Nokia 8 Sirocco, Nokia 7 Plus, Nokia 6 (2018), Nokia 1, Nokia 8110 4G India Launch Date Revealed

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By Gadgets 360 Staff | Updated: 26 February 2018 15:49 IST
Highlights
  • The first to launch will be the Nokia 1
  • Next up is the Nokia 6 (2018)
  • Later, the Nokia 8 Sirocco, Nokia 7 Plus, and Nokia 8110 4G will arrive

HMD Global announced the launch of five new Nokia mobiles at Barcelona on Sunday - the Nokia 8 Sirocco, the Nokia 7 Plus, the Nokia 6 (2018), and Nokia 1 Android smartphones, as well as the Nokia 8110 4G. While international pricing for the phones has been announced, there has been no word on their India price as well as launch dates. Well, one of that has changed now.

In an exclusive chat with Gadgets 360 at the sidelines of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Ajey Mehta, Vice President India, HMD Global revealed the India launch schedule of the latest Nokia mobiles.

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First to launch in India will be the Nokia 1, which has an India release date of April. Next up, we will see the launch of one of the variants of the Nokia 6 (2018) - the 3GB RAM/ 32GB storage "most likely", according to Mehta - with the other variant launching around end-May/ June.

The Nokia 8 Sirocco will come to the Indian shores sometime in May as well, while the Nokia 7 Plus will launch in end-May/ June. The last to launch will be the newest feature phone from the house of Nokia, the Nokia 8110, which will launch sometime in Q3 i.e. July 2018 or later.

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Like we mentioned earlier, Nokia launched five new mobiles on Sunday. Of the four Android smartphones launched, three are Android One smartphones - the Nokia 6 (2018), Nokia 7 Plus, and Nokia 8 Sirocco. The fourth, is an Android Oreo (Go edition) - aka Android Go - smartphone.

We spoke about all the big launches of MWC 2018 on Orbital, our weekly technology podcast, which you can subscribe to via Apple Podcasts or RSS, download the episode, or just hit the play button below.

 
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