After launching mid-range and entry-level phones—Nokia 6, 5, and 3 at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2017 in late February, HMD Global Oy, the official licensee of Nokia-brand, is laying the groundwork to launch three more phones—Nokia 9, 8 and 7— series with top-of-the-line features.
Nokia 9, 8 and 7 have reportedly made a stop at popular performance testing site Geekbench.
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As per Geekbench listing (WinFuture), a device under the moniker "unknown Heart", understood to be Nokia 9 series, houses Qualcomm's most powerful processor yet-- Snapdragon 835 octa-core, which can clock up to 2.45GHz speed and is backed by 6GB RAM (available 3718MB free). The phone scored 6,278 and 1,815 points on multi-core and single-core tests, respectively.
Nokia 8 is expected to feature Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 processor with 4GB RAM.
In another listing, Nokia 7 is shown to have Qualcomm's newly launched upper-mid-range chipset Snapdragon 630/626 with 3GB RAM. The device scored 3,235 and 720 points on multi-core and single-core tests, respectively.
[Note: HMD Global internally uses Heart code-name for Nokia phones, for ex: Nokia 3 is HMD Global Heart, whereas the Nokia 5 is called as Nokia Heart]
Nokia 9, 8 and 7 series phones are speculated to be launched in two to three months and more info leaks are expected in the meantime.
Watch this space for latest news on HMD Global-made Nokia phones.
