Nokia 6 goes on sale in the US via Amazon

NEWDELHI: Finland-based HMD Globallaunched its Nokia -branded Android smartphone -Nokia 6 in US. The smartphone is now up for sale in the country via Amazon.com in Black and Silver colour options for both Prime and non-Prime users. The company has revealed that the Copper and Blue colour variants of the up for pre-order on the website and will be available only for Prime members starting August 18.

In case you are a Prime member, then you can buy the Black variant of Nokia 6 at a discounted price of $179 along with an Amazon gift card of $50. On the other hand, the standard Black and Silver variants of Nokia 6 are up for sale at $299.99.
For those unaware, Nokia 6 runs Android 7.0 Nougat out-of-the-box and supports dual-SIM cards. It has a 5.5-inch full-HD (1080x1920 pixels) resolution display with 2.5D curved glass coating and Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection.

The handset is powered by an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 processor along with Adreno 505 GPU and 4GB LPDDR3 RAM. On the storage front, the Nokia 6 comes with an inbuilt 64GB storage, which can be expanded via a microSD card up to 128GB.

The Nokia 6 is powered by a 16MP rear camera with dual-tone LED flash, Phase Detection Autofocus and f/2.0 aperture. There is also an 8MP front-facing camera with 84-degree wide angle lens and f/2.0 aperture.

Recently, HMD Global issued an official statement, suggesting that Nokia 6 and Nokia 5 will be made available in India starting mid-August this year. Both the smartphones were launched in India last month along with the Nokia 3.

In the statement, HMD Global mentioned, "Currently, we are ramping up our production for Nokia 3 on priority to meet the existing consumer demand. In the coming week, we will start production of Nokia 6 and Nokia 5 to get them ready for sales starting by mid-august."