Nokia-focused publication NokiaMob is reporting that Mike Wang, president of joint management at Nokia China, has confirmed that the company will announce a couple of new smartphones and tablets by the end of the year.

The publication reports that Wang confirmed to Chinese press that three to four Android tablets and smartphones would actually be announced. As already mentioned, this announcement is expected to take place by the end of the year, but an actual launch may not happen until early 2017.

Two of the mentioned smartphones said to be flagship handsets could actually be running Android 7.0 Nougat, the report says. In addition to that, they should sport a 5.2- and 5.5-inch OLED screen.

As far as specifications go, we’re looking at a Snapdragon 820 processor, a mighty 22.6-megapixel graphene camera, a water and dust proof metal body and the aforementioned Android 7.0 Nougat under a Nokia launcher.

This rumor follows along with what we’ve already heard, that Nokia could be dabbling with launching some Nougat-flavored smartphones.

Keep in mind that all of this is happening under HMD Global, a company that purchased the Nokia brand from Microsoft earlier this year. We weren’t sure when we’d see the first Nokia-branded smartphones after that, as there’s a lot of paperwork and politics that come with a deal like that; however, if this rumor turns out to be true, we could see a Nokia-branded smartphone on the market as early as January next year.

source: The Paper

via: NokiaMob