Nokia 8 Sirocco the most-powerful Android One smartphone with 2K pOLED display and 6GB RAM launched

HMD Global, the company who owns the licence to manufacture Nokia smartphones, today unveiled a slew smartphones at an event held just a day before the world's biggest phone tradeshow, Mobile World Congress 2018 (MWC 2018), held in Barcelona, Spain. HMD's new smartphones portfolio includes Nokia 8 Sirocco, the most-powerful Android One smartphone launched so far.


 Nokia 8 Sirocco specifications

The all-new Nokia Sirocco succeeds the company's current flagship smartphone -- Nokia 8 -- that launched in September last year. The new flagship smartphone sports 5.5-inch curved edge-to-edge pOLED 2K display (1440x2560 pixels) with 3D Corning Gorilla Glass 5 coating. The smartphone is built of single piece of dual diamond polished stainless steel, which the company claims is 2.5 times stronger than 6000 series aluminium. It measures 140.93x72.97x7.5 mm. The nano-SIM smartphone will come powered with Android Oreo operating system out of the box.

The smartphone has 12/13MP dual rear camera with ZEISS optics and 2x optical zoom. On the front, there's ultra-sensitive wide-angle (84 degree FOV) camera for low-light photography; Pro Camera mode, ISO, and Dual-Sight technology.

Nokia 8 Sirocco has 6GB RAM, 128GB internal storage and finger-print scanner at the back. The smartphone, however, runs on Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor, which is same as the current-generation Nokia 8.

All-new Nokia 8 Sirocco supports Qi wireless charging and comes with IP67 rating, which makes it dust and splash-resistant. The connectivity options in the smartphone include 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac (MIMO), BT 5.0, GPS/AGPS+GLONASS+BDS, NFC, ANT+, ALS/PS, g-sensor, e-compass, gyro, hall sensor and barometer.

 Nokia 8 Sirocco

As for availability and pricing, the smartphone will hit retail stores in April and has been priced at 749 euros (Rs 60,000 approximately). The company, however, did not reveal the smartphone's India pricing as well as when it will hit the stores in India.
HMD Global also launched Nokia 1, Nokia 7 Plus, Nokia 6 (2018) and Nokia 8110.