Last month at MWC 2018 event, HMD Global has launched Nokia 8 Sirocco flagship smartphone, successor of Nokia 8. Recently this handset went for preorder in European countries like and confirmed the release date as April. Now the company has officially expanded the availability of this Nokia 8 Sirocco (Non Android One) handset for Chinese market. Currently the JD.com popular online retailer in China has listed this handset and also accepting the preorder.

This retailer has confirmed the release date of this Nokia 8 Sirocco as April 3 for China. The launch price of this handset is 4699 yuan (Rs. 48,540 / $750 USD). Right now this retailer has listed the black color variant only.

Specs of Nokia 8 Sirocco:

Nokia 8 Sirocco features 5.5-inch OLED display with 2K screen resolution. However this handset has failed to sport 18:9 aspect ratio most trending mobile display technology. This handset will be pre-installed with latest Android 8.0 Oreo os. Performance wise, it houses Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 chipset (not the latest one) and 2.36 GHz octa core processor. Coming to memory, it comes with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of vast internal storage which uses UFS 2.1 technology for faster transfer rate.

Camera wise, it has dual main camera lens 12MP + 13MP at back and also has 5MP selfie camera at front. Other preloaded features are wifi, fingerprint sensor, IP67 dust & waterproof, NFC, Bluetooth, Type-C USB, 4G LTE and more. Talking about power, it packed with 3260 mAh battery and support Qi wireless charging technology.