Nokia 3 to receive Android 8.0 Oreo update; will skip on Android 7.1.2 Nougat

Just over a week ago, HMD Global announced its much-awaited Android 8.0 Oreo update for its flagship Nokia 8 smartphone. Now, there’s news about the Nokia 3 receiving the update soon and it comes straight from brand’s chief product officer, Hugo Sarvikas.

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Seems that Nokia parent HMD Global wants to make the best of the Android Oreo exclusivity while others have yet to make the move. Android 8.0 Oreo , which is barely present on a handful of smartphones is indeed makes for a good selling point for the brand which promises to deliver the fastest Android firmware updates.

While it may sound a bit odd, getting the latest Android software on a smartphone is something that is only reserved for Google’s flagship Pixel 2 and 2 XL devices, and currently the Sony Xperia XZ1.

So if you are a smartphone maker and your handset ships with the latest Android software update (which it is supposed to be doing to begin with), you could attract a lot more customers.

Keeping this in mind, Hugo Sarvikas tweeted out that HMD is planning to issue the Android 8.0 Oreo update to the Nokia 3 directly. The handset which ships with Android 7.1.1 Nougat on board, will get a double promotion of sorts and switch to Google’s latest and greatest 8.0 instead.

At launch, the Nokia 3 was announced with Android 7.0 Nougat inside. The handset features a 5-inch HD display with a 1.3 GHz quad-core chipset paired with 2 GB RAM and 16 GB of internal storage.