The Nokia 1 Plus was freshly announced by HMD together with rest of the Nokia 9, Nokia 4.2 and Nokia 3.2. A very surprising thing for all the people came as HMD prepared the Nokia 1 Plus Kernel Source code for prime time earlier than it offered the device for the people to buy.

Basically, the Kernel source connects the software with the hardware, and as the thing is known that at all times, the Android source code is offered for all the users, by using it, the developers are able to create a kind of cool stuff such as AOSP-based ROMS.
By this time, HMD presented the source code for these smartphones:
- Nokia 5.1
- Nokia 1 Plus
- Nokia 5.1 Plus
- Nokia 3
- Nokia 7 .1
- Nokia 8.1
- Nokia 7 Plus
- Nokia 8
- Nokia 6.1 Plus
- Nokia 1
- Nokia 2
- Nokia 6.1
- Nokia 6
- Nokia 3.1
- Nokia 2.1
HMD is also supposed to present the Source code for Nokia 9, 4.2, 3.2 the coming month.