Nokia 8.1 Plus renders show a punch hole camera on a 6.2" display
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- Luxor
- Hka
- 10 Jan 2019
Nokia phone is good but it lack attraction. The specs and design is pretty much predictable. All the chinese company doing the same thing. Key differentiator is price and availability. Company like Xiaomi and Huawei could sell these cheaper than Nokia with similar specs and design. Nokia android one is great but it also making it one of the most dull phone on the market. Even Pixel is more interesting. Nokia is like a plain white bread that sold expensively and not widely available yet it is not really a problem maker. Not many people want it and also no many people hate it. Just so-so.
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- Fguy
- Kx1
- 10 Jan 2019
Oh another punch hole copycat.. Next
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- Dan
- 2Wn
- 10 Jan 2019
FinnishInquisition, 10 Jan 2019He is not a representative of Foxconn. He ended his employm... moreYes he is. Foxconn owns a big chunk of HMD and Chin is close with Gou. There's also another Taiwanse director on the board.
Being half-Chinese is a very much an advantage these days. For example, HMD is able to price the Nokia X5, X6 and X7 aggressively due to Foxconn's low-cost manufacturing capabilities, and some of parts are coming from suppliers within the Hon Hai group (Foxconn's parent), which results in further cost savings via vertical integration.
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- qig
- 10 Jan 2019
mehtasameer2087, 10 Jan 2019Read this for Foxconn https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FoxconnInteresting. The wording is a little weird, as it makes it seem as if this Nokia is designed by Finnish and manufactured by Chinese, implying dual ownership of some kind
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- Anonymous
- Ngy
- 10 Jan 2019
Nokia fanboys are becoming annoying
And what you think that all chinese brands (they are already competitors) have paid gsmarena to just kick out nokia which doesn't represent a real threat it is still new
Every brand make mistakes nokua 8.1 was one of them just admit this
Just think a moment before posting such comments
Nokia fanboys are becoming annoying
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- FinnishInquisition
- m}S
- 10 Jan 2019
Dan, 10 Jan 2019The chairman of the board at HMD Global is a representative... moreHe is not a representative of Foxconn. He ended his employment at Foxconn 2 years before HMD even existed. Or are you going to tell me that HTC and Philips are also represented on the board? A company that actually IS represented on the board, as required by the brand agreement, is Nokia Technologies.
HMD is entirely located in Finland with investments mainly coming from Europe.
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- KZK
- 10 Jan 2019
Since now is already 2019 they should stop developing x.1 line up in favour of x.2. The successor of Nokia 1 and 9 later this year should be called 1.2 and 9.2 respectively.
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- Dan
- 2Wn
- 10 Jan 2019
The chairman of the board at HMD Global is a representative of Foxconn, whereas the CEO is an ex-Nokia executive.
So HMD Global is a Chinese+Finnish mix.
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- Anonymous
- Nue
- 10 Jan 2019
Lunarwolf, 10 Jan 2019Nokia is not old Nokia, they're just playing catch-up wh... moreThey have to play catch up because that is their reality as the moment. They have to regain lost ground first and keep up with ever dynamic change in mobile business.
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- IbE
- 10 Jan 2019
Judging by Nokia past, this phone should be released in 2020.
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- Anonymous
- T6s
- 10 Jan 2019
Anonymous, 10 Jan 2019Nokia is not Nokia because the only thing these new Nokia p... moreYou're an easily manipulate person
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- y$1
- 10 Jan 2019
[deleted post]The power of writer. While we can only rant about devices in comments, they can rant about devices in an article. An unprofessional one that is. I mean, sure, even writers mostly biased on everything. They are human too. But professional one tend to rectify their bias so that it won't affect their writing.
Now, regarding 7.1 Plus which shifted to 8.1. There is a 9 in the corner which going to take the flagship role. Where would he want to put the 8 line up to? It should be lower than 9, but higher than 7. It can't use SD 6xx and it shouldn't use SD 8xx. It's obvious that SD 7xx will be chosen.
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- Anonymous
- HsG
- 10 Jan 2019
Anonymous, 10 Jan 2019Quirky, quirky designs... Easily, one of the best phones th... moreYeah.. they can keep the price low as well.. just update the specs. 6 or 6.1 or 7 plus or 8 design was very good. Cut the bezels here and there. I don't understand why not just upgrade the specs, add better display and battery instead of creating notch things. They just want to follow the trend instead of creating the one.
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- Anonymous
- HsG
- 10 Jan 2019
Nokia playing safe game. Follow the trend.. only fans would buy if they had not considered notch phones and now punch hole selfie camera design. Nothing wrong. If they had just released phones with 16:9 aspect ratio like Nokia 8 sirocco they might have lost it by now. flow with the wind. Don't want to create their own identity at least for now.
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- Anonymous
- IsY
- 10 Jan 2019
Quirky, quirky designs... Easily, one of the best phones that could be made is if you take the Nokia 6 or 6.1's body and materials and you put flagships specs on it. Then that will be one of the most practical modern phones.
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- Anonymous
- Ngy
- 10 Jan 2019
umeshk, 10 Jan 2019Agree. Gsmarena has been quite negative with nokia. They d... moreGsmarena are the most neutral site
They reviewed most of nokia's smartphone (more than any other brand)
Nokia 8.1 is really dissapointement they said it must be named as nokia 7.1 plus because it seems as a successor for the nokia 7 plus and not the nokia 8 It is not by any way a flagship
Nokia fanboys are becoming very annoying
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- Anonymous
- nDi
- 10 Jan 2019
Lunarwolf, 10 Jan 2019Nokia is not old Nokia, they're just playing catch-up wh... moreNokia is not Nokia because the only thing these new Nokia phones have in common with Nokia Oyj is the name.
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- 7ki
- 10 Jan 2019
[deleted post]Agree. Gsmarena has been quite negative with nokia. They dont review their phones. Put news in negative. While they review many chinese handsets before they're even launched...
8.1plus looks promising to me. Maybe it has a telphoto cam it misses the big notch of 8.1 and maybe it will habe sd845 ... an omoled ? All these can make it stand very differently from 8.1. Or even if it misses one of these still it an proper upgrade
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- Anonymous
- 2G8
- 10 Jan 2019
d king has designs for everyone LOL notch, round hole,next will be square hole