Nokia brand licence owner HMD Global has announced the forthcoming launch of its first 5G phone as well as three other more affordable handsets. The Nokia 8.3 is a 5G-enabled smartphone running Android 10 with a Snapdragon 765G processor and a combination of either 6GB RAM/64GB storage or 8GB/128GB. It has a 6.81-inch FHD+ display, 4500mAh battery and a quad-camera Zeiss Optics array on the back, including a main 64-megapixel sensor, 12-megapixel ultrawide camera, 2-megapixel macro camera and a 2-megapixel depth sensor. There’s also a 24-megapixel camera on the front.
HMD described the Nokia 8.3 5G as the “first truly global and future-proof” 5G smartphone, supporting a wider range of 5G bands than its rivals, from 600hmz to 3.8GHz. It will be available to buy in “summer 2020” for EUR 559 in the 6/64GB version and EUR 649 for the 8/128GB combination.
The three new mid-range and budget smartphones unveiled by HMD will be released sooner. They include the Nokia 5.3, a successor to the Nokia 5.1 from 2018, with a 6.55-inch display, Snapdragon 665 processor and 4,000mAh battery. The handset also features a quad-camera setup with a main 13-megapixel camera, 5-megapixel ultrawide angle camera, 2-megapixel macro camera and a 2-megapixel depth sensor plus an 8-megapixel camera on the front. A 4GB RAM and 64GB storage version will be available globally for EUR 189 in April.
Also released in April will be the entry-level Nokia 1.3, a EUR 95 Android 10 (Go edition) smartphone with a 5.71-inch screen, Snapdragon 250 processor, single 8-megapixel camera on its rear and a 3.5mm headphone jack. Finally, the EUR 39 Nokia 5310 is a 2G phone available later this month based on Nokia’s 2007 5310 handset, with an MP3 player, FM radio and a battery that lasts a month on standby, said HMD.
