Conclusion and Verdict
One thing that must be told here is that this phone doesn’t look like the one from a company which has just started its business. In fact the team actually brought the brand name to its level. Well not up to that mark where the brand name was, Nokia 8 is clearly a phone that can be identified by a good brand.
Build quality? check; display? check; hardware performance? check; battery? check; camera? check; audio? check. Okay everything can be said with a check mark, there are still some factors which have a lot to improve on. Specially the camera; either it’s not up to what it could have been like before under the name “Nokia”. That doesn’t exactly mean it’s a bad camera but when you have used something better from a brand, what else you would say.
There could be software optimization, or the imaging sensor itself – sure it’s not the core hardware. Snapdragon 835 can do much better with good image sensors. On the other had Android Oreo is at its best in Nokia 8. The optics indeed are the Zeiss but what’s inside – the sensor? HMD Global has to bring that camera innovation back that was once the signature element of Nokia. Because, now is the time for what Nokia had done way before. Pro Camera app has to be back on this phone and the ones to come. Automatic camera? again check!
Even though I am not very happy with the grip of the phone, it’s good but you need to be careful while picking it up from the table. Design on the other hand is neat and clean.
Display has nothing to object on, it’s perfectly alright and up to the mark. The IPS display has done more than what it could have on any phone. Not to mention if it were AMOLED, it could have done even better. Glance screen has its limitation and when in dark, it clearly throws light out of it.
For a flagship phone, Nokia 8 does the job pretty well and it won’t let you down at anything. In last words, it’s won’t be incorrect to say that it s a good option among flagships like Galaxy S8 or Huawei Mate 10.
Nokia 8 in Photos
