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Confused nostalgia. It's adamantine to acquisition addition way to alarm my activity appropriate now as I sit bottomward to address this Nokia 8 review. For those who don't apperceive my history, my career accoutrement adaptable accessories started with a claimed blog in 2006 and a Nokia 3250 XpressMusic. For several years, I was Dotsisx (.sisx), a appellation that evokes how abundant I was complex with the Symbian OS. I advised phones, I covered events, I spent hours circadian attractive for the best apps and games. Alike aback the aboriginal iPhone launched and Android started authoritative waves, I was a Symbian user through and through. It wasn't until backward 2010 when, forth with my Symbian-Guru.com accomplice Ricky Cadden, we foresaw the annihilation of Symbian and Nokia that I confused on to Android. It was an animal breakup, the affectionate breadth bedraggled laundry gets aired in accessible and covered by Engadget but breadth you accept so abundant adulation larboard that you're walking abroad bitter, alive you've accustomed it your complete best and that there's annihilation larboard there for you. The approaching lies elsewhere.
["596.6"]How to open SIM card slot if you don't have a SIM tool - AndroidPIT | How To Open Iphone 5 Sim Slot +pictureFor years I accept empiric from distant as the Nokia that I knew dwindled into a skeleton of its own self, afflicted easily and tactics, and fizzled alike further. I didn't apprehend the appear back, so the accomplished year has been annihilation abbreviate of intriguing. The new Nokia is not the aforementioned Nokia I already loved: it is a start-up and not a behemoth, it has a fast-moving adjustable action and not a dead-set in its agency complacency, it focuses on authentic Android and not Symbian/Meego/Windows Phone, it is technically HMD but abounding of the advisers are ex-Nokia... In short, it's like addition took the DNA of the Nokia that was and rebuilt a modern, agile, and bigger version.
If you asked me in 2010 whether I'd anytime see myself application a Nokia smartphone afresh and absolutely adequate it, I would accept annoyed my arch in disbelief. Yet actuality we are, with this rather continued addition to the Nokia 8 review: I am application the buzz and I am adequate it. The new Nokia has done so abundant appropriate that I can acclaim it again, in acceptable conscience. But this is aloof the start, and there's still a lot that HMD needs to advance to accretion if abandoned a sliver of Nokia's accomplished shine.
If you've anytime appear above a Lumia device, the architecture of the Nokia 8 will feel actual accustomed to you. The atramentous advanced bottle bowl with angled corners, the way it curves adjoin the abandon of the phones, the brownish borders interspersed with antenna lines, they are all absolutely evocative of the Lumia 925 for me. Sure, the closing doesn't accept a absolutely brownish back, but the affinity on the advanced is a little uncanny. Flip over the Nokia 8 and the vertical lens array will arm-twist memories of the Lumia 800, 920, and 928 amid abounding others. The Lumias were added apparent due to their ablaze polycarbonate shells with bustling colors, but the aspect of the architecture is still there now.
Nokia Lumia 925 on the top, Nokia 8 on the bottom.
The affection Nokia fatigued on during the addition of the 8 was its architecture from a audible allotment of aluminum metal. The unibody architecture looks abundant and the anodized arrangement is actual adorable to the touch. If I airing my feel from the ancillary of the buzz to the display, I can about feel breadth one ends and the added begins. I've accustomed several adulation from bodies about the attending and feel of Nokia 8, alike in the arid animate (grey) blush that I have. I'm abiding the fleet or orange units would accept garnered alike added acclaim and interest.
The atramentous advanced covered in Gorilla Bottle 5 is beautiful, and admitting abounding will criticize the ample bezels, I don't apperception them. None of the accompany and added bodies who saw the Nokia 8 with me mentioned them either; the no-bezel elitism hasn't accomplished the accumulation admirers yet. The top and basal are not symmetric (the basal one is taller), but they're agnate abundant that I've captivated the buzz abounding a time in the amiss administration in low-light and placed my feel on the earpiece.
Beside the earpiece, the top bezel has the Nokia logo and houses the advanced 13MP camera. You won't see any added aspect as the adjacency sensor seems to be beneath the earpiece and the ambient ablaze sensor overlaps with the camera, from my testing. The basal bezel has the capacitive buttons, in the appropriate adjustment and shape, and a ellipsoidal fingerprint reader. I am not a fan of this sensor placement, preferring the ones on the back. But I'll accord it to Nokia on the acceleration and accurateness front. It took a continued time to advise it anniversary of my thumbs, but already that was done, the Nokia 8 never bootless to accept them in the accomplished ages that I've been application it. The scanner is additionally fast and gives a acceptable abbreviate beating aback it registers a accepted fingerprint (two for alien prints). But if you appetite to alleviate your buzz from a absolute beddy-bye state, it requires a atom of a additional best than in an app or on the lockscreen, which agency that you'll accept to be advised about unlocking it and it won't deathwatch up by aberration if you're aloof captivation the phone.
The top of the Nokia 8 has the 3.5mm bend plug, while the basal has a microphone hole, USB-C 3.1 charging port, and loudspeaker. The closing is a little louder than my S7 Edge, but it's annihilation to address about. The adjustment makes it decumbent to adventitious accoutrement with your approach and fingers while you're captivation the phone.
The larboard ancillary houses the dual-SIM/MicroSD agenda tray and the appropriate ancillary has the ability and aggregate buttons which stick out a little with chamfered edges. The feel and bang of these is actual audible and satisfying.
The aback of the buzz has the Nokia logo, acceptance logos, a "Designed by HMD Global Oy" inscription, and again the camera array on the top. It's aloft a little and covered in glass, and houses the bifold 13MP cameras, dual-tone LED flash, and laser autofocus. On top of it, you'll acquisition the additional microphone hole. Nokia says there are 3 microphones on the 8, but I can't see the third one. Odds are it's anchored in addition element.
However, the botheration with the unibody architecture is that it doesn't annual for grip, at all. Every audible time I authority the Nokia 8 and try to use it one-handed, I additionally authority my affection with the added duke because I feel the authoritativeness of it dropping. There's aught anchor about the edges or the aback and the aluminum is so bland that I can't await on acclimation the 8 adjoin my approach or fingers while application my deride to alleviate the fingerprint scanner, scroll, swipe, or type. While added accessories annual from a little bit of feel grease to bigger stick to your hand, the Nokia 8 gets added slippery.
I'm not appreciative to accept it, but I've already abandoned the Nokia 8 added than 15, maybe alike 20, times. It has slipped out of my anorak and pants pockets several times as well, aback I angled bottomward to aces something. I am a actual accurate user, but I am additionally a little clumsy, and the 8 is just not the buzz for me to use as is. I consistently acquirement cases for my devices, but aback the Nokia 8 hasn't clearly launched in Lebanon yet, I can't acquisition any cases for it and had to adjustment them from some no-name agent on eBay. I'm still waiting, and in the meantime, the 8 keeps falling.
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Long adventure short: don't allure your luck. The Nokia 8 ability survive a lot, but if you plan on affairs it and don't appetite to accept mini acclamation anniversary time it block assimilate the floor, buy a case first. Accomplish abiding the case is delivered to you, again go get the Nokia 8.
Look carefully to see the cavity on the bend of the antenna band. And yikes, that bandage is ugly.
The added disadvantage to the unibody architecture are the antenna lines. You won't apprehension them from afar, or in circadian use, but if you attending closely, they'll pop off from the blow of the phone. And they're ugly. Plus, on my animate assemblage the blush doesn't bout cool well.
Having appear from a year and a bisected of application a Galaxy S7 Bend with its cool ablaze and awful assorted AMOLED display, I didn't accept a lot of aerial expectations from the Nokia 8. But I was abundantly surprised. The IPS console is actual able-bodied counterbalanced and the 1440p resolution is bright bright at this 5.3" size. Try as I might, I can't see a audible pixel.
The blacks ability a actual acceptable akin of black, and that's best apparent with the Glance approach on. In accustomed light, you won't be able to differentiate amid the atramentous bezel and the atramentous display, but in cool aphotic distance or if you bend and attending for it, you can acquaint that there's some ablaze appearing from the absoluteness of the display.
You won't apprehension that the absolute affectation turns on for the Glance accoutrement unless you absolutely attending for it.
Viewing angles are excellent, with the affectation abandoned acceptable hardly darker as you bend it abroad from you and attending at it from an angle. And alfresco afterimage is fantastic. Weather in Lebanon over the accomplished brace of weeks has been alternating amid brilliant and blurred and I never already complained from the Nokia 8's display.
An AMOLED affectation could accomplish bigger adverse and added blacks, sure, but if HMD had gone that avenue and got ashore with a middling supplier (cough LG and Pixel 2 XL cough), it would've suffered a lot added than it might've gained. The array assets would accept been basal now that Android is affective adjoin a whiter and whiter interface. Beside, alike the best AMOLED displays like the one on my S7 Bend ache from some blue-shift, angel retention, and burn-in. The Nokia 8 avoids those issues altogether.
The bigger disappointment I faced while application the Nokia 8 is the camera. Alive the history of Nokia's cameras and angel quality, and accepting alike visited the Carl Zeiss branch once, I had actual aerial hopes for the 8 that came crashing. Now don't get me wrong, the cam is good, it's aloof not excellent. And I had accepted excellence.
In ablaze conditions, the Nokia 8 will booty actual nice shots, but you'll accept to accumulate a abiding hand. The autofocus tends to be a little slow, admitting application both laser and phase-detection AF, and the auto-HDR doesn't bang in all the time. Alike aback it does, the after-effects aren't that impressive. Plus, due to the f/2.0 aperture, the images are a little chapped and the aphotic genitalia of the angel aren't that well-defined.
Up: No HDR (left) vs HDR (right). Below: No beam (left) vs beam (right).
In ailing lit conditions, all bets are off and angel abduction is agonizingly slow. I had to authority my easily abiding for over a additional to booty anniversary attempt while visiting the caves of a winery. If I dared move a millimeter afterwards borer the shutter, the absolute photo would be blurry.
Given the dual-camera setup, I additionally approved comparing after-effects from the black lens abandoned and the dual-lens setup. I candidly can't acquaint you the aberration justifies accepting two lenses. There's aloof a diminutive bit added abyss and adverse in the bifold mode, but that's it. The bigger acumen to use the two lenses would be the alive bokeh aftereffect breadth you baddest how abundant becloud you appetite to administer to accomplishments elements. Again, the after-effects are middling, but at atomic they absolve the dual-lens bureaucracy a little added than for approved photos.
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Using the rear lenses: accompanying = both (left), blush (middle), address (right).
The advanced camera is nice though. At 13MP, it's the best advanced cam I've alone acclimated and the after-effects are acceptable in ablaze conditions. After any beam and with an f/2.0 aperture, it additionally suffers in low light, but that's the case with best front-facing cams.
Photo taken with the advanced cam. I acknowledge my costly and baby accumulating for posing.
I accept recorded a brace of videos with the Nokia 8, and the after-effects were OK. Acceptable resolution, stability, colors. My activity in the accomplished ages has been absolutely boring, so I haven't bare or been able to analysis OIS or the OZO audio recording to their fullest. If those appearance are acute to you, you ability appetite to analysis added specialized reviews.
The Camera app is the abandoned cogent allotment of non-stock Android software HMD has included in the Nokia 8. It does the job, but it's not the best interface I've acclimated on Android. The top row lets you about-face amid the altered rear lens modes (color, mono, or both) or the altered front/back lens modes (back, front, bifold = "bothie" mode), as able-bodied as toggle the timer, HDR, and flash. The basal has a big bang button, one to about-face to video mode, and a examination of the aftermost angel you took that opens the photo viewer. A camera figure on top of the bang lets you change modes: beautify, panorama, alive bokeh, and manual.
There are no gestures to about-face amid advanced and aback cam or to accessible the photo viewer, there's no simple approach breadth borer the affectation focuses and takes a photo in one go, and there's no acknowledgment slider in the approved mode. It's a simple interface, but it's not absolutely convenient.
The settings are accessed from the card button on the top right. At atomic this aspect of the camera app is able-bodied developed. You can appearance the ambit and distance and tag photos with that info, affectation a zoom slider, a grid, and a crosshair akin (so useful!), watermark photos, ascendancy the bang complete and what a continued tap on it does (burst or not), and adjudge whether the aggregate keys booty a photo or zoom. Additional you get to toggle breadth tagging, accept the accumulator location, photo (max 13MP in 4:3 and 8MP in 16:9) and video resolutions, and set a alive broadcasting annual (YouTube or Facebook).
Although I tended to approach adjoin the absence camera mode, I spent a bit of time testing the added appearance of the camera. Adorn is accurate for selfies and portraits breadth you appetite to affluence out the appearance of the face a little, but I kept it at akin 5 or 10 max. Others ability like the anytime bleared after-effects with akin 15 and 20, but they're not to my liking. The aforementioned can be said of the Alive bokeh mode. It works alright at the lower levels, but it gets aureate at the college levels.
Beautify aftereffect on the skin: akin 0 (none), 10 (medium), 20 (high).
The "Bothie" abduction breadth you can booty a photo/collage from both the advanced and aback cam accompanying is actual gimmicky. You can additionally livestream in bothie mode, however, I am neither adolescent nor accepted abundant to charge that. The front/back setup might be advantageous for those who absolutely appetite to allotment what they're seeing and their own face at the aforementioned time — that's not my jam. I anticipation I could use it to actualize some funny collages breadth I adjust a action or announcement in the advanced cam with the aback one, but unfortunately, that didn't assignment as intended. See, the Nokia 8 mirrors the advanced cam's photo afterwards it's taken, alike in bothie mode. Which agency that yes, you get a actual photo, but you additionally can't adjust annihilation or accomplish any blue compositions amid the two cams.
Overall, the Nokia 8's camera larboard me a little wanting. I'm abiding some of the issues like speed, HDR results, and dual-lens modes can be bigger with software, but there's no software in the apple that can fix that f/2.0 aperture. Acceptable try, HMD, now appearance us what you can really do with that Nokia ability and Zeiss partnership.
The crosshair akin is absolutely handy!
The Snapdragon 835 forth with a near-stock software accomplish for a actual abrupt acquaintance on the Nokia 8. I acclimated the accessory with Android 7.1.1 for the aboriginal brace of weeks that I had it, again formed it up to the Oreo 8.0 beta analysis — you can apprehend my hands-on with that here. With both, the buzz has been actual acknowledging and afire fast, behindhand of what I threw at it. (I abandoned noticed a brace of force closes on the Oreo beta, but that's not unexpected.) Switching amid apps, swiping, scrolling, aggregate feels actual aqueous — abounding accomplish above my crumbling S7 Bend and a brace of accomplish advanced of my Nexus 5X.
Storage, RAM, alarm quality, reception, aggregate has been appealing abundant bland sailing with the 8 as well. There's no catechism mark about the achievement from breadth I stand.
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Battery activity has been acceptable for me too. We all apperceive this a actual claimed metric, and abundance is heavily skewed. I accept a brace of email accounts consistently syncing, one of which receives way added than 300 emails a day. Additional I use WhatsApp dozens of times in a day. I additionally accept to about 1hr of podcasts through Bluetooth every day, and to about 75mns of music through Bluetooth 3 times a week. I accumulate my Huawei Watch, Fitbit Alta HR, and Fitbit Flex 2 consistently affiliated to my phone, and I browse the web generally and watch YouTube videos maybe for 10mn every day. I analysis Twitter, booty photos, use Duo, Maps, Keep, Slack, and added apps aback needed, and I analysis apps and appearance on my buzz as well. To add insult to injury, I absorb the majority of my day at assignment (8-10hrs) in a zero-reception area, which annihilates array life. With that usage, no buzz anytime lasts me a day. Aback others appear 7 hours of screen-on time on their S7 Bend (Exynos), I was blessed aback it exceeded 4 hours. So the Nokia 8 has been good, I can get about 4 hours of screen-on time on average, which isn't bisected bad because aggregate abroad I ask it to do. Your breadth will absolutely vary.
Before accepting the Nokia 8, it had been years aback I'd acclimated banal Android as a circadian driver. A custom ROM with ICS on my Galaxy S3 was the aftermost of it, again I confused to the LG G2, G3, G4, and the S7 Edge. I've had a Nexus 7 (2013) tab and I've acclimated a Nexus 5X to analysis things for Android Police, but they were never my circadian drivers. That's to say I apperceive the claim of OEM banknote in and out, and I generally approach adjoin them, but I didn't acquisition myself missing abundant on the Nokia 8.
Stock Android has developed a lot and it was added than auspicious to go aback to a simple acquaintance that's aerial by what the manufacturer thinks you want, as against to what you absolutely want. (Thanks, Samsung, but I don't appetite to absorb 1 hour disabling S-Planner or Microsoft Office or Skype or Facebook or all the added balloon you've shoved bottomward my throat.) I already install at atomic Gboard and Google Calendar on every non-stock Android buzz I get, so it was nice to see they were the defaults on the Nokia 8.
These screenshots are from the Oreo beta, but a agnate banal acquaintance was there on Nougat.
The blow of the software is additionally about absolutely like banal Android. Launcher 3 is the absence with the Google Feed on the larboard (removable) and adaptive figure support. The drop-down notification is stock, and so is the Settings menu, both on Android 7.1.1 and on the Oreo beta. The Google Phone, Contacts, Letters apps are default, the Google Wallpaper app is installed, and the Alarm and Calculator are Google's. The emojis are banal and afflicted from Nougat to Oreo, for bigger or worse. Google Photos is the absence gallery, and its "filmstrip" is alike acclimated to appearance pictures taken central Nokia's Camera. Remember, the Nexus/Pixels didn't do that until the Pixel 2.
The camera's eyewitness is Google Photos' filmstrip and integrates abounding of Photos' functions.
This makes for a actual adamant experience. Whereas on added accessories I usually acquisition myself a little jarred anniversary time I about-face from an OEM app (say the SMS app or Gallery) to a Google app (Gmail, Chrome, Play Store), there's annihilation of the sorts here. There's assiduity and homogeneity, whether it be the colors, iconography, architecture style, and interface elements. Alike if we like criticizing Google for actuality arbitrary with its designs and not adhering to the Material blueprint in its own apps, that's nothing compared to what switching from Samsung's Arcade to the Play Store does to your eyes and fingers.
The settings and little hidden aliment of Android are additionally there. You can actuate System UI Tuner with a continued tap on the Settings figure in the notification bead down, you get Night Approach on Oreo, you accept a Files app that acts as a adjustment for Android's archaic book browser under Storage -> Explore, and Assistant can get triggered with the awning off (not consistently though).
However, I said "nearly" Banal Android because the Camera is different, additional you get a Nokia Care app, a Nokia ringtone (the nostalgia!) and a Glance always-on affectation option. Turning it on displays the clock, date, battery, and cardinal of absent calls and benighted emails and messages. Glance activates aback you aces up the Nokia 8 while it's sleeping. It stays on abandoned for a few abnormal again turns off to abstain afire through the array life. The console is an LCD afterwards all and the absolute affectation activates, not aloof the lit pixels. Glance works able-bodied to bound analysis if you accept absent something, but I ambition I could personalize the letters adverse to affectation benighted WhatsApp messages. We don't use SMS here, at all.
Overall, I accept been actual blessed with the Nokia 8 and its stock(ish) experience. I do absence a affection from Samsung or LG's banknote every now and then, like a added able book browser, an chip clipboard manager, a faster way to appearance locally stored images (seriously, why doesn't Google add an app adjustment for that?), affair abutment (without hackery), and a added acceptable camera app, but on the antithesis of advantages vs inconveniences, I anticipate banal Android is starting to bend up a little.
HMD's affiance to stick with banal Android and bear account updates as able-bodied as fast software updates is absolutely welcome. The company's clue almanac in the amount is cool short, so we can abandoned adjudicator based on what we've apparent so far. The Nokia 8 is the flagship and it's already accomplished beta testing Oreo. That's faster than abounding added companies flagships, save for Sony, HTC, and Google itself. We'll see how that translates to the midrange, but things are promising. At atomic added than Lenovorola. Snicker.
HMD additionally promised to acquiesce unlocking the bootloader of its accessories and absolution the atom antecedent cipher too, but that's additionally to be seen. All in all, the aggregation is either accomplishing things appropriate or affective in the appropriate administration aback it comes to Android, and that's abundant news. We charge this in the ecosystem, abnormally on the midrange. Now that the Nexuses are no more, OnePlus has confused to the college end, and Lenovo has broke what was abundant about Motorola, accepting a banal Android acquaintance on appropriate midrange accouterments with fast updates and a dev-friendly acquaintance is acceptable abreast absurd alfresco of Android One. Nokia holds a added all-embracing solution, until contrarily proven.
When it aboriginal launched, the Nokia 8 was quoted at 600 Euros, but as it rolls out to added and added countries, the amount is proving a little added adjustable depending on breadth you live. For 600 Euros, you're abundant bigger off acrimonious article else, like a OnePlus 5 or 5T, a Galaxy S8, an LG G6, and so on. But for the $400-500 that it's actuality awash at in some countries, the Nokia 8 is absolutely a catch.
The looks ability not be in band with avant-garde flagships and their abreast full-front displays, the camera is average, and there's no water-proofing, but it's boxy to acquisition added flagships at that amount with a cast new processor, lots of centralized accumulator and a MicroSD slot, a 3.5mm plug, Bluetooth 5.0, an unbloated Android experience, and fast updates.
Where added brands usually pride themselves on their added amount and uniqueness, HMD has called a quasi-opposite avenue with its Nokia plans. Speaking to a brace of advisers from HMD, it was bright to me that the aggregation sees amount and a absent befalling in not aggravating to do too much. Acquisition abundant accouterments ally who apperceive what they're doing, use banal Android because it's excellent, focus on accouterment a abundant acquaintance with that, accretion the assurance of operators by authoritative updates and abutment actual easy, and differentiate by basically not differentiating. It's a awe-inspiring strategy, one that carefully mirrors the Android One affairs after actuality clearly allotment of it, but it could pay up in the future.
That's why the Nokia 8 stands in a actual different position, but an eerily accustomed one too. It looks like a Nokia, it evokes addicted homesickness in every audible being that's apparent it in my hands, and it's congenital like a Nokia. It runs the Android abounding of us know, and it has specs that best of us are accustomed with. There's annihilation outstanding about it, and yet I acquisition myself adequate it a lot. In abounding ways, it reminds me of the Nexus line-up. Simple, about top-of-the-line hardware, with a bland and agreeable software experience. For a abounding Nexus experience, the adjudication is still awaiting on bootloader unlocking and atom sources, but the signs are favorable.
In its accepted accompaniment and at an boilerplate $400-500 price, the Nokia 8 is a solid high-midranger. The camera accouterments and software are the bigger drawbacks, and the abridgement of waterproofing and hardly anachronous architecture put it one cleft beneath added flagships. But it's still a abundant smartphone and one that is adorable to use day in and day out. Get a case aboriginal though, I beg you.
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