In case you missed it, HMD Global recently launched a phone with the Nokia branding. We covered the release last weekend, but the most important news at the launch was the Nokia 6 will only officially be sold in the Chinese market. The new Nokia phone will be made available sometime in "early 2017," for a price of 1699 CNY (which is around $250 right now).
We'll have to wait and see when HMD Global will be ready to start selling the phone to the general public.
In China, smartphone companies like to ask potential customers to pre-register for a device that they're interested in buying. This is different than an actual pre-order, as the person is generally not expected to pay any money to register their interest in the phone. It just gives the OEM an idea as to how many people are interested in a certain product of theirs. It was reported that over 250,000 people pre-registered for the Nokia 6 within the first 24 hours.
Some companies in China also do pre-orders though, and that does generally require that the person pay in full to reserve their own device. So early this morning, we started to see reports that HMD Global had been able to get over 100,000 full pre-orders for the Nokia 6 within the first 4 days. While not record breaking numbers, it's definitely impressive for a company to achieve this when they were founded in May of last year, and when this is their first notable release.
The device definitely has some decent specs for the price it is available at, and the design isn't anything to scoff at either. The type of software made available in the Nokia 6 will surely make or break this device though. That, and we'll have to see if they actually have plans to support the device (with both software patches and major version updates) once the device has actually been made available.
What do you think of the Nokia 6's specs, design and price? Will this be something you try to pick up from a reseller, or will you wait and for the flagship Nokia 8?
Source: DigiTimes
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