HMD Global's Nokia X71 hand-drawn sketch with specifications leaked ahead of launch

HMD Global unveiled a number of smartphones at MWC 2019, including its flagship smartphone — the Nokia 9 PureView . That was February and Nokia’s certainly not done with the launches. The company is now working on launching a new mid-range smartphone which is a likely to be an upgrade over the Nokia 8.1 . The phone touted Nokia X71 , is expected to launch in Taiwan later today, but before Nokia does that, leaked sketches and specifications of the phone are already out. [caption id=“attachment_5739901” align=“alignnone” width=“1024”] The Nokia 8.1. Image: tech2/Omkar Patne[/caption] The Nokia X71 was spotted on Geekbench last week, revealing that the mid-range smartphone will be powered by a Snapdragon 660 chipset (which is strange since the Nokia 8.1 features a Snapdragon 710). A new hand-sketched image posted on Twitter brings forth another interesting fact about the phone.

The upcoming Nokia phone is expected to be HMD Global’s first smartphone with a punch-hole camera built into the phone’s 6.22-inch FHD+ LCD display. As spotted earlier on GeekBench, HMD Global has allegedly picked a Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 chipset to power the X71 and paired it with 6 GB of RAM. Like all other recent Nokia smartphones, the X71 is expected to run Android 9 Pie based Android One UI and also feature a triple rear camera setup. The phone is said to feature a 48 MP sensor similar to the Redmi Note 7 Pro or the Oppo F11 Pro . The camera will likely have Carl Zeiss branding and be paired with a 120-degree ultra-wide angle lens. Pricing details, as well as battery specifics, are yet to be known but we should have the official specifications in by the end of the day.