Nokia 7 Plus with Snapdragon 660 spotted on Geekbench; Tipped for MWC Launch

HMD Global has launched a slew of Nokia-branded smartphones ever since the return of the famed Finnish brand in the marketplace last twelvemonth. One of those, the Nokia 7, is now reportedly all prepare to get a bigger variant that could possibly be unveiled at the upcoming MWC trade bear witness in Barcelona next calendar month. While in that location's no word on the subject from either Nokia or HMD Global, a device, named 'HMD Global Nokia vii plus', has now been spotted on benchmarking site Geekbench, revealing a few of its key details.

According to Geekbench, the Nokia seven Plus volition exist powered by Snapdragon 660 SoC from Qualcomm, and offer 4 GB of RAM. It is also running Android 8.0 Oreo out-of-the-box, although whether the terminal SKUs run Android eight.ane remains to be seen. Every bit can be seen from the accompanying image, the device scores 1636 in the single-cadre examination and 5902 in the multi-core exam.

Nokia 7 Plus with Snapdragon 660 Spotted on Geekbench; Tipped for MWC Launch

As is the case with Geekbench listings, we don't become whatever info on the device's screen-size, although, the 'Plus' moniker leads us to believe that it will have a screen that'due south at least somewhat larger than the relatively-small v.two-inch display on the original Nokia 7.

It will likewise be interesting to see whether the company jumps on the 18:9 bandwagon or sticks to the sometime sixteen:9 aspect ratio that immediately makes any new smartphone look ancient in this twenty-four hours and age. Either way, with no more info forthcoming for at present, we'll merely take to look a trivial longer to get a improve idea well-nigh how this new device volition turn out in terms of its hardware specs and software features.

Meanwhile, if the Nokia vii Plus is, indeed, launched at the MWC 2018, it will be i of several Nokia handsets that are expected to be unveiled at the event, given that the company is tipped to announce its Nokia ix flagship there as well, alongside the Nokia 6 (2018 model) and the entry-level Nokia 1 with Android Go.