Update: After its launch on April 4, the Nokia 8 Sirocco will go on sale from April 30. HMD Global’s new flagship phone comes with a premium metal and glass design. The phone is also part of the Android One program. Which should it make it popular, especially for a phone that the company claims is ‘for the fans’. They stated that the Nokia 8 Sirocco is the flagship phone that their loyal customers have been requesting. It’s a step away from the stock phones that Nokia Mobiles normally manufactures, towards a more high-end variant that pushes the conventional features available in other smartphones. It comes stocked with all the top-shelf specifications, but that also means that it has a top-shelf price. Albeit, the Nokia 8 Sirocco still marks a significant move forward for the company. Design What’s fascinating about the Nokia 8 Sirocco is how the body of the device is covered in 95 percent vacuum molded Gorilla Glass th...
Two years ago, Apple released the $399 (now $349) iPhone SE , an update to the iPhone 5 and 5s that kept the smaller, 4-inch iPhone size alive. On several occasions, Apple has mentioned that the iPhone SE — appealing not just to fans of small phones but also to those on tight budgets — has sold better than the company initially expected. It's a happy story about Apple discovering new life in an old design, but will it have a happy ending? The A9 processor powering the iPhone SE is now 30 months old. It's about time for an iPhone SE replacement to arrive, but will it happen? And if so, what aspects of the phone will Apple upgrade? I believe in the future of the iPhone SE, but I believed in the 4-inch size before that phone ever existed. The 4-inch screen design of the iPhone 5 and iPhone 5s appealed to a lot of people who didn't care for the trend of increasingly large phone screens. In the year before the announcement of the iPhone SE — keep in ...