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Nokia Is Releasing New, Cheap Smartphones. Here's What We Know

They start at $249.

28/06/2017 12:54 PM AEST | Updated 4 hours ago

Forget the 3310. Nokia is releasing three new smartphones into the market, and not only are they pretty snazzy-looking, they are cheap. As far as smartphones go, anyway.

Priced between $249 and $399, the new Android phones are heading to our shores in late July 2017, and might just give the smartphone market a much-needed shake-up.

Here's what we know about the Nokia 3, Nokia 5 and Nokia 6.

Nokia 3

Price: $249

Features:

  • Comes in white silver and matte black
  • Laminated 5" display with sculpted Corning® Gorilla® Glass
  • Aluminum frame (made out of one piece of aluminium)
  • Integrated 8MP autofocus cameras (front and back)
  • Unlimited free cloud storage via Google Photos
  • Storage: 16 GB internal user memory
  • Delivers Android™ in its pure form, including the latest features such as Doze, which is designed to prolong battery life
  • Includes Google's most recent innovation, the Google Assistant.

Nokia 5

Price: $329

Features:

  • Available in matte black and silver
  • Laminated 5.2" IPS HD display with sculpted Corning® Gorilla ® Glass
  • Engineered out of a single block of 6000 series aluminium with 3D curved finish
  • Storage: 16 GB internal user memory
  • Powered by the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 430 mobile platform (boasting excellent battery life)
  • Integrated 13MP Phase Detection Auto Focus camera with dual tone flash
  • Uses the latest Android 7.1.1, including new features such as Doze
  • Has biometric fingerprint authentication
  • Includes Google's most recent innovation, the Google Assistant.

Nokia 6

Price: $399

Features:

  • Available in matte black and silver
  • Has a bright, hybrid in-cell 5.5" screen with full HD resolution viewed through sculpted Corning® Gorilla® Glass
  • Aluminium unibody
  • Storage: 32 GB internal user memory
  • Boasts a smart audio amplifier with dual speakers, whilst Dolby Atmos® sound delivers a powerful entertainment experience
  • Powered by the Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 430 mobile platform and the Qualcomm® Adreno™ 505 graphics process
  • Integrated phase detection auto focus 16MP camera with dual tone flash
  • Also has an 8MP autofocus front facing camera
  • Uses the latest Android 7.1.1, including new features such as Doze
  • Has biometric fingerprint authentication
  • Includes Google's most recent innovation, the Google Assistant

The Nokia 3, Nokia 5 and Nokia 6 will all be available to purchase from JB Ji-Fi and Harvey Norman from late July 2017.

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