Nokia - 9 PureView with 128GB Memory Cell Phone (Unlocked) - Midnight Blue

1. Good specs but last years cpu. 2. Short on RAM. 3. Unbelievably fantastic camera. 4.Unusable finger print scanner. I would consider myself an early adopter in hardware and software. I switched from an essential PH-1 to this Nokia. My day job is SQL server developer and data science. Used the phone 1 day and could not deal with 85% failure of the finger print scanner. It makes 0 sense on why Nokia would release the phone with this terrible hardware. It would have been impossible to pass qa unless nokia is just trying to beat out market deployment time. I chatted with Nokia as soon as I discovered the problems, because I though I had bad hardware. I could not believe it would perform so poorly. Their response to me was so bad that I had a hard time believing I was actually not being punked on a TV show. They wanted me to wipe the phone and run it in safe mode. Their official response was to Uninstall everything. I was really upset. But, I performed a factory reset and tried the phone with only the pre-installed software. I took the phone to Best Buy and the person at the register had the same problem as I did with the non responsive finger print scanner. I then started looking online for reviews and discovered that every single review on the phone raves about the camera and says the finger print scanner doesn't work. That tells me that it is absolutely a design flaw. Nokia's cto and engineers should really think about how bad this will look in the market. They should remember how blackberry and HTC is no more. Enough about my review, take a look at their instructions. >>> Perhaps the cause of the problem is the third-party applications that you recently installed. To find out if this is the case, start the device in safe mode, in which only preinstalled applications work! Tip: In safe mode, some widgets from the main screen will be deleted. Take a screenshot so that later it is easier to restore them. - Press and hold the Power button. - In the window that appears, select and hold "Power off". The device will restart in safe mode. An inscription about this will appear at the bottom left of the screen. After going into safe mode, use the device as usual. Check if the problem has disappeared. Remember that only preinstalled applications are available to you. If the problem no longer occurs, the downloaded application probably causes the problem. To find it, follow these steps: 1. Restart the device. 2. Start deleting recently downloaded applications one at a time. After each removal, reboot the device and check if the problem has disappeared. 3. When the device starts working normally, you can re-install those applications that did not cause problems. Tip: Record the names of the applications you are deleting. So it will be easier for you to restore them. To return to normal mode, restart the device. - Press and hold the power button for a few seconds. - Select "Restart". If there is no such option, hold the power button for about 30 seconds until the device reboots. In safe mode, some widgets from the main screen will be deleted. In normal mode, you can add them again.

I generally don't write reviews (too lazy) but felt bad seeing some people slam the photos from this phone due to what is mostly an easily remediable issue (ridiculous ISO in default auto mode). - First off, touch unlock works 100% perfectly for me. Not sure why it does for me and not for others, maybe because I'm not using face unlock which I read can interfere? Or maybe because I was already using optical (not ultrasonic) finger scanning on my laptop and so am already used to being more careful and patient with it. Or maybe there is another software or hardware issue others have? - Daytime photos look natural and crisp even out of auto-mode JPGs. None of that pumped-up saturation and contrast I've seen from other phone cameras - Low light and high-dynamic range photos generally often look terrible using default auto-mode, in both JPG and RAW. For whatever reason the phone loves to blast ISO to 6400 in a heartbeat and even the five-sensor technology can't overcome that right now. I found that in all but near-pitch black situations, setting ISO to a more reasonable 1600 and a still-doable 1/30 shutter speed (even 1/15 in a pinch) led to MUCH better and often amazing results (especially with RAW and after processing in Lightroom). Hopefully Nokia issues an update fast to cap the overly aggressive ISO - In near pitch black, I haven't been able to get good photos no matter what the settings. Rather than noise, they're just muddy, even via RAW. My 1-inch sensor camera can resolve these situations far better -- noisy but detail is retained. I'm hoping Nokia/Light can improve the software algorithm (maybe through stacking?) to improve on this front. This is disappointing but probably ok, since how often am I taking pictures in near pitch black where I can't see in front of me? - I'm amazed how far we've come in a few years with smartphone processors, but loading, tweaking, and resaving a RAW right on the phone itself (in the Lightroom Android app) takes as little as five seconds all in. Compared to several minutes on my previous three year old phone! So for me, shooting and processing in RAW seems no big deal for those challenging low-light and HDR shots. In the time I spent writing this review I could've processed a hundred shots right on the phone... - I haven't played around much with the bokeh and post-shot focus but from what I've seen so far it seems to work well, bokeh looks gradual and believable. And it's kind of incredible to be able to set focus and adjust the bokeh level after the fact.

I had hopes that the camera would better than the 1020s, it is not. It is not even better than 950Xl. That said, I had to move as MS is abandoning mobile. Android is still a mess, even PIE, accept it. This is a nice unique looking phone. I immediately put mine in a case, so beautifully blue is covered. I find the screen pure and bright. The screen is a little sensitive, as I miss hit the keyboard often. I have no problems with the fingerprint reader. It works better than I expected. Face recognition works, but really, don't you feel stupid holding your phone in front of your face when you can punch in the pin faster. The 950XL had face recognition, also. The pin would be faster yet, if you did not have to press enter. So we are down to the camera. It is a good camera, compared to the mainline phones, I have looked at. But, for me, not better than my 950XL. I mostly shoot outside aviation photos, at distance and use the optical zoom and cropping to create the final zoom in my images. I need pixels. Five cameras with 12MP are still 12MP, just more data, not more resolution. I would shoot shots with the selfie, 20MP, but it has now focal range. I will close with this. The next question is would I recommend this to a friend, YES, if you are not happy with your current phone. It is fast enough, it had a great price $600, now $700, wait a while. If you are happy, wait for a better camera.

Well let me start off by saying I am a phone junky. I have bought and tested pretty much all the flagships available since 2017,and while i am a fan of the "full screen bezeless display" phones that are out most have a compremise in a area. and While I will say the bezels are "chunky" but doesn't bother me. the screen is a great size for me (6-6.5" is my sweet spot) and the design is simple and elegant. now the cameras are Fantastic the camera is the deal breaker for me on most phones. this camera setup has taken some fantastic pictures a dynamic range that i haven't seen. plus the ability to use lightroom is a huge plus to me. i know that all the other reviews on this phone knock the fingerprint sensor ,but for me it has worked fine only a few misreads. So overall i am very very pleased with this phone, so pleased this is my first phone review i have done. so dont expect a physical type fingerprint response if looking at this phone since the in display tech is still relatively new,and you will be pleased with this gem of a phone. Welcome back Nokia and thank you to HMD for resurrecting them.

Despite this phone's impressive camera hardware, it is rendered practically unusable by the Finger Print scanner it packs. The scanner has a fail rate of close to 80%. I spent 5 days counting -- every day I recorded the number of times the phone rejected my finger prints (both left and right thumb) and I averaged 80% failure. It doesn't matter how hard you press the screen, where you press the screen, or how you press the screen...the finger print is useless. If you look at other negative reviews, you'll see the exact same complaint...this wasn't an isolated incident. And as you can see from Nokia's responses to these negative comments, the only thing they recommend is to call Nokia tech support. Well, I did. Their response was laughable. They told me to factory reset the phone, twice. I did and nothing changed. Then a few days later, Nokia issues a Twitter statement saying people should use the face unlock feature instead. Are you serious? This is an expensive phone. I'm not going to ignore a major design and QA flaw just because there's a less-secure "workaround" ... that's beyond lazy and disrespectful to consumers. It's like saying "Well, we know the main breaks in your 2019 car don't work well, so we just recommend you use the parking break instead." Be serious, Nokia. This is incredibly disappointing. I would absolutely NOT recommend this phone to any friend, unless you want to spend 2-3 minutes in deep frustration every time you take your phone out of your pocket to unlock it.

This is my first new phone in over 3 years and I looked for quite a while before settling on this one. The good features are: excellent display (crisp text and easy to read); Perfect size (for me) as it is a bit smaller than my previous phone (Nexus 6p); the camera takes terrific photos that meet my requirements (ease of use, point & click); no bloatware (only the Nokia My Phone besides the standard Google apps); guaranteed updates and HMD is meeting that commitment; battery life for me has been very good but I am a light user compared to many; voice quality and reliability has been excellent on T-Mobile. For the not so good the fingerprint reader is very problematic. HMD has already said they are working on a fix for it. The Face Unlock works pretty well indoors but not as well outside. I generally just stick to a PIN code for now. Otherwise I am very pleased with this phone having had it for less than 2 weeks.

This phone is awesome. Very smooth and fast Android experience. This phone is very very fast. WiFi and network strength is very good. Loved the camera. It takes great photos. Little bit take time to process photos after I take, and front camera is also little bit slow to take photo, but they are going to send new update for camera soon. Fingerprint scanner is not doing good, but I'm okay with it (90% time work), but They are going to send new update to fix fingerprint scanner as well. BUT there is facelock or pin lock. Phone looks so stylish and premium. Screen is so beautiful and bright.

I have been a long time Nokia fan. I think this is adequate for what I need right now but it does need some major improvements. The processing power is extremely weak, the phone keeps crashing, cannot find camera error numerous times, and fingerprint scanning problems (however my wife suggested making a few verification accounts with the same finger) this seems to resolve the fingerprint scanning issue. Works about 80 percent of the time now. Overall I really like the phone but needs major updates to improve the speed, reduce crashes and errors.