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Nokia 9 PureView promo video

Android One

5.99-inch 2K HDR AMOLED display
Zeiss Optics / five main cameras
In-screen fingerprint scanner
No notch or hole in screen
Snapdragon 845
6GB RAM 128GB Storage
3,320 mAh battery
 
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Unless 3/5 of those cameras have different optical zoom or something, I really don't see the point when you can see what software can do in the single-camera Pixel and iPhones. They're also pulling a LG (G6) launching a flagship phone with last year's SoC, which is fine if it's priced appropriately.
 
Considering Nokia/HMD's other offerings, I expect it to ring in around the OnePlus 6T price range. As for SoC, we're at the point where newer chips aren't actually DOING anything better, other than synthetic benchmarks anyways. The SoC on the Pixel 1 vs the Pixel 3 isn't noticable, it''s the OTHER improvements that make the upgrade worthwhile.

If this gets released with US band support, especially VoLTE on T-Mobile, this might be my next phone, if Samsung doesn't ship me a free S10.
 
Considering Nokia/HMD's other offerings, I expect it to ring in around the OnePlus 6T price range. As for SoC, we're at the point where newer chips aren't actually DOING anything better, other than synthetic benchmarks anyways. The SoC on the Pixel 1 vs the Pixel 3 isn't noticable, it''s the OTHER improvements that make the upgrade worthwhile.

I couldn't have expressed that any better.

If this gets released with US band support, especially VoLTE on T-Mobile, this might be my next phone, if Samsung doesn't ship me a free S10.
Same here, with VoLTE on T-Mobile being a mandatory feature for me.Will wait to see visual evidence of it working on T-Mobile.
 
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All their current phones are popping up on sale. Best Buy has the 6.1 on sale for $150 right now.
 
Must look into it. I like my smartphones FOR the cameras...most other features are secondary
If these 5 cameras add something to the experience....I might get one
 
Must look into it. I like my smartphones FOR the cameras...most other features are secondary
If these 5 cameras add something to the experience....I might get one

100% agreed. I love the photos my iPhone has taken of my kids in portrait mode, so something that works as well would sell me. The 10x optical zoom of the Oppo is interesting as well.... I just can't get over that Oppo is "poop" spelled inside out.

Edit: Also... 845 though? For a flagship? :(
 
If you look into it, the differences to real world use in the last few snapdragons is marginal, so having an 845 wouldn't bother me.
Must look into the Oppo though. Only heard about it the other day
 
599 € here in Finland. Yes, it does have Snapdragon 845 but at least the price is more sensible than in other new phones. Thumbs up for notchless display.
 
599 € here in Finland. Yes, it does have Snapdragon 845 but at least the price is more sensible than in other new phones. Thumbs up for notchless display.

I don't like large phones but due pricing, Android One and having all features I want like under-display fingerprint scanner, reasonable battery, no notch or hole and great camera makes this highly interesting still.

Maybe in a year (don't want to pay more than 350~399€) this is my next phone when I drop my Samsung S7 finally :p
 
I don't like large phones but due pricing, Android One and having all features I want like under-display fingerprint scanner, reasonable battery, no notch or hole and great camera makes this highly interesting still.

Maybe in a year (don't want to pay more than 350~399€) this is my next phone when I drop my Samsung S7 finally :p
Then again Xiaomi Mi 9 is 4XX €... And it has a really nice camera too.
 
I might get this pending TMo VoLTE. Biggest concern is getting this phone also means I need another phone next year, so maybe not. I think the 5G upgrade is too important to not get in the first year or two, and next year is year 2. But then I get a new year almost every year...
 
Nokia 9 vs. Galaxy S10+ camera samples. Nokia 9 is clearly ahead - the gap is huge if you ask me.
https://www.androidworld.it/2019/02/26/nokia-9-vs-galaxy-s10-fotocamera-614681/

Some crops (Nokia 9 first, then S10+):

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5 cameras? Thats a no from me. It looks ridiculous.

I don't care how many cameras it has, if it does anything to prop up the legacy of PureView and the amazing images those devices produce then mission accomplished. My 920, 1020 and 620 (even without Zeiss glass) during their time were years ahead of other phone cameras on the market. Don't even get me started on HAAC microphones and they are still being used today for bootleg concerts and filming music. Nokia were and are revolutionary, not evolutionary.
 
Ugh, why oh why?

"There is, however, no headphone jack, as HMD Global follows the flagship trend of ditching the aging port."
 
I don't care how many cameras it has, if it does anything to prop up the legacy of PureView and the amazing images those devices produce then mission accomplished. My 920, 1020 and 620 (even without Zeiss glass) during their time were years ahead of other phone cameras on the market. Don't even get me started on HAAC microphones and they are still being used today for bootleg concerts and filming music. Nokia were and are revolutionary, not evolutionary.

I watched the keynote about it and was actually impressed. I've been looking at other Nokia phones and what people have to say and honestly I'm really impressed. So much so that I'm really close to buying their 8.1 for my android daily driver.
 
I watched the keynote about it and was actually impressed. I've been looking at other Nokia phones and what people have to say and honestly I'm really impressed. So much so that I'm really close to buying their 8.1 for my android daily driver.
Aren't you a Washington State resident? The Nokia 8.1 is not for USA.
 
Just have to share the HAAC recording in this video. Listen with a reasonable set of cans and embrace the positioning. Yup, I really do enjoy Nokia's hardware. Had they gone for the low hanging fruit (under $200.00 smart phones) during their pairing with Microsoft and leveraged Nokia's distribution channels (they were the largest phone manufacturer in the world) the phone OS ecosystem might of had a third player.

https://forums.windowscentral.com/n...-1520s-haac-mics-still-stand-above-crowd.html
 
Correction, It is missing Bands 2, 4, 12, 66, and 71.
 
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Sobering video about it having a terrible fingerprint sensor, along with some critical comments regarding the camera. XDA forum members are also reporting a badly implemented finger print sensor and are criticizing the low light photos.


 
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That finger print sensor and the camera not being optimized for taking point-and-shoot photos eliminated all my interest to purchase it.

Of all the under-the-glass fingerprint readers I’ve tested, the Nokia 9 PureView’s is by far the worst. Training it is no problem, but the reader just won’t recognize your print after a half-dozen attempts. The worst part is the phone constantly asks you to press the display harder and harder. I practically broke the Gorilla Glass trying to get the phone to unlock.
Sorry, HMD, but you screwed this one up. The under-the-display fingerprint reader is unusable. If you buy this phone, you’ll do well to ignore it altogether and stick to a pattern, PIN, or password for now. Android Authority
 
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Hopefully it doesn't take them too long to get a good Nokia phone on market. Would love to see them back in the game and I thought this was going to be something worth considering... Guess I was wrong.
 
Mom got one to replace her Nokia 8 (I think Honor View 20 would have been better choice around that price range) thanks to dads brainwashing. I just got Huawei P30 to replace my Honor 8. Gotta say that it's a bit odd that top Huawei P and Mate phones are actually more Finnish than HMDs Nokias. Huawei does quite abit of research here and they have managed to snatch lots of ex-Nokia employees.

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Gotta say... Even this non Pro P30 has absolutely ridiculous low light capabilities. It's magic.
 
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Ugh, why oh why?

"There is, however, no headphone jack, as HMD Global follows the flagship trend of ditching the aging port."
Even worse, HMD ditched the Notification Led on all Nokia Smartphones !!!
This is something I won't accept. Sorry Nokia. I liked Symbian very much. I dislike those smartphones. Not the same spirit. It's 100% Google follower. No thanks.

I'm looking at Sony. They are using their Professional imaging technology now. The smartphone branch and the Imaging branch used to be apart, not talking to each other. Not anymore. They are working together to build future smartphones. Sony Xperia 1 is one of those.
Now, what I really expect from Sony is a compact smartphone 5'' screen with good camera.

And avoid especially Huawei and Chinese government controlled smartphone businesses. All the heads of their businesses are members of the communist party who keeps being what it always was. Their president is elected by the communist party for life, and he expressed his views to fight democracy and individual freedom all over the world. China helps Venezuela take over by their fellows. China has recently put in place a system to track all their citizen by cameras all over places (like in Orwellian 1984) and by giving them a citizenship value on their behavior all along. Buying Huawei means agreeing and supporting all this !
China has taken steps to force all the companies working in China to provide "citizenship behavioral" information on all their empoyees in China or abroad ! Take care what you wish for by buying chinese.
 
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I'm looking at Sony. They are using their Professional imaging technology now. The smartphone branch and the Imaging branch used to be apart, not talking to each other. Not anymore. They are working together to build future smartphones. Sony Xperia 1 is one of those.
Now, what I really expect from Sony is a compact smartphone 5'' screen with good camera.

I've had a few xperia phones and they're really solid. In this era of "OMG, there's a bezel! 0 star review!!!1!" the design is perhaps getting a bit dated, but they're really nice phones and have always felt quite premium in the hand. Personally, I don't mind bezels.
 
I've had a few xperia phones and they're really solid. In this era of "OMG, there's a bezel! 0 star review!!!1!" the design is perhaps getting a bit dated, but they're really nice phones and have always felt quite premium in the hand. Personally, I don't mind bezels.
Unfortunately their cameras suck. Their deddes language has been rather uncomfortable too thanks to sharp or sharpish corners.
 
Unfortunately their cameras suck. Their deddes language has been rather uncomfortable too thanks to sharp or sharpish corners.

I was generally happy with their cameras, but then again I only bought models with a newer exmor sensor- I haven’t used a Sony as my daily driver in a few years, so I can’t state how things are currently.
 
I hate when I read things like "the design is getting dated"...

...its a phone. They are all going to be rectangles with a speaker, mic, and a camera. Anything out of the norm just costs you more money for the sake of being different.
 
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