Nokia 5.1 Starts Receiving Android 10 Update in India

Nokia 5.1 has started receiving Android 10 in India and other global markets, HMD Global Chief Product Officer Juho Sarvikas has announced via a tweet. The Android 10 update for Nokia 5.1 brings a fresh user experience with an upgraded interface as well as a list of new features. The new development comes just days after Nokia 3.1 started receiving the Android 10 update in India. The Finnish company also brought the Android 10 (Go edition) update for the Nokia 2.1 last month.

HMD Global is bringing the Android 10 update to Nokia 5.1 in phases. The update will reach a total of nine markets – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, India, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. As much as 10 percent of the markets have already started receiving the update, while 50 percent of them will get the update by October 11 and 100 percent rollout will take place on October 13, the company stated in a forum post on its community site. However, in India, all Nokia 5.1 users would receive the update latest by October 29.

You can check the arrival of the Android 10 update on your Nokia 5.1 by going to Settings > About Phone > System updates.

With the release of the latest update for Nokia 5.1, HMD Global has completed its Android 10 rollout roadmap that it revised in April due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Nokia 5.1 was launched back in August 2018. The smartphone debuted with Android 8.0 Oreo, though it received the Android 9 Pie update in March 2019.

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