Nokia had promised earlier that they would provide regular security updates to all the Nokia devices and is the main selling point of HMD Global Nokia.They had even promised to provide the Android Oreo updates to all Nokia devices and recently Nokia started pushing out the Android Oreo update to Nokia 8 in India.

Thanks! We will transition straight to Oreo

— Juho Sarvikas (@sarvikas) December 2, 2017

Now, Nokia budget segment device Nokia 3 which is still on Android 7.0 will directly be updated to Android 8.0 as per Juho Sarvikas, Cheif Product Officer for HMD Global.

Earlier Nokia had promised to update the Nokia 3 to 7.1.2 on Oct which didn’t happen and now some users of Nokia 3 had to ask Nokia regarding the Android 7.1.2 update on Twitter the Cheif Product Officer for HMD Global gave reply telling that it will be directly updated to Android Oreo.As of now, there are no details when will the device get the update.

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