Nokia had planned to wrap up its Android 10 update roster by Q2, but that didn’t happen. In March, HMD Global pushed forward its Android 10 rollout timeline. The reason is obvious – 2020 has been the year of the pandemic.
However, the company is now almost closing the roadmap by shipping Android 10 to one of the remaining two phones according to the original update timeline released last year.
Recently HMD Global chief product officer Juho Sarvikas has announced on Twitter that the company has started rolling out the update to Nokia 3.1 users.
Nokia 3.1 users will receive the update at different times. That is because HMD has divided the rollout into waves with the first wave covering 21 countries globally including Armenia, Tunisia, Morocco, and more.
Here’s the full list of countries served by the first wave
- Armenia
- Azerbaijan
- Bangladesh
- Belarus
- Georgia
- India
- Kazakhstan
- Laos
- Malaysia
- Mongolia
- Morocco
- Nepal
- Philippines
- Singapore
- Sri Lanka
- Thailand
- Tunisia
- Ukraine
- Uzbekistan
- Vietnam
50% of the countries under the first wave will receive the update by Oct 10th while the remaining should expect to see the OTA update by Oct 12th.
Will Nokia 3.1 Receive Android 11?
HMD Global launched the Nokia 3.1 in May 2018, running Android 8.0 “Oreo”. The phone was updated to Pie last year and now Android 10. With that, Nokia 3.1 will not receive any major Android updates in the future. However, Nokia 3.1 users will continue to receive security updates for at least another year.
Also Read: Nokia Briefly Teases its Android 11 Update Roadmap