The $700 Nokia Isn't Worth It #Helpful Post

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about it hey guys this is Austin

ever since Nokia was revived with a

focus on Android then actually at least

some really cool stuff

phones like the Nokia 7.1 deliver saw

and hardware with a clean software

experience and most importantly it's all

at a pretty reasonable price so when

Nokia released this the Nokia 9 PureView

add a little bit more of a flagship

level well I gotta say I was curious

also it has a bunch of cameras so we

round back there are 512 megapixel

sensors so two of them shooting color

three of them shooting monochrome and

there's also a time of flight sensor as

well as a flash it's actually kind of

got a cool honeycomb look although I

think a lot of people find this to be

kind of a Loula disturbing maybe how

does this make you feel

oh no the idea is that all these cameras

are fused together using some text from

light the company who makes that crazy

16 sensor camera now well this doesn't

go quite to that ridiculous degree what

you should get at least on paper are

things like better sharpness better

low-light and a better depth map for

things like portrait shooting of course

the real question is how well does it

actually work or do they just add a

bunch of cameras here to be cool and

trendy now we can look at the on paper

specs all day but the real test is to

take the nokia 9 pure view into the real

world and you can't ask for a nicer day

to shoot than this so the start ways

we're going to take some standard photos

to see how the cameras work in a normal

pretty nice-looking condition Wow it

takes a long time to process you like a

standard still let's try something a

little tighter ok so the camera app is

reasonably quick but it takes a long

time to process a photo I mean I'm still

sitting here waiting for it to do

whatever stitching and post-processing

it needs to do it definitely does pull a

more dynamic range after doing its

processing I want to try some of the

bokeh mode though I actually think

that's sort of where this really can

shine stand right there let me get a

little uh one of these guys okay ready

and the actually does look pretty nice

so as I look around the edges it does a

very nice job of kind of naturally

making a depth map to sort of pull Ken

out of the background now it's not

perfect I can see there's a couple of

little edges that aren't perfectly

smooth but generally speaking it does a

good job and it does a good job with

like for example the camera and other

things in the foreground which sometimes

trip these systems up

this in context I have the Galaxy S 10

II this is very much in the same kind of

price range and it also does have a

portrait mode so let's see how this

stacks up oh yeah no it does she doesn't

do as good of a job it kind of loses

some of your hat the camera is a little

bit blurry yeah I know this is

definitely not as good of a depth map

you do see an advantage although I will

say one thing this is like so much

faster took about a second to process

versus almost 15 seconds on the nokia so

let's see what this looks like side by

side or at least as close as I can get

it

so snapping on s 10 snapping on Nokia

you actually kind of like the Nokia a

little bit better here a little bit

contrast year I though I guess there's a

little bit more range in the s 10 one

thing I will mention is that while the

Nokia has a ton of cameras they all have

the same focal length so there's no wide

angle there's no telephoto you can use

the digital zoom here which supposedly

takes advantage to them but on the s10

you do have that awesome wide-angle

camera and let's be real it's actually

something that I use a lot so you know

so Austin decided to let me do the

Lightroom work for this because I

actually was yeah I actually use

Lightroom but it's cool that it comes on

the phone because I wasn't the one that

shot these I don't have the greatest

frame of reference but so I'm just gonna

play around with the range here I'm

gonna see how much of the highlights I

can actually pull away and how much of

the shadows I can pull up and I mean

there is a lot of detail there it

actually did keep the blur like the

actual portrait blur in the background

which is neat it even brought in those

imperfections that you problem earlier

like around your hair it did a good job

at blending everything together and also

letting you edit all that stuff and raw

so if I just you know do a little

something here to rein in the highlights

and bring up the shadows a little bit

maybe warm up the image a little too

just to give it some look it looks

pretty comparable to the iPhone the

iPhone definitely gets grainy when you

push it too hard even though it does

give you a little bit of a better

starting point in terms of color and

exposure the image is plenty sharp for

as much as I pushed it and tone down the

highlights there's a lot of detail there

still if you're a photographer that just

does mobile stuff then maybe this is a

compelling sell to you but if you want a

more well-rounded experience then I

wouldn't buy this phone just for the

camera let's talk about the rest of the

hardware but simply it's a little bit on

the generic side so it does have Gorilla

Glass on front and back although I will

mention that there's actually just a

little bit of give in the middle which

is not something I'm used to seeing

especially on a flagship a rom front you

do have a nice display but the bezels

are a bit on the large side sure you

don't have a notch little bit nice to

maybe trim that down just a little bit

especially considering that there's no

front firing speakers here there's a lot

of wasted space they could have used for

stereo speakers also speaking of audio

or on bottom you do have USB C port but

you don't have a headphone jack so yeah

now the screen is actually one of my

favorite parts of the phone it's a quad

HD OLED panel and not only is it nicely

saturated maybe a little bit too much

but importantly it gets very bright and

it's totally usable even when you're

using it outside honestly this is one of

the areas where you do notice a

difference between the Nokia 9 and some

of the other competitors in this price

point including the iPhone 10 R as well

as the Galaxy S 10 II just have a better

screen spec wise though this really

can't compete

so inside you'll find a snapdragon 845

which is great last year but this year

it's just not quite up to the same

flagship level quality of something like

the iPhone 10 or the Galaxy S 10 II it

just falls behind it's definitely a weak

point although I do understand that

probably took them a while to optimize

the snapdragon with all of the different

cameras and stuff but honestly I think

now is is part of the reason why it's so

slow to process it just isn't the most

quick fast phone out there it's fine for

normal use but it's really not quite

what I would like to see at least 700

hour price point like basically all

Nokia Android phones at this point it is

powered by Android 1 that means that now

I do we have a very clean build of

Android 9 but importantly you also get a

guarantee of two years of Android

updates and three years of security

updates that is a big big plus in this

category I take the back it's not a big

plus in this category it's a big plus

for literally anyone using a phone who

wants to get more than like a year maybe

a year and a half of updates one of the

flashy features of the PureView is the

end display fingerprint sensor now this

is something we've seen on the oneplus

60 as well as the Galaxy S 10 both of

which do it fairly well but here well

let me just show you so if I tap the

screen

it's okay I'll eventually do it there we

go now I put my finger on it and a thing

okay I put it again

aha it worked because again this is

probably one of the least reliable

fingerprint sensors whoever you course

I'm working perfectly damn it

there we go yeah see look it took me

three tries that time I'm not crazy

the milky at nine PureView has some very

interesting tech and there are some cool

parts about this phone but at 700 ollars

it is playing with the big boys as far

as I'm concerned it's just not quite the

same well-rounded package as you can get

with that iPhone 10 our galaxy s 10 e

now yeah for some people I think the

cameras are gonna be worth it for the

most part not really worth the price at

least until it comes down a little bit