Nokia, expected to launch Nokia 9 with 5.5 inch OLED

By Hana Oh (hanaoh@ubiresearch.com)

It is expected that OLED will be applied to Nokia’s next flagship smartphone model ‘Nokia 9’. GSMARENA released the specification of the Nokia 9, citing the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) document. According to GSMARENA, it is equipped with LG Display’s 5.5-inch OLED display, with a resolution of 1440 x 2560 and an aspect ratio of 16: 9. The previous version, Nokia 8, has a 5.3-inch IPS LCD.

<Image of Nokia 9, Source: gsmarena.com>

In addition, the Nokia 9 has a dual camera with 12 million pixels and 13 million pixels on the back, and a 5-megapixel camera on the front. The storage capacity is 128GB, the chipset is Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 and the battery capacity is 3,250mAh. Price and release date are not yet decided.

<Key specification of Nokia 9, Source: FCC>

This is not the first time Nokia has launched an OLED-enabled mobile device. Nokia launched the X7-00 with 4-inch OLED in June 2011, the T7 with 3.5-inch OLED in the third quarter and the Lumia 800 with 3.7-inch OLED in November The company has launched a number of OLED-enabled mobile devices in 2011.

In the meantime, Nokia 9, which will be released soon, will be equipped with full screen curved display and 3D cover glass just like Samsung Galaxy S8 series as showed from the rendering image leaked from Baidu, China in September.