MWC 2019: Nokia Flagship Smartphone Has 5 Cameras

MWC 2019: Nokia Flagship Smartphone Has 5 Cameras
NokiaTechnology companies think the way to take on a stagnating smartphone market is to build devices that fold in half, according to Bloomberg.

Technology companies think the way to take on a stagnating smartphone market is to build devices that fold in half, according to Bloomberg. Nokia has a different idea: make a phone with five cameras on the back.

HMD, which produces consumer products under the Nokia name, showed off the Nokia 9 PureView at MWC19 in Barcelona. It doesn’t bend in half, and it doesn’t have next-generation 5G mobile connectivity, but HMD CEOr Florian Seiche said there’s a big market still for this kind of phone. “It’s targeted at enthusiast photographers,“ Seiche said in an interview on the sidelines of the tech conference, and added that it would promote the phone across Europe, the U.S., and China.

Premium device makers have been trying to develop ways to excite consumers into upgrading their phones more frequently, but high prices, minimal aesthetic differentiation between models, as well as strong competition from Chinese manufacturers, have made this difficult over the past year. Seiche wouldn’t say whether the company was preparing a model with 5G connectivity, but said HMD was collaborating with Qualcomm on 5G technologies.

The Nokia 9 runs on Google’s Android software and uses a Qualcomm-made processor. But crucially in a market of expensive high-end devices, it costs about $699.