Nokia 3 And Nokia 5 Officially Launched In South Africa, Price Starts At R2199

After launching Legendary Nokia 3310 feature phone in South Africa, now the HMD Global’s has officially launched much-awaited Nokia 3 and Nokia 5 smartphone in South Africa . Both the Nokia 3 and Nokia 5 has a stunning new designed to deliver an outstanding experience with unprecedented value.

Talking about the pricing segment, the Nokia 3 smartphone will be available in South Africa at the price tag of R 2199 and Nokia 5 high-end flsgahip has been priced at R 2999 . A new range of accessories perfectly tailored to suit the Nokia smartphone will also be available – Which including an in-car charger case and wall charger.

HMD Globa’s partnered with Nokia brand has revealed Nokia 3 and Nokia 5 at Mobile World Congress 2017 in Barcelona (Spain) and the company claims that , it would be running on a “pure” version of Android.

Much-anticiapted Nokia 5 flagship will be go sale in South Africa through Vodacom reseller Cellucity and MTN listing deals for the device . Cellucity listed the following 24-month contracts for the Nokia 5 officail in South Africa Country – Vodacom uChoose Flexi 200 – R229 per month , Vodacom Smart Top Up S+ – R259 per month , Vodacom Smart Top Up M+ – R359 per month . Whereas , MTN said it will offer the Nokia 5 at this price , My MTNChoice Flexi R200 – R249 per month , Cash deal – R2,999.

HMD Global’s said that:

“In today’s cash-strapped times, where people aren’t willing to compromise on quality, design, or delivery, the Nokia 3 is the perfect mobile companion for value-conscious consumers”.

Now heading to the Nokia 3 smartphone specifications, it featuring polycarbonate body and metallic frame on the sides of the phone . It sports a 5.0-inch HD IPS LCD capacitive Touchscreen display of a screen resolution 1280 x 720 pixels at 294 ppi pixel density with 67.3% screen-to-body ratio and is protected by 2.5D Corning Gorilla Glass protection . Inside the shells, the device is powered by 1.4 GHz Mediatek MT6737 Cortex-A53 Quad core chipset processor coupled with Mali-T720MP2 . The device is packaging with 2 GB of RAM, 16 GB of internal storage capacity and can be expandable memory up to 128GB through microSD card slot.

On the software front, the Nokia 3 smartphone is running on Android v7.0 Nougat operating system out of the box and is fuelled by powerful 2,650 mAH Built-in Li-Ion battery . For the optics department, the smartphone is equipped with 8-megapixel rear camera comes with f/2.0 aperture lens, LED Flash , Autofocus and same 8-megapixel front facing selfie sensor with Autofocus, f/2.0 aperture lens to capture decent selfies and video callings as well . Connectivity options on this Nokia 3 phone are as WiFi 802.11 b/g/n , Bluetooth v4.0 , GPS with A-GPS , 3.5 mm headphone jack, FM Radio , Dual SIM , 4G LTE support . It’s measurement of this handset be 143.4 x 71.4 x 8.48 mm.

Coming to the second smartphone Nokia 5, this handset is made up crafted out of a single solid block of 6000-series aluminum and it flaunts a 5.2-inch HD IPS capacitive Touchscreen display of a screen resolution 1280 x 720 pixels with 500 nits brightness, 282 ppi pixel density and 68.7% screen-to-body ratio . The screen of this Nokia 5 handset is also protected by 2.5D Corning Gorilla Glass protection . Underneath, the device is powered by 1.4 GHz Qualcomm MSM8937 Snapdragon 430 octa core chipset processor coupled with Adreno 502 Graphics unit . The device comes with 2 GB of RAM, 16 GB of onboard storage capacity and can be expandable memory up to 128GB through dedicated slot to store a large number of stuffs.

The Nokia 5 smartphone is running on latest Android v7.1.1 Nougat operating system and is powered by powerful 3,000 mAH Non-removable Li-Ion battery . On the imaging front, the Nokia 5 smartphone is take care by 13-megapixel primary rear camera comes with f/2.0 aperture lens , dual-LED (dual tone) flash , phase detection autofocus , 1/3″ sensor size , 1.12 µm pixel size , Geo-tagging , Touch focus , face/smile detection , HDR mode to capturing brilliant photos and images . Up the front, it bears a 8-megapixel secondary camera comes with f/2.0 aperture lens , 1.12 µm pixel size to capturing good selfies and for video calling support . Connectivity options on this phone are as Wifi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth v4.1 , Micro-USB 2.0 , NFC , 3.5 mm headphone jack , Dual SIM, 4G LTE Support . It’s physical measurement be be 149.7 x 72.5 x 8.05 mm.