Nokia 8 Review: A Solid First Attempt at Android Flagships
Long ago, Nokia was a household proper noun in the earth, thanks to its great characteristic phones and smartphones but it disappeared when their Windows 10 Mobile efforts didn't come to fruition under Microsoft's control. Now, the Finnish company HMD Global, who has purchased the rights for the Nokia brand, is making a strong comeback with its first-ever Android flagship. Yep, we're talking about the Nokia 8.
The company did already brand its return to the competition earlier in 2017 with the Nokia half-dozen just has since followed the launch with a series of mid-range devices. The Nokia 8 is their first true effort at providing its loyal fanbase, craving for an ultimate Android feel, the offset Nokia Android flagship. Mixed in with nostalgia, we're taking a closer look at whether the Nokia 8 lives upwardly to the flagship hype or not. And should it be your next daily driver?
Specifications
Before we talk about the intricate details of the Nokia viii, here's a brief wait at the complete specifications of this flagship device:
| Dimensions | 151.5mm ten 73.7mm ten 7.9mm |
| Weight | 160 thousand (5.64 oz) |
| Brandish | 5.3" QuadHD IPS LCD display with (2560 10 1440) resolution and ~554 ppi density |
| Processor | Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 (Octa-core, 4 x 2.5Ghz Kyro + 4 x 1.8GHz Kryo CPU) |
| GPU | Adreno 540 |
| RAM | 4GB/6GB |
| Storage | 64GB/128GB, expandable up to 256GB via MicroSD card slot |
| Primary Camera | dual xiii MP, color (OIS)+ mono ZEISS lenses with f/two.0 discontinuity, Stage Detection Auto-Focus, IR range finder, dual-tone flash |
| Secondary Camera | single thirteen MP photographic camera with f/2.0 aperture & display flash |
| Bombardment | 3090mAh, not-removable |
| Operating System | Android 7.1.1 Nougat |
| Sensors | Ambient light sensor, Proximity sensor, Accelerometer, Due east-compass, Gyroscope, Fingerprint Sensor, Hall sensor, Barometer |
| Connectivity | Dual-SIM slots (nano), USB Type-C 3.1, 3.5mm headphone jack, Wi-FI 802.xi a/b/g/north/ac (MIMO), Bluetooth 5, GPS/AGPS, GLONASS, NFC Pismire+ |
| Colors | Polished Bluish, Tempered Bluish, Steel, Polished Copper |
| Price | ₹36,999 |
What's In The Box
HMD Global, the Finnish company behind the revival of the Nokia brand, is not planning to miss the mark even with the retail packaging of the Nokia 8. Information technology notwithstanding continues to feature the well-known "Connecting People" logo, where you see individuals holding hands to connect with one some other. As for inside the Nokia 8 box, we get:
- Nokia 8 (Polished Blue)
- Charging adapter
- USB Type-C charging cable
- in-ear headsets
- Quick guide
- SIM ejector tool
Pattern and Build Quality
Even when Nokia is making a improvement to the smartphone marketplace subsequently years, the Finnish brand continues to maintain quality standards we expect from them. The Nokia viii is no less and sports a sophisticated design with curved glass roofing the entirety of its torso. The screen-to-body ratio of the 5.iii-inch display, which lands around 69.4%, is lacking when you compare it to the ongoing bezel-less trend. Smartphones like Xiaomi's Mi Mix 2 and Samsung Galaxy S8 have adopted big xviii:9 displays to provide screen-to-body ratios in the 80% range. Information technology is a huge disappointment and I would've preferred smaller top, as well as bottom chins, but the QuadHD display on the Nokia 8 makes up for information technology.
Remembering the fourth dimension when I first held the Nokia 8, I instantly fell in love with the feeling of belongings this device. The minimal footprint of the device, that's coupled with circular corners brand it easier to grip and employ with a single mitt. It's just and so comfy to pick and apply the Nokia eight. The device is IP54 splash and dustproof, which is a huge allow down from HMD Global.
The Polished Blue back also contributed to my attraction towards the device, fifty-fifty though information technology is a major fingerprint magnet and tends to slip out of my sweaty palm quite frequently. You can couple this with the photographic camera bump on the back to make a whole abrasive bunch of pattern choices but they're not a dealbreaker. You lot can alive with them, because of the classy build.
You'll find that the fingerprint scanner, which isn't the fastest I've seen on a phone, has been placed on the front end. Information technology doubles equally the dwelling push button and sits in the middle of the capacitive back and multitasking buttons. The power and volume buttons, though are clicky but feel really flimsy and squishy to the touch. I'chiliad not the biggest fan of the buttons but can make exercise because Nokia 8 includes a 3.5mm headphone jack, the ane thing we still use on a daily footing.
The sleek glass body of the Nokia eight may be an eye-grabber but the lightweight design and smaller footprint have the cake for me. I've used the iPhone 8 Plus for quite some time and it is much bulkier than the Nokia flagship both in terms of weight and size. Even though the two devices are in a different price bracket, I was comparing them because both introduced glass backs in their latest flagship device.
Display
Though the Nokia eight does not fulfill our edge-to-edge screen desires, it sports a stunning 5.3-inch Quad Hd (2560 x 1440 pixels) LCD IPS display to make up for the same. It translates to an impressive ~554 ppi pixel density, which seems appropriate for a flagship device of this cadre. The color reproduction of the brandish console is on-signal and not at all saturated as the screen of the Milky way S8.
I wish HMD Global could've gone with an OLED panel for its first-ever Nokia flagship but I have no qualms confronting the IPS LCD panel it has included in the Nokia viii. It is because the visitor hasn't compromised with the brandish quality on this flagship device that matches any superior LED display. The colors displayed are quite brilliant (they do pop), the blacks appear truly black and the screen remains quite legible even in sunlight. During my time with the device, its screen turned out to exist 1 of the prominent highlights of the Nokia eight and it could aid trump the tough competition it faces confronting the likes of Mi Mix ii and OnePlus 5 in its price bracket.
User Interface
Since the Android ecosystem is already over-fragmented, Nokia must take decided to step pes into the market with an about stock-like Android experience. The Nokia 8 comes with Android seven.1.i Nougat out-of-the-box with no gimmicky skins, customizations, characteristic sets or fifty-fifty bloatware.
This is an of import reason why I'd propose you to option up the Nokia 8 as their next daily driver. Yous'll not only experience the all-time of Android experiences but also receive latest software updates early than most devices bachelor in the market. It delivers a clean and responsive Android feel with minimal change to simply the icons and has added an active brandish feature, similar to the one available on its Microsoft devices.
The strategy of providing a vanilla Android experience, you tin can very well say, is similar to the ane adopted by Motorola. The former, withal, hasn't added anything new to the core Android offer while the latter did include some actress features, such as Moto Assist, that were useful to the users. I'd prefer to meet HMD Global work on improving the software on Nokia devices in the almost future.
HMD Global has already rolled out the Android 8.0 Oreo beta update for Nokia 8 to gather provide feedback. I'm using the said Android beta on my Nokia device and information technology does withal perform smoothly, except the camera app that nonetheless continues to underperform. If you want to install the Android Oreo beta on your Nokia viii, you can know how to do the same right here.
Functioning/Benchmarks
Talking about performance, the Nokia 8 packs the internals to match any of the flagship devices launched in 2017. It is powered by an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 chipset, where four cores are clocked at a maximum frequency of 2.5GHz whereas the other four cores are clocked at one.8GHz And it does show because the Nokia 8 is neither laggy nor did I find any frame drops while using the device. You tin can choose between two RAM+internal storage variants of the device, i.eastward 4GB RAM+64GB storage and 6GB RAM+ 128 GB storage. I was using the former configuration and it's defeated by the OnePlus 5 in terms of pure specifications.
If we plow our attention to benchmarks, the Nokia viii doesn't disappoint and scores a massive 173,505 on Antutu. This is comparable to near flagship devices, including its competitors Mi Mix ii and OnePlus v. It even tries to reach far to challenge market leader Samsung and others in terms of the numbers. I ran a Geekbench CPU test likewise and all results are attached below.
While gaming on the Nokia, most of the games were running smoothly and I didn't observe any lags. But, I did notice that the rear of the device did start heating a little when I was playing the game simply the heat dissipated within minutes after I stopped. This happened almost instantaneously because Nokia has upgraded the internals to include a copper pipe every bit it helps dissipate the internal oestrus when running heavy apps.
The almost-stock Android on the Nokia 8 also ran buttery shineexcept for the camera app. The one major category that the Nokia brand was known for is suffering on this device because of shutter lag in the camera app. It was at that place in the official software and has however non been improved in the Oreo beta too. I hope Nokia improves the same to brand Nokia eight one of the best smartphones at its price bespeak.
Cameras
The Nokia brand made its comeback with a simple camera module earlier this yr but HMD Global is reviving the legacy of the Nokia we remember with their flagship device. Nokia 8 follows the electric current trend by including a dual-rear photographic camera setup and also brings one of their oldest partners, Carl Zeiss, back into the loop. With Nokia 8, yous're getting dual xiii-megapixel lenses on the rear just it is non like to iPhone'southward dual-photographic camera setup. Instead, y'all get 1 regular RGB sensor with Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) and a monochrome sensor, both with f/2.0 aperture that doesn't sit completely flush and placed in a vertical fashion at the center of the body.
And trust me when I say this, the motion picture quality on the Nokia 8 is just wonderful as the monochrome sensor helps add corking detail to the same. The pictures are quite crisp and a chip on the libation side as compared to some of its competitors. The aforementioned is the case in photos clicked during nightime but it's not the all-time. While the pictures clicked are not bad, it sometimes overexposes things in front of the lens. Hither are some of the camera samples:
In addition to the cute color reproduction, the Nokia 8's dual rear camera setup is also capable of shooting with either of the 2 lenses. You can choose to capture a moving-picture show just in color or monochrome fashion, where the latter shines. The mono sensor gives you more than space to explore your creativity and click 'black and white' shots with ease.
The Nokia viii may include stock Android but the camera app has been redesigned, which is not the best idea equally there is a minor butnoticeable shutter lag that may spoil the fun of clicking pictures. The device also comes with two prominent modes, i.e Live Bokeh and Bothie, to make users more attracted to the camera. While the former works in a manner similar to iPhone's Portrait mode and adds decent blurring effectually its subject in real-time, the latter lets you click a picture with both the front and back simultaneously. It allows you to capture both the breathtaking dazzler, as well as your reaction to it but it's nothing more a gimmick that may but be usable while live streaming from within the photographic camera app.
Moving on, the videos created using the Nokia 8 output neat particular and are and then stable only because of the OIS included in the primary photographic camera lens. Both the rear and front 13MP cameras are capable of shooting videos in 4K and the experience is farther improved past the OZO audio experience, which you can read about underneath.
If y'all're non planning to buy the Nokia 8 because of the shutter lag in the camera app or the not-and so-good depression light performance at the moment, HMD Global is planning to debut their old but intuitive Lumia camera app to its Android devices in the most time to come.
Telephony & Sound
The audio section of the Nokia 8 has gotten much better, thanks to some major help from the folks over at the older parent visitor. Nokia 8 comes with support for Nokia OZO spatial 360-degree audio experience and the sound is crisp and loud. It does non even compromise on the quality but I'd have loved to come across the stereo speaker HMD Global had included in the Nokia half dozen.
My calling experience with Nokia 8 was null short of perfect, to say the least. The audio from the earpiece was articulate with no interruptions, crackles or anything. It was besides not too loud but blaring music from the bottom speaker gave me a headache since the book controls have lower number of steps. So, if I wanted to savour my music at, suppose seventy% volume and and then increase it a petty bit, well, I couldn't. It would just get too loud.
Nokia 8 has also not taken the step forward towards the adoption of digital audio by still including the 3.5mm headphone jack on the device and it'south the most satisfying matter. The move away from analog audio is going to be a irksome and tedious process that shouldn't burden the consumers looking for a decently priced device with flagship specs. Almost other phones with similar specs are already touching the huge $chiliad toll marking.
Connectivity
Yous tin can use the Nokia eight every bit a single nano SIM device, along with a MicroSD carte to increase the storage space or as a device with hybrid dual nano SIM smartphone. I call back the 64GB onboard storage is more than than plenty (if yous use Unlimited Google Photos backup storage) and it will be viable to use two SIM cards, i local and i international. The Nokia eight includes LTE CAT 9 support for 24 network bands and the 4G network on my Vodafone number was stiff and available at most times.
The device also includes support for both GPS and GLONASS, the Russian version of global positioning system. You lot can fifty-fifty use the Nokia 8's NFC ANT+ chip integration to pay for goods at the section store, but it wouldn't be of much use in Republic of india. HMD Global has also adopted the fast-charging USB Blazon-C three.one standard with the flagship.
In improver, Nokia 8 too supports the latest Bluetooth 5.0 standard, which is effectually two times faster, eight times data throughput and four times better range than its predecessor. This wireless standard is now being adopted rapidly, thank you to the improved connectivity experience. It enables you to connect more than i Bluetooth device to the smartphone, which means you no longer need to share earphones with your friend. They can use their ain on the Nokia 8.
Battery and Charging
The Nokia 8 has packed a decent 3,090 mAh battery, which might appear lacking on paper compared to its competitors, but the battery functioning is on par if not the best. I've been extensively using the Nokia 8 for close to a calendar week at present and tin conclude that the battery life is pretty average. The device will easily concluding you a complete day for a mix of medium to heavy usage, with a screen-on fourth dimension of around 5 hours. You will need to put the device on accuse at the end of the mean solar day only I expected more from Nokia's start flagship.
The charging wouldn't exist an issue as Nokia 8 supports Quick Charging iii.0 and you can charge the device from 0 to 100 percent in under 90 minutes. Information technology means you can get back to what you were doing in the nick of time. Notwithstanding, my biggest issue with the Nokia 8 here is that HMD Global could've included wireless charging on the device only it did not, even though Nokia 8 has a wonderful drinking glass back panel. It could have been a major differentiating cistron for Nokia among the flagship killer category.
Is the Nokia 8 Worth Buying?
Taking into account all the aspects that make a smartphone great, Nokia 8 checks out most of them. It is an excellent first flagship device, that marks the return of the in one case uber-pop Nokia brand to the smartphone ecosystem. Nokia 8 brings a more refined and premium design, with shine glass back, stock Android, and dual 'Carl Zeiss' rear camera lens, to the table at a decent cost signal of ₹36,999. I'm thoroughly impressed by the features packed by HMD Global in this device.
In this price bracket, the Nokia 8 will give a serious competition to budget flagship devices such every bit OnePlus v (starts at ₹32,999) and Xiaomi'south Mi Mix 2 (₹35,999). The Nokia viii, as well as OnePlus v both include dual rear-camera setups simply the former incorporates a monochrome lens to capture more detail while the latter has a telescopic lens. This has helped improve the flick quality/color reproduction of the pictures captured by the Nokia 8. The Mix 2, on the other hand, packs a stunning xviii:9 display, a cute and shiny ceramic back that's attractive. I'll give props to Xiaomi'south design team for this device simply I still don't love the forepart camera positioning at the bottom.
I'll admit that Nokia viii has changed my perspective towards flagships as the look and feel of the device in the paw tin't only be explained with mere words. Though the glass back may be a bit on the slippery side, the device is extremely comfortable to concur and use. The 1 device that comes closest to the Nokia eight in terms of quality and utility will have to be the OnePlus 5 equally it is direct up flagship stuff without many gimmicks.
You lot won't be missing out on anything that y'all wouldn't find in its competitors, except for a huge 18:9 brandish whose quality isn't anywhere shut to Nokia's. My suggestion for you will be that you can choose between the OnePlus 5 and Nokia eight, if you are looking for a upkeep device with flagship specs. And the Mi Mix 2 will be your best choice in terms of design. The Nokia viii, however, can be considered a safety bet for the flagship killer cost.
Pros:
- Elegant and premium blueprint
- Flagship specifications
- Super well-baked LCD display, comparable to AMOLED
- Not bad dual cameras
- Above average battery life, supports Quick charging 3.0
- Offers outstanding performance for the price
Cons:
- Large bezels
- Camera app suffers from an abrasive shutter lag
- Glass dorsum attracts fingerprints and is slippery
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Nokia 8: An Awesome Starting time Endeavour at Android Flagship
If y'all had been waiting for the return of the Nokia brand that you closely cherish, then this is is the device you lot should buy. Nokia viii is a wonderfully-built smartphone with a sleek and stunning glass design that you wouldn't wanna miss. The motion picture is not just colorful as in that location are a few shortcomings to this device but it is the first Nokia-branded Android device that lives up to its flagship name. I give the Nokia eight a thumbs up for those looking to get a new powerful Android device. Let u.s. know your thoughts in the comments section beneath.
| REVIEW OVERVIEW | |
| Design and Build Quality 7.five | |
| Display 8 | |
| User Interface 8 | |
| Operation nine | |
| Camera viii | |
| Telephony and Sound 9 | |
| Connectivity ix | |
| Battery and Charging 8 | |
| SUMMARY Overall, the Nokia 8 can be seen every bit the perfect comeback for the Finnish behemothic to the flagship smartphone ecosystem. It does have a few problems just they're not dealbreakers and the Nokia 8 makes a compelling point to take away the flagship killer tag away from OnePlus 5. | 8.iii OVERALL SCORE |
Source: https://beebom.com/nokia-8-review/
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