It can also be used for contactless payments via NFC, which is a feature often missing on budget smartphones, as is the IPX2 water ingress protection.

It charges via micro-USB, has a circular fingerprint sensor on the back (underneath the vertically-aligned dual cameras), supports face unlocking and has a 3.5mm headphone socket. The Nokia 2.4 comes in a choice of three different colours: ‘Dusk’, ‘Fjord’ and ‘Charcoal’ and has a large 6.5in HD+ (1,600 x 720) IPS display with a neat teardrop notch in the top-centre portion of the screen. The Nokia 2.4 is constructed from plastic, rather than more premium materials such as metal and glass, although Nokia says it has a frosted “3D nano-textured rear”, which actually looks rather swish in the press images.īest phone camera 2023: Combining Android and Apple smartphone cameras to find the ultimate champion With a price like that, of course, certain sacrifices have to be made. Nokia 2.4 design: What does it look like? When it does finally appear in shops, the Nokia 2.4 will cost a paltry £99, which is a mere fraction of the cost of recent handset releases such as the Galaxy Note 20, Sony Xperia 5 II and even Nokia’s own Nokia 8.3 5G. Thankfully, the Nokia 2.4’s launch price is more certain. At the unveiling event, Nokia provided an ‘October’ release window, so it could be here in little over a week, or five weeks from the publishing of this article. READ NEXT: Best budget smartphones Nokia 2.4: Everything you need to know Nokia 2.4 release date: When can you buy one?Īlas, we don’t have a specific release date for the Nokia 2.4 just yet. As it happens, Nokia has just unveiled its newest smartphone lineup for the end of 2020, and the Nokia 2.4 in particular is already shaping up to be a particularly worthwhile purchase – despite costing £99. In recent years we’ve seen superb cutthroat choices from the likes of Xiaomi, Honor and Nokia pop up in shops. Assertive marketing campaigns usually do a good job at convincing consumers to fork out wallet-wilting sums on the latest and greatest flagships, but depending on your preferences, there’s often no need to spend lots of money on your next upgrade. A sub-£100 smartphone is hardly the most alluring of propositions.