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Evan Blass the famous Mobile reporter tweeted the HD images of Nokia 7 Plus and the entry-level Nokia 1. What's interesting is that the Nokia 7 Plus will be an Android one Phone. In fact, the first Android One smartphone from Nokia. Nokia has been very Swift in delivering Android updates. Android one will help them deliver updates even faster. In addition, all the Nokia smartphones launching from now will support Project Treble . Nokia 1 is expected to run Android 8.1 Go edition (optimised for low memory devices).
Here are the images :
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Nokia 7 Plus (White)
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| Nokia 7 Plus (Black) |
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| Nokia 1 |
These devices will be launched globally during the MWC event , on February 25th. You can watch it live on Facebook. Here is the link to the live stream of Nokia's MWC event .
Specs of Nokia 7 plus :
- 6 inch 18:9 Full HD+ display
- Snapdragon 660
- 12MP + 13MP Dual-lens Zeiss camera with optical zoom
- 16MP front camera
- Bothie & OZO audio
- A new camera with Pro-mode
- Android one ( Android 8.1 Oreo)
Specs of Nokia 1 :
- 5 inch HD display
- Android 8.1 Oreo ( Go edition )
- 1 GB RAM
- Quad-core processor
- 8 GB Internal Storage ( expandable via Micro SD card )
Project Treble is Google’s latest attempt to deal with the fragmentation on the Android market. Treble allows a simpler update process for Android Oreo devices, that will allow manufacturers to update more device and offer more support.
Nokia 8, HMD’s flagship Android device, unfortunately cannot support Project Treble, because of hardware limitations. As Juho Sarvikas, HMD’s CPO describes on Twitter: To run Project Treble, you need to: 1) “ Adapt to the new Vendor Interface implementation” and 2)”Standalone Vendor partition to contain Vendor Implementation”. Nokia 8 lacks the standalone vendor partition for vendor implementations in ROM, that cannot be added via OTA updates, so I called it a “hardware limitation” in the title. Maybe that term isn’t 100% correct, but seems appropriate in this case.
For the end user, this doesn’t affect much. It is just that HMD’s engineers will have to work more to deliver new version of Android. Considering a 2-year promise of updates has been made, most customers, that care about updates, probably won’t care if HMD spends more hours than it could in updating the device. After all, updates will arrive for all Nokia smartphones.
The issue about Project Treble arose in Nokia Community support forums, where one of the moderators caused some confusion with her answers. The issue was later clarified, that lack of Treble on Nokia 8 is not Google’s, but HMD’s fault because a partition for vendor implementations wasn’t allocated in the first place. It’s a shame that HMD will have to spend more resources than necessary to update Nokia 8, because that “overtime” could’ve been spent on other modifications and improvements.
We also don’t know if other Nokia phones have the same partition problem as the Nokia 8, but considering that the 8 is a flagship, is more a yes than a no.
