G-Series — Get the Nokia G10 or G20 if you want the longest battery life. The downside: no 5G. The G20 features a 5,050 mAh battery, 6.5-inch HD+ display with teardrop notch, MediaTek G35 chip, 4GB of RAM + 64GB or 128GB of storage, microSD card slot, quad rear camera (48-megapixel main + 5-megapixel ultra-wide, 2-megapixel depth, and 2-megapixel macro), and an 8-megapixel selfie camera, headphone jack. It has a side-mounted fingerprint sensor.
The G10 has the same design with a less powerful G25 chip, 3GB or 4GB of RAM + 32GB or 64GB of storage, and a triple-lens camera (13-megapixel main + 2-megapixel depth + 2-megapixel macro).
C-Series — Lastly, there’s the C10 and C20 — the most basic of the phones. The C20 has a 6.5-inch display, SC0963a chip, a paltry 1GB or 2GB of RAM + 16GB or 32GB of storage, a microSD card slot, and 3,000 mAh battery. The cameras are barebones, too: 5-megapixels on the front and back. There’s a headphone jack, but no fingerprint reader (only face unlock), and it charges via micro USB and not USB-C. The C10 has an even slower processor.
Nokia is barely alive — The C, G, and X phones are not flagship. In fact, they’re arguably worse than the cheap 5G Galaxy A phones Samsung announced this week. Prices will vary by region, but these are aimed at the budget and mid-range so expect them to clock in sub-$500. If anything, they keep the Nokia brand alive for a little longer. How much longer, though? Who knows. If LG couldn’t make its mobile business work, how can the little guys like Nokia survive? Maybe cheap, boring phones are the way to go, but these designs and specs leave a lot to be desired. Then again, LG tried weird phones for years and they did nothing to save the company.