HMD Global expected to launch Nokia 3310 at end of April with Nokia 3,5, and 6 launching in May

HMD Global is expected to launch the Nokia 3310, a revamped edition of the legendary Nokia 3310 at the end of April. According to a report by Neowin, the company will start selling the feature phone in Malaysia. This will be followed by the staged launches of Nokia 3, 5, and 6 smartphones in May. The report points out that Nokia 3 will be the first smartphone to go on sale at the start of May followed by Nokia 5 around the middle of the month and then Nokia 6 towards the end of the month.

The company had claimed earlier that all the smartphones will go on sale in 120 markets at the same time. So we can expect that the devices will go on sale in all markets at the same time. HMD Global has not released any official announcement at the time of writing about any expected date for the launch and availability of the devices. All this comes months after HMD Global announced these devices during MWC 2017.

Nokia 3310 comes with a curved 2.4-inch QCGA screen, a 2MP rear camera with LED flash, a headphone jack, dual-SIM support, FM Radio and an MP3 player. Internal storage is limited to 16MB but it can be expanded by up to 32GB via a microSD card. One thing to note here is that the device is a featurephone and only supports 2G connections while sporting Bluetooth 3.0 (with SLAM) and microUSB v2.0

The Nokia 3 sports a 5-inch HD (1280×720 pixels) IPS display, a quad-core MediaTek MT6737 processor, 2 GB of RAM, 16 GB storage, 8 MP front and rear camera, and a 2650 mAh battery. It runs on Android 7.0 Nougat and will be available in dual SIM.

The Nokia 5 feature a Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 processor, 2GB of RAM, 16GB inbuilt storage, 5.2-inch IPS LCD (1280×720 pixels), 13 MP rear camera, an 8 MP camera, a fingerprint sensor and a 3000 mAh battery.

The Nokia 6 features a 5.5-inch full-HD display, a Snapdragon 430 SoC, 4 GB of RAM, 64 GB of internal storage, 3000 mAh battery, 16 MP rear camera, an 8 MP front camera with f/2.0 aperture and a fingerprint scanner.

Publish date: April 5, 2017 1:01 pm| Modified date: April 5, 2017 1:01 pm

Nokia phone takes a bullet, saves a life yet again

Nokia logo is seen in this file photo. Reuters

By tech2 News Staff /  07 Oct 2016 , 17:27

Nokia has been a loved brand. Everyone who wanted a high-quality phone went for a Nokia. Be it smartphones or feature phones, the Finnish brand was the leader of making handsets. We’ve also heard a lot about how solid they were built. Even today, the Nokia 3315 is hailed to be as strong as a brick.

Even after exiting the handset business Nokia is still making news. And saving lives for that matter. Peter Skillman, a Microsoft executive, recently shared a picture of a badly damaged Nokia feature phone. The phone had apparently taken a bullet, of course it isn’t in a working condition but it managed to save the user’s life. Peter Skillman’s tweet reads, “A Nokia phone I worked on a few years ago saved the life of a man in Afghanistan last week. The embedded bullet.”

A Nokia phone I worked on a few years ago saved the life of a man in Afghanistan last week. The embedded bullet…. pic.twitter.com/O2zBxadkDO

— peter skillman (@peterskillman) October 5, 2016

You can see in the picture how the bullet has penetrated the phone but hasn’t managed to go through it. We can’t quite confirm the model number but it definitely is a Nokia branded phone.

We’ve heard similar miracles in the past of how Nokia phones have survived a lot of abuse, damage and taking bullets. But frankly, we didn’t expect a case at a time when Nokia phones are getting extinct.