Looks like Nokia is going full steam ahead offering unrivalled 5G roaming on their Nokia 8.3 smartphone.
Taken from Engadget … HMD Global is jumping into the 5G wars. The Finnish company, which has been making Nokia-branded smartphones since 2016, claims to have made “the first global flagship smartphone to date.” What on earth does that mean? Well, by “global,” the company is referring to all of the 5G networks currently in operation around the world. Unlike most Android flagships, which have scattershot support and compatibility, the new Nokia 8.3 5G should be a roaming powerhouse that works everywhere, and on every network. According to HMD Global, the phone will also be forward compatible with 5G technology “deployed later in 2020, and onwards.”
“We are supporting the highest number of 5G new radio bands, by far, that you’ve ever seen in a single design, to date,” Juho Sarvikas, chief product officer at HMD Global boasted. It’s a big claim that we’ll have to verify ourselves. If the company can deliver, though, it could make the phone a tempting choice for business folk and anyone else who travels frequently.
The phone uses a Snapdragon 765G processor and is the first, according to Sarvikas, to ship with Qualcomm’s 5G RF (radio frequency) front end module. “With this solution, we have 40 RF components condensed into a single integrated module, and it gives the 8.3 5G the best industry-leading performance on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G platform,” he said.
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