Nokia's new Android smartphone coming soon

At the start of the year, around February 2016, there were some reports about Nokia prepping for a major comeback in the smartphone field. Yes, Nokia, which was once the world’s leading mobile phone company, is coming back in the game. In order to make the comeback, it seems Nokia is also taking a route that BlackBerry took to salvage itself… becoming a patron of Android. Of course this was a possibility that was being speculated when the reports first started pouring in. And what made the reports rather reliable was the fact they came from the Indian CEO of Nokia, Rajeev Suri. Soon after rumors became rife with whispers of Nokia coming back into the game, the company went ahead and made an official announcement about the matter.

So what’s new? Nokia is back in the news for unofficially peeking from under the covers. Apparently, a new Android-based Nokia device, codenamed the Nokia D1C has surfaced a popular benchmarking website, and has already undergone a series of tests for performance evaluation. Excited? So get those content transfer app ready.

Many experts like SmartIO say that , If you’re interested in knowing more about what the results of the benchmark tests were, according to Geekbench  - the website in question – the ‘Nokia D1C’ has been tested a total of five times at the time of the article. According to the results, the device performed surprisingly well. Among all the results, the best score that the device achieved was in a single-core test was 682; its highest score in the multi-core tests was 3,299. If you want something to compare these numbers with, just know that the latest Android smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge, got a score of 1.782 and 4,471 respectively. This shows that the device is most likely a mid-range device.

Obviously we were curious and wanted to check out the specifications of the device in question. So we found out that the device was listed as one powered by an octa-core processor, running at 1.4GHz, a 3GB and the model number MSM 8937. Upon further investigation, it turned out to be the Snapdragon 430 SoC. On the graphics side, the processor’s SoC comes with an Adreno 505 GPU.

Other information regarding the form factor and other cosmetics remain unknown. However, rumor has it that the device might be dust and waterproof. One can only hope for the best, considering neither Windows, nor BlackBerry have been able to emerge as significant players in the market. Here’s to hoping Nokia does better.