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Edit：RON AMADEO 2017-1-18
Nokia is getting back into the smartphone business.
A company called "HMD," which includes a number of old-guard Nokia employees, has emerged to resurrect the brand from the ashes of the Microsoft acquisition. Recently the company announced its new phone: the "Nokia 6." It runs "the latest version" of Android Nougat (so 7.1.1?), it's milled out of a single block of aluminum, and it has a 5.5-inch "HD" screen. The bad news is that is has a Snapdragon 430 SoC and is exclusive to China. But hey, this looks like a good first step and serves as a peek into the future of the new Nokia.
The video on Nokia.com shows a Micro USB 2.0 port, which is disappointing in 2017. It also shows a fingerprint reader/home button combo and a bottom-firing speaker. There is definitely some heavy Android skinning present in the video, but it's unclear if this is for China only or something that we'll see on Nokia's entire lineup.
The tag line at Nokia.com calls the Nokia 6 "The first Nokia smartphone powered by Android." HMD might want to brush up on a little Nokia history, though, since this is more like the third Nokia Android phone. The first Nokia Android phones were the "X" line released in February 2014. The technically-still-independent company took an AOSP build and made the UI look a lot like Windows Phone, replacing the Google services with Microsoft ones and creating a "Nokia Store" for apps. A few months later, now under Microsoft rule, Nokia released another Android phone called the "Nokia X2." This took the same Microsoft-y AOSP concept and gave it some updated specs.
HMD's press release says the Nokia 6 "marks the first step for the Nokia brand into Android smartphones with more to come in H1 2017." Hopefully that means we'll see a US-bound flagship model, which we might hear about at Mobile World Congress, where HMD is an exhibitor.
from：www.google.com