HMD Global likely to unveil Nokia X with iPhone X like Notch Display on May 16, 2018

Highlights

• New phone named as Nokia X
• Nokia X to sport iPhone X like Notch Display
• Launch on May 16, 2018
• Specifications to be released at later date

HMD Global is likely to unveil Nokia X with iPhone X like Notch Display on May 16, 2018. It looks like Nokia has finally decided on the name of the smartphone and will be introducing it as Nokia X. Now the company has even confirmed the launch date for the Nokia X and will be bringing it in the Chinese market on May 16 as translated from a post on Weibo. As the image posted on the website shows, the Nokia smartphone will come with an iPhone X-like notch on top of an edge-to-edge display. The design is very similar to Apple’s iPhone X and the multiple other notch-bearing edge-to-edge display-bearing smartphones, but has a wider section to the bottom bearing the Nokia logo.

Rumoured specifications of the device point at a 5.8-inch, Full HD+ display bearing 19:9 aspect ratio and 1080 x 2280-pixel display resolution. It is expected to run Android One v8.1 (Oreo), along with options for 4GB and 6GB of memory, and 64GB and 128GB of storage. The phone may be powered by either the Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 or the MediaTek Helio P60. The upper-mid range smartphone may be placed at a premium market position, with a 12-megapixel dual-camera setup to the rear along with Carl Zeiss lenses.

Although HMD Global has announced the launch date of the new Nokia X, it did not it has not revealed any of the specifications of the device. Going by previous reports, Nokia X6 is expected to sport a 5.8-inch Full-HD+ display with a 2280 x 1080 pixels resolution and a 19:9 aspect ratio. It is expected to be available in two different variants including one powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 SoC and another by a MediaTek P60 soc. The base variant of the Nokia smartphone will carry a 4GB RAM with 64GB of inbuilt storage. It will run the latest Android 8.1 Oreo operating system.