Finnish company HMD Global has taken significant strides towards reviving the Nokia brand. The company continues its efforts with the Nokia 7 Plus—the bigger and more powerful sibling of the Nokia 7.
The 7 Plus’ Geekbench results were recently leaked revealing its potential power. According to Forbe s contributor Ewan Spence, the Nokia 7 Plus will most likely be a mid-tier phone , fitting between the top-tier Nokia 9 and the Nokia 1.
Despite its mid-tier placement in the Nokia line-up, the 7 Plus still received impressive scores from Geekbench . It received a single-core score of 1636 and a multi-core score of 5902 as of January 26, 2018.
Nokia 7 Plus Specs
Based on the Nokia 7’s specs—as per GSM Arena —HMD Global gave the 7 Plus some serious upgrades. The 7 Plus’ sibling came out late last year in October with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 630 chipset, running Android Nougat.
Geekbench notes that the mid-range phone runs on Android 8.0 Oreo with an SDM660 motherboard and 3720MB of memory. A Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 clocked at 1.84 GHz powers the upcoming Nokia device. The model Geekbench tested had 4GB of RAM, but the 7 Plus may come in another variant. Its predecessor, the Nokia 7, had 4GB and 6GB of RAM models.
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Nokia 7 Plus Availability
The Nokia 7 sold out in minutes after its release in China in October 2017, reported Gadgets NDTV . Forbes notes that HMD Global made the phone exclusive to China. HMD global could do the same with the Nokia 7 Plus.
Although, there does seem to be high demand for Nokia phones abroad based on an r/Android thread about the Nokia 7 Plus on Reddit . Unfortunately, there seems to be a limited supply of Nokia phones in other countries.
“…I’m willing to pay up to 350 in France for that,” commented u/Zenargue after reading the Geekbench scores for the Nokia 7 Plus shared on r/Android.
“Sadly, it looks like HMD’s strategy is centered on China. Here in Greece the Nokia 6 had terrible availability for a few months after it launched and even today you can only find the black 3/32GB model officially,” shared u/ferongr.
However, there are rumors that HMD Global will release the Nokia 7 in the United States with an upgraded CPU running Android Oreo. If the Nokia 7 does well in the U.S. market, HMD Global may consider releasing the 7 Plus there as well.
Phone Arena speculates that the Finnish company will probably tweak some features of the Nokia 7 before releasing it in the U.S. to give it a competitive edge. HMD Global might do the same for the 7 Plus if it is released worldwide.
HMD Global is expected to unveil the Nokia 7 Plus at the Mobile World Conference on February 25 this year. There has been no confirmation on when the mid-range phone will be available on the market, at least for now.
