Last updated on January 25, 2016

Nokia has undoubtedly gained a place in each and every of our hearts one way or the other, in times past or present – particularly because of the fact that they once tagged with the much-coveted title of being the world’s no.1 mobile phone manufacturer.

We witnessed them lease their sales of devices and business services to Microsoft a few years back and the law that governs this deal restricted them from making any phones of their own as they would indirectly compete with the Redmond Giant.

A deal Nokia indeed benefitted from, but it eventually cost them their highly esteemed reputation to some extent nonetheless. The deal however came to an end on the 31st of December 2015, and we are all quite eager to see what Nokia will bring back to the table in 2016.

The possibility of Nokia returning to the market is at its peak, but the likelihood of them returning with a Windows based phone is low. Therefore, it is speculated whether that we’d see them adopt the Android OS for their devices.

New renders and leaked images of Nokia’s supposed new entry level smartphone recently surfaced on Baidu – pictured above and below.

The current leaks are void of the prototype logo (that was visible in previous leaks) on the back which to some extent increases credibility to the leaks and the rumors about it debuting sooner than earlier anticipated.

The phone’s design is quite familiar to that of the HTC M8 and also seems to have taken cues from Apple’s iPhone 6 with the antenna bands at the back.

There appear to be two versions of the device and at least one of them will reportedly come powered with an MT6580 chipset together with a Mali-400 GPU chip and a memory configuration of 2GB RAM and 16GB ROM.

Sources behind the leaks also have it that the device will set you back a modest $75 when it finally launches. That is as much as we know for now and we’ll bring you more updates as soon as we have them.

What do you guys think of Nokia’s entry level attempt, if leaks are to be believed? It appears that the company may want to cash in on the low-range smartphone market, a domain it still thrives in with its low-end phones.