Nokia 6 Headed to the US for $229

Practise you lot notice yourself reminiscing most the foretime era when Nokia was the male monarch of the cell phone marketplace? You might shortly be able to scratch that itch.

HMD Global, the Finnish company that at present owns the Nokia brand, on Monday announced plans to launch its Nokia 6 handset in the US next month via Amazon. The 5.v-inch handset will be available in matte black and silver in early July for $229. Afterward this summertime, blue and copper versions will be bachelor.

"It brings u.s.a. great pleasure to innovate a new generation of US fans to Nokia phones, while offering existing fans the same unparalleled and high-quality Nokia phone feel they accept come up to beloved over the years," HMD Global Vice President Maurizio Angelone said in a argument. "The Nokia vi exemplifies our delivery to best-in-class functioning, blueprint, and craftsmanship, and we are proud to offer American consumers a smartphone choice that will not crave them to sacrifice quality for price."

Get-go announced in February, the Nokia half dozen runs the latest version of Android, Nougat, and features an aluminum unibody design with a total HD screen, plus a 16MP camera on the back and 8MP front-facing shooter. The photographic camera features a dual-tone flash which allows for "natural colors and skin tones indoors and out," HMD said.

The Nokia vi is powered past the lower-end Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 mobile platform coupled with 3GB of RAM. Other specs include 32GB of internal memory (plus a MicroSD carte du jour slot that supports up to 128GB), a 3,000 mAh battery, and dual speakers with Dolby Atmos engineering science.

HMD is really playing up the telephone'southward design, proverb that the shell is "crafted from a unmarried block of 6000-serial aluminium," which takes 55 minutes to create, and is and so polished "no less than five times."

"The end issue is an aluminium unibody with the highest level of visual and structural quality," the company boasts.

PCMag'due south sis site in Republic of india said the Nokia 6 "felt amend than the OnePlus 3T in terms of build quality," but is almost one-half the cost. They too noted that "the phone felt plenty responsive" despite its processor.

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Angela Moscaritolo is PCMag'south adept on fettle and smart domicile products. Didactics yoga for near 10 years has helped her in evaluating a range of connected health products including fitness trackers, heart rate monitors, rowers, smart scales, stationary bikes, force training machines, treadmills, and more than. Angela also tests smart habitation devices from her ranch in Florida, including air purifiers, kitchen appliances, and robot vacuums, only to name a few.