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Curved glass design Nokia 8 Sirocco smartphone launches at MWC 2018


HMD Global has on Sunday launched Nokia 8 Sirocco that spots dual rear cameras and curved glass design at the Nokia Mobile launch event in Barcelona.
The smartphone is a redesigned version of the Nokia 8 flagship launched last year, also featuring a precision-crafted stainless steel frame.
The company says the stainless steel frame of the new Nokia 8 Sirocco is 2.5 times stronger than 6000 series aluminium used in the predecessor, and it’s also more compact in height, width, and thickness than the original. It bears a slightly different rear camera setup, and IP67 rating for dust and water resistance.
The Nokia 8 Sirocco is an Android One smartphone, with the company touting the use of stock Android as well as promising swift updates.
Nokia 8 Sirocco price, availability
The Nokia 8 Sirocco price has been set at EUR 749 (roughly NGN350,000.00), excluding taxes and subsidies, what HMD Global is calling the global average retail price.
While HMD is yet to reveal the Nokia 8 Sirocco price in Nigeria, the smartphone is set to go on sale in early April in a Black colour variant
Nokia 8 Sirocco specifications

The Nokia 8 Sirocco runs Android 8.0 Oreo and spots a 5.5-inch QHD (1440×2560 pixels) pOLED display with 3D Corning Gorilla Glass 5. It is powered by an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 SoC coupled with 6GB of LPDDR4X RAM. It bears a 12-megapixel wide-angle sensor on its primary rear camera, complete with an f/1.75 aperture and 1.4-micron pixels. This is accompanied by a 13-megapixel telephoto lens capable of providing 2x optical zoom, and featuring an f/2.6 aperture, and 1-micron pixels.
The dual rear camera setup features a dual-tone LED flash as well as Zeiss optics, making it in fact completely identical to the Nokia 7 Plus that was also unveiled at the event. The Nokia 8 Sirocco front camera bears a 5-megapixel sensor paired with a fixed focus lens, f/2.0 aperture, and 1.4-micron pixels
HMD Global has provided 128GB of inbuilt storage on the Nokia 8 Sirocco that appears not to be expandable via microSD card. Connectivity options include 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth v5.0, GPS/ A-GPS, and NFC. It bears an accelerometer, ambient light sensor, barometer, digital compass, fingerprint sensor, gyroscope, and proximity sensor. It measures 140.93×72.97×7.5mm.
HMD Global also launched the Nokia 1, Nokia 7 Plus, Nokia 6 (2018) and the Nokia 8810 4G at the Nokia Mobile launch event.

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