Nokia held a “Brand Festival” event in China on July 10 via the popular JD.com e-retail platform. The site has released official data of the sale and it has been observed that 10 Nokia handsets sold every minute on average. Furthermore, 5 out of each 10 units sold was a Nokia X6. The Nokia X6 Polar White edition was also among the smartphones sold that day. The phone’s immense popularity in China certainly makes us look forward to its launch in India.

5 Out Of Every 10 Handset Sold Was Nokia X6

Nokia seems to be steadily gaining back its popularity with the approach of focusing on budget smartphones. During the Nokia Brand Festival sale, JD.com reported a traffic of more than 50,000 users per hour. HMD Global was successfully able to sell smartphones to more than 10,000 customers that day. But the most exciting part of the sale was that fact that half of the mobile phones sold on that day were comprised of Nokia X6 handsets. This includes the newly launched Polar White edition of the smartphone which offers 6GB of RAM along with 64GB of internal storage.

What Does This Mean For Indian Consumers?

This phone’s success is exciting news as we can only imagine how much a disruption the phone will cause when it launches in India. The Nokia X6 is reportedly going to make its international debut on July 19. This might still not be when the phone makes it way to this country, and we might have to wait a bit longer.

The Nokia X5 was supposed to launch in China today, but the event was put on hold until further notice due to some event venue issue. It is being assumed that HMD Global could release both the Nokia X5 and Nokia X6 together in India as part of a refreshed strategy. We can only hope that the company doesn’t make us wait too long and releases the phones in India in the coming months.

Nokia X6: Specifications, Features

The Nokia X6 boasts a 5.8-inch IPS LCD screen with a display resolution of 2280 × 1080 and a 19:9 aspect ratio. This is the first phone by the company to feature a notch at the top of the display. This ensured the display could be starched out far enough to achieve close to an 85% screen-to-body ratio. The phone is built with premium glass construction on both sides and features a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner. Powering this mid-range handset is a Snapdragon 636 octa-core chipset paired with an Adreno 509 GPU. Out-of-the-box, the phone comes Android 8.1 Oreo which offers a stock Android experience without any unnecessary customisations on top.

The phone does offer a 3.5 mm headphone jack, so no worries there. For imaging, the phone offers a 16MP+ 5MP camera setup at the back, while the front notch holds a 16MP selfie shooter. All the usual connectivity options can be found such as 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth v5.0, GPS/ A-GPS and so on. Fueling the handset is a fully capable 3060mAh battery which has support for Quick Charge 3.0. Nokia has also provided a USB Type-C port on this phone. You can expect to achieve a 50 percent charge on this phone by charging it up for just 30 minutes.

Nokia X6: Expected Price in India

In total, there are three storage variants offered for the Nokia X6. The first has 4GB of RAM along with 32GB of internal memory and is priced at CNY 1,299 (approx. Rs.13,400). The next option comprises of a 4GB RAM + 64GB storage combo which sells for CNY 1,499 (roughly Rs.15,500). The third is the Polar White colour variant with a 6GB RAM + 64GB storage combo which is priced at CNY 1,699 (Rs.17,500 approx.). The Indian price is likely to be slightly higher than this if the phone ever makes it way here.



