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posted by mrpg on Thursday June 29 2017, @01:15AM   Printer-friendly
from the good-luck dept.

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.

Also at Engadget and CNET.


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  • (Score: 2) by choose another one on Thursday June 29 2017, @12:03PM

    by choose another one (515) Subscriber Badge on Thursday June 29 2017, @12:03PM (#532917)

    > (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.

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