Nokia Announces New Smartphones On Set Of Upcoming Action Movie
Posted on Thursday, September 24, 2020
Author: Absalom Mulama
007 James Bond: No Time To Die Poster
Finnish smartphone manufacturer, Nokia has introduced three new smartphones to its line-up of modern phones. The firm owned by HMD Global held a virtual press conference to unveil the new smartphones on Monday 22nd September. The three smartphones cover the high-end, midrange and entry level price range appealing to a wide variety of customers.
Their high-end, standout phone is the ‘Nokia 8.3 5G’ packing sharp cameras and a high-powered processor from American manufacturer, Qualcomm. The Nokia 8.3 is targeted to appeal to digital content creators such as photographers and videographers. Launched at the set of an upcoming action movie, ‘James Bond: No Time To Die’ Nokia really had a point to prove with their new smartphone. The movie is set for a November 11th 2020 release date and the phone was used to take still photos that are part of the movie’s promotion campaign.
Speaking in the unveiling, HMD Global CEO, Florian Seiche described the phone as perfect for social media vloggers. “The Nokia 8.3 5G has the ability to capture cinematic style videos and photography, which is perfect of the social media savvy creatives,” said Florian. The HMD Global CEO claimed that since people are increasingly working remotely, Nokia needed to tailor their products to help serve that purpose and make it even more convenient.
New Nokia Smartphones: Nokia 3.4, Nokia 2.4 and Nokia 8.3 5G respectively
The Nokia 8.3 5G is equipped with four rear cameras, a 64mp (megapixel) main camera, a 12mp and two of 2mp cameras, with a 24mp selfie camera. According to the unveiling ceremony, the cameras can record up to 4K video quality hence the ‘cinema style’ claim by the Finnish Company. The Nokia phone's display is a 6.8 inch high Definition (HD) screen. The phone is equipped with a ‘Snapdragon 765’ processor, which is one of Qualcomm’s mid-upper range processors. In Kenya, the 64 gigabytes verison of the phone will cost around Sh. 63,000.
The other two phones are a midrange and an entry level smartphone targeted at the younger crowd and new smartphone users. The midrange Nokia 3.4 and the entry level Nokia 2.4 are expected to cost around Ksh20,000 and Ksh16,000 respectively. While having no features that standout from competitors, Florian presented these two phones as a “simple yet practical tool for the regular smartphone user.” Eager customers will however have to wait for the phones to arrive into the African market within a month or so.
Nokia seems to be battling with another tech giant, Samsung who have flooded the midrange market with affordable phones. Samsung’s ‘Galaxy A series’ smartphones are popular in Africa and will prove to be difficult for Nokia to overtake.
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