Nokia appreciates the Snapdragon 480: news coming with the Plus variant
Nokia would be ready to bring to market several cheap 5G smartphones. They would belong to the X and G series, and second nokiapoweruser.com “many of them” they could be powered by the Snapdragon 480 Plus, a low-end Qualcomm chip but capable of hooking up to 5G networks.
The sources of the portal have reported summary information, and it is still impossible to reconstruct a precise picture that much. Some of the upcoming Nokia smartphones in the X range would come with a 120 Hz display and in spite of the placement of the chip they could also be those with Snapdragon 480+, which data sheet in hand supports screens with maximum resolution Full HD and refresh rate at 120 Hz.
According to sources, the 120 Hz display would feature both some novelties of the Nokia X range than those of Nokia G range. The Finnish manufacturer already uses the Snapdragon 480 series on Nokia G300, X10, X20, XR20, G50 and X100. It seems that the “love story” is destined to continue with its evolution the Snapdragon 480 Plus which in October last year updated the project with 200 MHz more clock speed (2.2 GHz) and Bluetooth 5.2 instead of 5.1.
It’s a low-end chip that may not thrill fans, especially for the products premium with the Nokia logo on the back will need wait for presumably not a little. In March Adam Ferguson, Global Head of Product Marketing of HMD Global, had said that “Making a $ 800 phone doesn’t make sense to us at the moment. HMD doesn’t want to be involved in fierce competition with other manufacturers.”.
Nokia would therefore aim to win over customers with a weapon as fascinating as that of the technical specifications: the price price list, which with a chip like the Snapdragon 480+ it is possible to keep low.
