A little while ago, reliable source @OnLeaks leaked some renders of the fothcoming Nokia 9, and now someone's taken the details from those renders and created this rather stunning preview video showing how the phone will most likely look when it arrvies.
"With onleaks leaking the Nokia 9 i felt like making a video of it. Now the Nokia 9 will probably be released somewhere in 2018," said the video's creator and uploader, a Youtuber called Concept Creator.
It certainly looks gorgeous.
The designer has rendered the Nokia 9 in black and silver, as well as the same deep blue colour we've seen on the Nokia 8 and other members of the Nokia Android family. The Nokia 8 and a few others have also had copper coloured variants, or at least handsets with copper accents, so hopefully we'll see this for the Nokia 9 too.
We can clearly see the 18:9 aspect ratio edge-to-edge display with curved edges wrapping around like the Galaxy S8 series. Also showcased is the rear-mounted fingerprint scanner, dual-sensor Carl Zeiss camera, and a Type-C USB port. As far as we can tell (although we don't get much of a look at the top edge) the phone doesn't have a 3.5mm headphone jack.
In terms of other specs and features, it's believed the Nokia 9 will mostly be the same as the Nokia 8, including a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor and the same camera hardware. However, it will feature IP certified waterproofing as an improvement on the Nokia 8, as well as a QHD resolution on the display.
Given @OnLeaks track record, the details used to create this render are likely spot on, so we expect this is how the phone will look. What do you think of it? Let us know in the comments below.
A new leaked image has appeared online showing the Nokia 9's back panel; it's not attached to the rest of the phone, but we can see the deep blue colouration, the curvature of the edges, and the cut-outs for the dual-camera sensor, fingerprint scanner, and another smaller hole which may be for an autofocus or LED-flash module.
Currently we don't know when the Nokia 9 will arrive on the market. What we do know, however, is that the Nokia 8 won't be arriving in the US at all.
A representatives of HMD Global has now confirmed that the Nokia 8 will NOT be released in the US market, unfortunately.
An email was forwared to NokiaPowerUser showing a discussion between a Nokia fan and the head of sales for HMD Global's US branch, Rex Fryhover.
Fryhover confirmed that HMD "will not be launching the Nokia 8 in the USA". He added that the reason for the decision is that the Nokia 8 is "not properly banded for the US", which we can only assume means in terms of connectivity bands for mobile data and telecoms.
The only logical conclusion we can come to is that the Nokia 9 was planned all along and HMD intends to release it in the US as the primary flagship there, skipping over the Nokia 8 entirely.
