Yesterday, HMD Global took a break from announcing smartphones and unveiled the Nokia 106 feature phone. Today, it has announced that it will unveil a new smartphone on December 5 in Dubai.

The poster for the event shows the phone in three different color variants, one even has a copper-colored line running around the frame. Only a bit of the device is visible but if you zoom in close, you can see the device has a notch.

So what phone is this likely to be? Seeing as Nokia phones with a notch belong to the X-series/Plus series (excluding the Nokia 3.1 Plus) our guess is this phone will also have a Plus in its name. There are reports of a Nokia 2.1 Plus in development, so we won’t be surprised if this is the device.

The Nokia 2.1 has a 5.5-inch HD display and runs Android 8.1 Oreo (Go Edition). It has stereo front-facing speakers, a Snapdragon 425 processor, 1GB of RAM and 8GB of expandable storage. It also packs a 4,000mAh battery, an 8MP rear camera, and a 5MP front-facing camera. The Nokia 2.1 Plus may retain some of these specs.

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FCC documents have revealed the Nokia 2.1 Plus has 1GB of RAM and 16GB of storage. It may keep the battery capacity of the non-plus variant which is more than sufficient even if the screen ends up being bigger than 5.5-inches.

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Recently, a Nokia phone with model number TA-1136 was spotted at Bluetooth SIG. Since it carries support for Bluetooth 5.0, it was speculated that it could be the international version of the Nokia X7 smartphone. The TA-1136 model has also received approval from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the U.S. through which some of its key specs have revealed. The specs of the TA-1136 that have surfaced through its FCC listings reveal that it could be the upcoming Nokia 2.1 Plus smartphone.

The FCC documents reveal that the Nokia TA-1136 has 1 GB of RAM and it includes an internal storage of 16 GB. The FCC listings also reveal that it is electronically same as the Nokia 2.1 variant that has a model number of TA-1084. The Nokia 2.1 that was announced in May this year has 8 GB of ROM. Hence, the TA-1136 that includes double the storage of Nokia 2.1 may hit the market with Nokia2.1 Plus moniker.

As far as specs are concerned, the FCC documents do not contain much information on it. The only additional details that have been found in the FCC listing of the TA-1136 is that it carries support for 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi connectivity. So, there is no dual-band 5GHz Wi-Fi support on the device. HMD Global will be disabling some of the network bands on the device because of which it won’t be available in the U.S.

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The Nokia 2.1 runs on Android Go version of Android 8.1 Oreo OS. It features a 5.5-inch display that carries support for HD resolution of 720 x 1480 pixels. The modest Snapdragon 425 chipset that includes 1.4 GHz quad-core processor is the driving force of the smartphone.

The handset is fitted with a front-facing camera of 5-megapixel and a rear shooter of 8-megapixel. Apart from 8 GB of internal storage, the device offers additional space through microSD card slot. It is packed with a 4,000mAh capacity battery.

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