Nokia G50 launched: Sub £200 5G phone with a big battery

(Pocket-lint) - HMD Global has unveiled the latest successful its lineup of affordable Android smartphones successful its G-series family, bringing 5G and a 5000mAh artillery successful a telephone that costs conscionable nether £200. 

It's called the Nokia G50 and is designed to beryllium aboriginal impervious successful much ways than one. Part of that future-proofing is the 5G capabilities of the phone, the different is being successful the Android One program. 

Both combined means you'll get entree to the faster web speeds erstwhile you're successful a 5G area, while Android One ensures you should get regular information and bundle updates for 2 years. 

Unlike the apical tier flagship phones, the G50 is much astir being a applicable each time instrumentality for those connected a budget. That means you get convenient features similar a 3.5mm headphone port, a bloat-free mentation of Android, and a artillery that tin past 2 days connected a afloat charge.

Other specs see a ample 6.82-inch LCD show connected the beforehand with a tiny v-shaped notch cutout astatine the top, positive a carnal fingerprint scanner that's built into the powerfulness fastener connected the right. 

The telephone is powered by the Snapdragon 480 processor, which ships alongside either 4GB oregon 6GB of RAM and either 64GB oregon 128GB storage. You tin grow that excessively if you want, utilizing the microSD paper tray. 

It features a triple camera strategy connected the back, housed successful a classical Nokia-esque circular protrusion containing a 48-megapixel primary, 8-megapixel ultrawide and 2-megapixel extent sensor. 

The Nokia G50 launches successful the UK contiguous successful 2 colours: Ocean Blue and Midnight Sun, and volition outgo £199 for the 4GB/64GB variant. 

Writing by Cam Bunton. Originally published connected 22 September 2021.