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

So I needed a decent phone that has the flagship criteria and I didn't want Samsung or iPhone so I looked at this Nokia 9 PV. First of all, I wouldn't pay this phone at its retail $700. Best Buy had it on sale for $450 and that's when you wanna get it. After a few days of use, the phone itself is great, fast, easy to use and it just works. Now the goods: The pOLED screen is just simply gorgeous to see. It supports HDR so watching Netflix/Youtube contents that support HDR is awesome. The phone is easy to hold but it's easily slips away from your hand. Get a case or you're gonna drop it break it lol. The 6" screen is just right on point. Not too small or big. Just feels right. No stupid notch! (that's right Apple/Google/millions other manufacturers). Now the not-so-goods The flaws come in on its greatest features...the camera itself. It takes awesome photos when you use it right. The processing though...is something else. Since all 5 lens take a photo at the same time, it could take a few seconds to compile a single photo. My time was 12 seconds...more or less. Once the processing is done, the results is amazing. Hopefully Nokia fixes this with the next software updates. Another flaw is the fingerprint sensor. It could take a few tries to recognize my thumb and sometimes I just use the pattern key instead. Hopefully software update will fix this issue. No SD card slot and no 3.5 jack...yes this still matters to me but Nokia provides an USB C adapter for it. If you take pics in RAW that 128GB storage gonna fill up soon fyi. Would I recommend it? At $700 - NO. How about at $450 - YES. Also get an open box if you can find one. I got it for $350 and it's a steal.

It's great until you go take low-light photo. I got this phone less than a month ago, and today I finally had a chance to take it on a test on low light condition. Baam, my sluggish camera now acting up with blank boxes in some of pictures. (raw format) Buy this phone for great display with hdr, but not for the camera..

Positives: 1. Design. 2. Camera. 3. Overall performance and display. 4. Decent battery. 5. Clean Android 10. Negatives: 1. Worst Fingerprint sensor everseen. 2. No expandable storage but enough storage i guess. 3. Thick bezels on the front, can do better. 4. Camera app response, can be improved with better updates. 5. Lack of Stereo sound.

and now it is here in my hands a new Nokia phone, and a PureView at that. i don't care that they have a newer chipset coming out this phone seems fast to move from app to app. the picks are fast to take unlike other phones on the market. it does not have a head phone jack, but does have a USB C to jack adapter for that i am sure (i did not test it yet) but it did come with earplugs. it is slick.. as in it could slip right out of your hands and off things kind of quick. sure it is still new, but would pick it over any other phone on the market right now.

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.

This phone has a very good price point considering the snap dragon 845 is being used. The fingerprint sensor is not very good but software updates can always fix things. The camera has a very good depth ability with its time of flight sensor. This enables better focus and also the ability to add depth to your image after it has been captured, this goes beyond the bokeh effect by introducing various amounts of blur based off distance away from the focus point.

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.

I love the Nokia 9 feel top of the line smartphone 2018. The camera its amazing despite its takes a little time to process the photo but im ok with that. The speaker.....the speaker need to be improved in new models if you want to enjoy the beautiful screen watching media content. The speaker its so easy to cover and muffled. Beside that i love my new phone.