The Nokia 3.1 is a
Nokia
Nokia Corporation (natively Nokia Oyj, referred to as Nokia) is a Finnish multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consumer electronics corporation, established in 1865. Nokia's main headquarters are in Espoo, Finland, i ...
-branded entry-level
Android smartphone
A smartphone is a portable computer device that combines mobile telephone and computing functions into one unit. They are distinguished from feature phones by their stronger hardware capabilities and extensive mobile operating systems, whic ...
released in May 2018 by
HMD Global
HMD Global Oy, branded as HMD and Nokia Mobile, is a Finnish mobile phone manufacturer. The company is made up of the mobile phone business that Nokia sold to Microsoft in 2014, then bought back in 2016. HMD began marketing Nokia-branded smar ...
. It is the successor to
Nokia 3
The Nokia 3 is a Nokia-branded entry-level Android smartphone designed and marketed by HMD Global. It was announced on 26 February 2017, a day before the Mobile World Congress started, along with the Nokia 6, Nokia 5, and Nokia 3310 (2017). The ...
.
It was launched with
Android 8.0 "Oreo", which could be updated to
Android 10. The phone is part of Google's
Android One
Android One is a family of third-party Android smartphones promoted by Google. In comparison to many third-party Android devices, which ship with a manufacturer's customized user interface and bundled apps, these devices run near- stock ve ...
program.
Design
The phone uses a
MediaTek MT6750N system-on-chip
A system on a chip or system-on-chip (SoC ; pl. ''SoCs'' ) is an integrated circuit that integrates most or all components of a computer or other electronic system. These components almost always include a central processing unit (CPU), memor ...
, containing an octa-core 1.5 GHz
ARM Cortex-A53
The ARM Cortex-A53 is one of the first two central processing units implementing the ARMv8-A 64-bit instruction set designed by ARM Holdings' Cambridge design centre. The Cortex-A53 is a 2-wide decode superscalar processor, capable of dual- ...
central processing unit
A central processing unit (CPU), also called a central processor, main processor or just Processor (computing), processor, is the electronic circuitry that executes Instruction (computing), instructions comprising a computer program. The CPU per ...
and an ARM Mali-T860 MP2 GPU. The phone has a 2990 mAh Li-ion battery, a 13 megapixel rear camera with an LED flash, and an 8 megapixel front camera.
It has an IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen with an 18:9 aspect ratio.
The phone comes with two types of models: a 2GB RAM variant with 16 GB storage, and a 3GB RAM variant with 32 GB storage.
The device was initially shipped with
Android Oreo
Android Oreo ( codenamed Android O during development) is the eighth major release and the 15th version of the Android mobile operating system. It was first released as an alpha quality developer preview in March 2017 and released to the pub ...
. An update to
Android Pie
Android Pie ( codenamed Android P during development), also known as Android 9 (API 28) is the ninth major release and the 16th version of the Android mobile operating system. It was first released as a developer preview on March 7, 2018, and ...
was released in June 2019.
Its latest security update was for August 2021.
Reception
The Nokia 3.1 received mixed reviews. Andrew Williams of ''
TechRadar
''TechRadar'' is an online publication owned by Future and focused on technology. It has editorial teams in the US, UK and Australia and provides news and reviews of tech products and gadgets. It was launched in 2007 and expanded to the US in ...
'' praised the phone’s design, screen quality and "effective
HDR" while criticising the "poor performance and storage".
References
External links
Official Nokia 3.1 website
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3.1
Mobile phones introduced in 2018
Discontinued smartphones