Nokia 6 sales will begin in China on January 19, reservations go live

If you live in China, you can now put down a little money now to make sure you can be one of the first to get the Nokia 6 smartphone. JD.com is taking online paid reservations on its site for 66 CNY (about $9) for the Android phone, ahead of its official launch on Thursday, Jan. 19.

JD.com will be the exclusive retail site for the Nokia 6, which is the first phone with the famous brand that’s being released by HMD Global. The company surprised the world last weekend when it announced that the Nokia 6 will be sold exclusively in China, for the price of 1,699 CNY, or about $245.

The Nokia 6 itself will have a 5.5-inch Full HD display with 2.5D Gorilla Glass on top, and will have Android 7.0 Nougat installed out of the box.  Inside it will have the Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 processor along with 4 GB of RAM and 64 GB of onboard storage. It will also have a 16 MP rear camera and an 8 MP front-facing camera.

HMD Global is already preparing to reveal even more Nokia-branded Android smartphones. Today, it stated on the Nokia Mobile Facebook page that more announcements will be coming on Feb. 26, just before the start of the 2017 Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, Spain.