First, the good news. The entry level Nokia 3.1, as promised by Nokia when it was announced last month, is available in the United States. It sells for $159 and is available from Amazon. Now the bad news: It’s sold out.
Obviously the fact that the phone has sold out is great news for Nokia but for those who were wanting to get their hands on the budget friendly 5.2″ phone powered by Android One, you are going to have to wait a while.
Nokia today made a somewhat of a surprise announcement with the new Nokia 5.1, 3.1 and 2.1 phones coming to their lineup later this summer. Running Android One on the 5.1 and 3.1 while running on the 2.1 will be Android Go, HMD Global has more-or-less given incremental upgrades to the .0 versions of these current phones in their lineup.
By far the biggest upgrade came to the Nokia 5.1. Sporting a 5.5″ Full HD display, it has an 18:9 aspect ratio and is powered by the MediaTek Helio P18 octa-core SoC. It comes with either 2GB of RAM with 16GB of storage or 3GB of RAM with 32GB of storage. IN either case, the storage can be expanded an additional 128GB thanks to the MicroSD slot. Camera wise, you have a 16MP main shooter with auto-focus while the selfie camera is an 8MP shooter. All of this, along with the phone running Android One (Oreo) will cost a comfortable $218 when it is released.