 3rd-party ROM if I want, give it a nice AMOLED screen, and make sure Otterbox makes a Defender case for it, and I'm getting one.
(Score: 1) by Crash on Thursday June 29 2017, @06:28PM
A few months ago Motorola's G5 Plus was $239 (from $299) via Amazon's lockscreen-AD-discount.
Yet today, the base price of the G5 Plus has already dropped to $229 at most retailers. The G5 Plus trounces the Nokia 6 on hardware specs, with Nokia 6 tending towards low midrange, while the G5 Plus is high midrange.