That is as large a shock for us because it should be for HMD – the corporate’s newest cellphone is now on sale by Australian retailer JB Hello-Fi. It’s known as the HMD Aura and it’s just like the HMD Pulse, besides that it’s cheaper than it. There isn’t any details about it on HMD.com, although, at the least not but.
The Aura has a 6.56” show and although it runs at solely 60Hz, it has a better decision of 900 x 1,600px (vs. 720 x 1,612px on the Pulse). No fancy punch gap right here, although, as a substitute it makes use of a notch for the 5MP selfie digicam.
The rear digicam is fairly fundamental too with a 13MP important module and a depth sensor subsequent to it. And this can be a uncommon sight lately, however the cellphone has a rear-mounted fingerprint reader.
The HMD Aura is powered by the Unisoc SC9863A1, which options eight Cortex-A55 cores (4 at 1.6GHz and 4 at 1.2GHz), plus a PowerVR GE8322 GPU. Unisoc advertises this as its first 4G chipset with AI acceleration, however the 28nm node doesn’t precisely promise excessive efficiency.
Anyway, the chipset is attached to 4GB of RAM and 64GB storage, which is expandable through the microSD slot by as much as 256GB. And earlier than you ask, sure, it does have a 3.5mm headphone jack.
HMD Aura
The cellphone comes with Android 13 and we don’t see any point out of OS updates, nevertheless it does include the promise of two years of safety patches. Notice that this can be a twin SIM cellphone, nevertheless, the hybrid tray makes you select between a second cellphone line and additional storage. Further connectivity consists of Wi-Fi 4 (n), Bluetooth 4.2 and GPS.
The 5,000mAh battery has a reasonably excessive capability, however the USB-C port helps solely 10W charging. Primarily based on checks, the battery ought to retain 80% of its unique capability after 500 cycles.
HMD Aura colorways: Glacier Inexperienced • Indigo Black
The HMD Aura is priced AUD 180. For comparability, a Pulse with 4GB of RAM and 128GB storage is AUD 230 on JB Hello-Fi (be aware the additional storage). Changing to US {dollars}, the Aura is $120, although we don’t know if and when it will likely be accessible exterior of Australia. Truly, HMD’s Australia web site doesn’t present something about this cellphone, so a correct announcement hasn’t occurred but, however we’ll preserve our ears to the bottom.