Andrew Bonwick
Vice President of Product Development at Relm Insurance
Madhav Sheth
CEO of Ai+ Smartphone
Varun Kashyap & Sridevi Reddy
Co-Founders, Zithara.ai
Transforming Indian Offline Retail and Customer Engagement Using AI

Nokia seems to readying themselves for making a solid comeback on the smartphone front this year. At MWC 2018, HMD Global presented a lot of interesting Nokia phones which are set to launch this year. These included the Nokia 6 (2018), the Nokia 1 Android Go smartphone, the Nokia 7 Plus and the flagship Nokia 8 Sirocco. However, the phone that really caught our attention was the Nokia 7 Plus. Which lies in the mid-range price and is said to be a good phone which fills up the place between the budget Nokia 6 and the flagship Nokia 8 in just the right way. The speculations are in place that this device might come out in India in March 2018 or somewhere in the second quarter of the year.

This information comes after the launch of the phone in China where it is supposedly being said that the phone went out of stock after only a few minutes of being online because of high demands. We noticed that the Nokia 7 Plus debuted at the price of CNY 2,300 which comes to be somewhere around the price range of Rs 23,698 which is the price quoted for the 4GB/64GB internal storage model and the other variant which runs on 6GB/64GB internal storage is said to be selling for Rs 25,700. This gives us a pretty solid hint about the pricing of the phone in India, where it’s going to hover around Rs 23,000 for the 4GB model and around Rs 25,000 for the 6GB model.
It was noteworthy that the Chinese audience received the phone with great excitement and caused it to go out of stock in a matter of minutes. HMD Global has been launching its smartphones in India at the same prices of the Chinese market, so we can assume the same with the Nokia 7 Plus. However, we haven’t seen a single Snapdragon 660 SoC smartphone launching in India, and it remains unknown if Qualcomm wants to bring that chipset to the Indian market.