Nokia 7 Plus With Dual Rear Cameras, 18:9 Display Launched in India: Price, Specifications

Nokia 7 Plus, which was announced at MWC 2018 in February, has been launched in India by HMD Global. The mid-range Android One smartphone is an updated version of last year's Nokia 7 and comes with a Zeiss-branded dual rear camera setup with 2X optical zoom. It is made from a single block of series 6000 aluminium and has a 6-inch 18:9 display that flows from edge-to-edge. The smartphone also offers face unlock and artificial intelligence features like the ability to add masks to selfies. At the launch event in New Delhi, HMD Global also announced the launch of the Nokia Mobile Shop - the company's online store for India.

Nokia 7 Plus price in India, launch offers

The Nokia 7 Plus price in India has been set at Rs. 25,999 and is set to go on sale in India from April 30 onwards, with pre-bookings starting from April 20. It will be available via Amazon India, the Nokia Mobile Shop, and select mobile outlets, in Black/ Copper and White/ Copper colour variants. The company has promised special cashback offers for the Nokia 6 (2018), but has not detailed these launch offers as yet. At this price range, it competes with the Honor View 10, Moto Z2 Play and Honor 8 Pro in India.

Nokia 7 Plus specifications

The Nokia 7 Plus is a dual-SIM (Nano) smartphone in India. It runs Android 8.1 Oreo out-of-the-box and is an Android One smartphone which entails no skins and customisations from Nokia's end as well as swift updates. The smartphone comes with a 6-inch full-HD+ (1080x2160) IPS LCD display with an 18:9 aspect ratio, Corning Gorilla Glass and a peak brightness rating of 500-nits. It is powered by the octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 SoC paired with 4GB of LPDDR4 RAM.

There is a dual camera setup at the back capable of 2X optical zoom with a dual-tone LED flash and Zeiss optics. The primary 12-megapixel wide-angle sensor has an aperture of f/1.75 and a pixel size of 1.4 microns. The secondary 13-megapixel sensor has an aperture of f/1.75 and a pixel size of 1 microns. On the front, the Nokia 7 Plus has a 16-megapixel fixed focus camera with an f/2.0 aperture, 1-micron pixels and Zeiss optics.

The Nokia 7 Plus has 64GB of internal storage which can be expanded via a microSD card (up to 256GB). On the connectivity front, it supports 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11ac, Bluetooth v5.0, GPS/ A-GPS, NFC, USB Type-C (2.0), and a 3.5mm audio jack. It also comes with a myriad of sensors on board such as an accelerometer, ambient light sensor, digital compass, gyroscope, proximity sensor, and a rear-facing fingerprint sensor.

The smartphone measures 158.38x75.64x7.99mm and has a 3,800mAh battery with fast charging that HMD Global claims can deliver a standby time of 723 hours and a talk time of up to 19 hours