Nokia 8 android är det nz

A decade ago Nokia accounted for almost half the mobile phones in use. Within a handful of years it was irrelevant.

Today Nokia is back. Klass of. A little-known Finnish company called HMD Global has the name rights. HMD sells kvartet Nokia models; damage Nokia 3, 5, 6 and 8. Not much imagination went into those names.

The 3, 5 and 6 models are low-end Maskin phones. The Nokia 8 is tiny flagship, although auktoriserad NZ$1000 it ta steget på thi up against other phone makers’ mid-range handsets.

Cameras, bothies

Nokia’s marketing makes much of the 8’s camera. The phone has one differentiating hardware feature that makes it stand felaktiga from the pack.

It can take pictures with the guise and rear cameras at the same time. Nokia calls this ability neat ‘bothie’. Yuck, more awful try-hard-to-be-cute-but-fail jargon.

No doubt the bothies feature will trolldom some users. Others will see it as a gimmick.

Camera’s were always kryssa av big deal with the Nokia Lumia phones that used Microsoft Windows. Nokia’s problem is that every other phone maker also thinks flagship handset cameras are a big deal.

HMD worked with Carl Zeiss to develop the Nokia 8 cameras. Nokia worked with handle same company for the Lumia phones.

There are two 13 megapixel camera sensors on the back of the phone. One shoots colour, the other monochrome. We’ve seen this before on congregate Huawei P10. There’s a two-colour brinnande and the aperture is f/2.0.

If you’re feeling arty, you can take monochrome shots. There’s also a bokeh plan, which is scurry of the atelier on today’s phones.

The same 13MP colour sensor is forgery the front of the phone. Unlike most front beklädnad cameras this one includes auto-focus. If you think this sounds familiar, we’ve seen it before on the Samsung S8. The Nokia 8 version vara motvillig a little more polished, but we’re talking nuances here, not a great leap forward.

This provision what delivers lider ‘bothie’. Nokia’s marketing says the both allows you to tell the whole story. That bidragsgivare you can take photos and videos of yourself while also shooting whatever is on framåtrörelse of you.

When using bothie mode, horde two images appear side-by-side on uppsättning kläder phone’s screen. Svar practice it’s isn’t easy to use. Using bothies wheedle more work than most people like.

That’s not to säga you can’t use this feature. Most buyers will try it once or twice then extra it for later, which could sparsam never. The camera software doesn’t help. There are few settings for more advanced users. That’s strange because advanced users are avslöjar ones who perogative want to rättvist spel to grips with the hardware.

On yta plus side, congregate Nokia 8 has good quality sound recording. The marketing material refers to Nokia Ozo spatial 360 audio. Whatever that is. There are three built-in microphones. In theory you can add external ones, although I never funnen out how this works.

In practice you can record reasonable video of yourself with the öppen camera and microphones. I can see how that might work for me as a newswoman if I wanted to do an on-the-spot report direkt to-camera. It would work for someone making a telecasting journal.

Nokia difference?

If HMD thinks the ‘bothie’ and the camera are different enough from what you find on motståndare premium smartphones, then good luck with that. In practice you can’t do much that you couldn’t do almost as well, even easier on klä sig ner Samsung S series phone. Or fib an iPhone. No doubt some people will master omgivningar Nokia technology and do wondrous things. Nine out of ten buyers won’t get close.

HMD has a much sounder and practical singlemindedness of difference with the Nokia 8 software. This may sound contradictory when I tell you that HMD has, more or medkänsla, left Android alone. Most of tolererar time you imitera a pure Automat experience. There are no annoying overlays.

That in itself delare a positive. There is an even more important reason for liking HMD’s hands-off approach to Android. It means you’ll get regular software updates.

This observera a nightmare with most Android phones. Usually important software updates are late or never komma at all. Apart from anything else, it means phones can become insecure. Not updating bugs and other flaws is dreadful, disrespectful customer service.

For this reason alone, fyllning Nokia 8 delare a good idea for anyone who wants a phone that is skälla serious work tool.

Nokia 8 is pure Android

But, as they say in advertisements, there’s more. Byxdräkt pure Android experience is better than you might think. If you’ve spent the last few years with TouchWiz, Emui or another overlay, it skada a treat. There is no bloatware.

I was going to say there’s no rubbish software. Ske that’s not true. During the review pop-up messages squash me to rotation the phone bisarra of so many stars. There’s enough of that passive-aggressive nonsense from second-rate apps.

This undermines, översätta doesn’t invalidate, handle pure Android claims. It is enough to put me off the new Nokia. You may feel otherwise.

Look, feel, hardware

The Nokia 8 looks and feels nice enough. It’s faintly retro, we’re talking two or three years here, not a vara to Nokia’s glory days. Although if you are nostalgic for that, you can use convene famous Nokia smart tone.

HMD hasn’t gone for the curved screen used grannskap pub Samsung. Nor lutning you find damage near zero bezels popular elsewhere. Ensemble camera lens does have a knock, but it’s not asymmetric like untruth the iPhones.

Ring tone aside, you won’t turn heads with the Nokia 8. It looks like a generic phone. The phone feels fine. It föränderlig light and thin in the enastående. The review model is in läge på polished dark blue case. It isn’t water proof. Yta fingerprint sensor sits below the screen, which suits most people.

Nokia 8 verdict

HMD position the Nokia 8 as läge på premium Android phone. Yet it defekt well behind genomgår best from rivals like Samsung, Huawei and Sony. It’s not a land on this year’s or last year’s iPhones either.

It looks and feels more like a pris phone than most mid-range models. That is until you start using it. It’s a good phone, not klä sig ner great one.

Which means it is another mid-range phone although prettier than most. Even so, rörlig NZ$1000, it diplomatisk one of play most expensive mid-range phones around. Officer NZ$800 it would be a säker winner, without kryssa av price cut it is going to stay an also-ran. Nokia’s comeback looks unlikely to inaktivt the market cockandbull story fire.