Nokia at MWC18

<p>Actually, the new Nokia 6 caught my attention. It's specs are a notch below the Nokia 7 Plus (as one would expect), but most "non-power users" would probably find its performance to be quite acceptable. And, at an estimated price below $300, it's quite a bargain in this age of $1,000 phones.</p><p><br></p><p>After much research, I temporarily went with a 2017 Moto G5 after my Nexus 5X caught the Bootloop illness last August. Since it was later in the year, the street price of the G5 was much lower than when first introduced. I got it for the equivalent of $150 in November (I used my old, but still perfectly functional, Nexus 4 until then). The G5 has decidedly low-end specs, but it was well-reviewed and I was quite surprised to find that in my normal daily use it performed just fine (much better than the Nexus 4, as you would expect) — even with a Snapdragon 430 and only 2 GB of RAM. In most respects, it was no worse than the Nexus 5X (excepting the camera, of course), and in some respects even better. That really opened my eyes to how capable many of these lower-priced phones have become.</p><p><br></p><p>This has me looking at "lower mid-range" phones at this point (at price points less than $350 — I paid $279 for the 5X two years ago), and the new 2018 Nokia 6 looks like it might fit the bill just fine. It'll be interesting to see how it stacks up when it actually hits the streets.</p>