Today, HMD Global has launched the Nokia 1.3 in the United
States. The smartphone is now available for pre-order through Amazon and
B&H and is priced at $99. It comes in two colors — Cyan and Charcoal and
the company says that it start shipping the device from next week.
The Nokia 1.3 comes with a 3D
nano-textured polycarbonate back while the front is covered in glass. The phone
has a waterdrop notch in the display with pretty thick bezels which we can’t
complaint about this price point.
Coming to the specifications, the
smartphone features a 5.71-inch HD+ display offering 400 nits brightness. Under
the hood, the device is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 215 quad-core
chipset, coupled with 1GB of RAM. It comes packed with 16GB of internal storage
and there’s also microSD card slot for expanding the storage capacity up to
400GB. In the camera department, there’s an 8-megapixel sensor on the back.
On the front side, the device has a
5-megapixel snapper for taking selfies. The smartphone comes with a new camera
app called Camera Go which Google says is built to be fast, take beautiful
photos and brings features like Portrait Mode to entry-level smartphones.
The device also comes with a dedicated
Google Assistant button, a 3.5mm audio jack, FM radio, Bluetooth 4.2, LTE, and
2.4GHz Wi-Fi. It runs Android 10 (Go Edition) and will be updated to Android 11
(Go Edition). The phone is powered by a 3,000mAh battery which is claimed to
offer more than a day of usage on a single charge.
