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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 29 2017, @02:41AM (4 children)
Wrong. You see, smartphone is not really a phone, it's a handheld computer with touch interface, it's a thin rectangular device with screen on it. Mechanical design is just not a factor.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Thursday June 29 2017, @03:22AM
It can be, if they can add a sliding keyboard: larger screen economy, better tactile sense (than the virtual keyboard on the screen); may make a whole difference for the visual-impaired people.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 29 2017, @03:47AM (1 child)
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Thursday June 29 2017, @04:38PM
Yeah, I think durability is a *bigger* issue with smartphones. Screens break easier than the plastic a lot of those old phones were made of; a cracked screen is a bigger usability issue than cracked plastic; and replacing a broken smartphone screen can cost more than the full price of one of those old feature phones.
But while I agree a larger battery would be nice, I can also see thinness as part of a viable strategy to improve durability (indirectly perhaps). I certainly don't need my phone to be half a millimeter thick, and such a phone would probably shatter pretty quick...but my S5 in an Otterbox is around a half inch, which feels just about perfect. The thinner the phone, the more plastic and rubber you can pack it in. And yes, they could just build that into the phone...but if you do drop it and the case breaks absorbing the impact, it's easy to replace. If the case is built-in, you've still got a busted phone. Plus it's kinda nice to decouple the internal hardware from the external aesthetics for people who are into those things.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Nerdfest on Thursday June 29 2017, @04:01AM
Maybe they could drop the "thin" part, add 3mm to it and have 3 or 4 days of battery life like we all keep screaming for.