You can now pre-order the Nokia 1.3 if you are located stateside or know of a retailer willing to ship to Canada, which shouldn’t be that big of an issue. At $99, this is the most affordable Android smartphone you can currently buy, especially if you only limit yourself to devices you expect to work for longer than the time it takes you to bring them home to grandma for Christmas.
And you know this one will because it runs the Go Edition of Android 10, which is basically the poor man’s Android, aka the thing Google created in order to stop cheap smartphones from sucking, which is why developing nations such as India have been slow to adopt them over feature phones up until the last few years. The Nokia 1.3 has a 5.71-inch display and a notch that’s home to a 5-megapixel selfie shooter.
The phone is powered by a quad-core Qualcomm QM215 processor, which comes with 1GB of RAM, and has a 2,500mAh battery to fuel the show. The Nokia 1.3 will be available in two colors (black and white), but we’re still missing an official release date, despite its pre-orders going live. The phone is bound to become available at an even lower price from Amazon come this year’s holiday season, as is often the case with such budget offerings.
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