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Re:Living with a best-selling Indian phone for 10 days by nl on Saturday July 14, 2018 @03:56AM (#17529333)
I recently bought a Nokia 3 for testing stuff on. It's $179 outright in Australia (so US$150ish) and I've been pretty impressed.

It's slow, but usable. Pure Android, and ok camera, screen and build quality.

(My daily phone is a Pixel, and I have had iPhones in the past to compare)

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Re:Living with a best-selling Indian phone for 10 days by danieldk on Saturday July 14, 2018 @04:13AM (#17529364)
They released the 3.1 in May and it seems that they bumped up the specs quite a bit (4 to 8 core, 2 to 3GB RAM, 32GB storage).

https://www.phonearena.com/phones/compare/Nokia-3.1,Nokia-3/...

Last week I bought a Nokia 6.1 and it is pretty fast. I have been an iPhone user since 2009 (with an Android excursion 2013-2015). But my beloved 64GB iPhone SE had water damage after a bike ride through the rain last week. And I didn't want to buy a new iPhone just ~2 months before the keynote. I'll see after the keynote whether I'll buy a/the new iPhone or whether the Nokia is good enough.

At any rate, I am very impressed what they are doing. I hope they stay on this course. I think there is a place for phones with pure Android and regular updates, but that is cheaper than the Pixel line. Basically the void that Nexus left.

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