Like many countries, the laptop market of India exploded this year with a sudden rise in the demand for better machines at all price points. Aiming to grab a piece of the pie, HMD Global is throwing its hat in the ring with the launch of the Nokia PureBook X14.
Wight the rise in remote working, laptops have become far more essential in 2020. To nobody’s surprise, we saw many new brands enter the space such as Xiaomi and Honor. Keeping the Indian context in mind, they focussed on the budget segment. Nokia’s approach seems to be towards the premium segment, with equally high-end design and materials in tow.
Beyond smartphones, Nokia also entered the smart TV and media streaming device segments in India this year. The Nokia PureBook launch was confirmed by Flipkart earlier last week, while a BIS listing revealed that up to nine different models could be unveiled eventually. Oddly, Flipkart jumped the gun and made the product page live already, revealing the Nokia PureBook X14 price and specs — unless it is a decoy placeholder.
Cut to the chase
- What is it? Nokia's first laptop in India
- When is it coming? Mid-December
- How much will it cost? Likely to be premium
Nokia PureBook X14 price in India and availability
HMD Global is yet to confirm when the Nokia PureBook laptops in India. Usually, once the teasers and product pages are live on the eCommerce partner’s site, the release is not too far. We expect the official unveiling to take place in the coming days itself and should go on sale before the end of the year.
While it is still listed as ‘Coming soon’, the Nokia PureBook X14 price is listed as Rs 90,000, putting it squarely in the premium category. We think this is the top-of-the-line model and there will be cheaper variants too. The availability could happen in a phased manner.
Nokia PureBook X14 specs and features
The product page reveals a lot of details about the top variant of the Nokia PureBook X14, and they seem to fall in line with previous reports. As the name suggests, the laptop will have a 14-inch Full HD display with support for Dolby Vision HDR. The bezels on three sides will be fairly slim at just 4.8mm while retaining the HD IR webcam on the top edge.
The entire body of the Nokia PureBook X14 will be made of a Magnesium-Aluminium alloy, coming in at 16.8mm thick and tipping the scales at just 1.1 kgs. It manages to fit in a full-sized RJ45 port for wired ethernet connections, along with a USB Type-C, two USB Type-As (USB 3.1), a regular USB 2.0, HDMI and a combo 3.5mm audio jack.
On the inside, this variant will be powered by the 10th generation Intel Core i5 processor with Turbo frequencies of up to 4.2GHz. It will be paired with 8GB of RAM and 512GB of NVMe SSD storage. As for wireless connectivity, the Nokia PureBook X14 will support Bluetooth 5.1 and dual-band WiFi. Other features include a fingerprint scanner, keyboard backlighting and Dolby Atmos audio.
We expect to learn more about these laptops in the coming days.
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