A 64 MP camera with ZEISS cinematic effects and 2.8 m super pixels is available on the Nokia 8.3 5G, which is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 765G Modular Platform.
Nokia 8.3 5G
I recently purchased a Nokia 8.3 5g. Now I'm going to write a review for the Nokia 8.3 5G. Aside from being an absolute mouthful to say, you're getting a mid-range snapdragon 765 g5g chipset, six gigabytes of ram, a 4500mah battery, a 64-megapixel main camera, and a 6.81 inch 1080p 60hz ips LCD. I really hope this thing has good software and good cameras because it'll need a lot to save it at this price range. with those requirements, Let's start with the software. It has a unique set of capabilities because it's running Android, Google's clean, fresh operating system meant to stay up to date and not become outdated.
Clean fresh operating system
It's running Android One, Google's clean fresh operating system designed to stay up to date and not bog down as easily as some of the heavier skins on mid-range phones. It's based on android 11, and on the face of things looks very clean. There's not much going on here apart from like a custom camera app and a few other little things and it feels and operates very smoothly. It's not for those who want bundles of features. It's no-frills. It's clean and I don't particularly like the front-facing branding. It's nice because it harkens back to older devices that frequently had branding on the front (think of old Samsung smartphones), but in a sea of smartphones with very clean front designs.
Absence fingerprint scanner
The Nokia badge just looks a little out of place. Nokia fans, on the other hand, will appreciate it. The 3.5-millimeter headphone port will also be liked, but not the fingerprint scanner, which may be capacitive but is unreliable and sluggish. So I'm not sure about that and the phone feels vast in the hand due to the massive 6.81-inch display. Which is way too large for me. However, I know people who enjoy watching movies on a huge screen and this will fit them perfectly. That said, bigger doesn't necessarily imply better. At 1080p, I feel. It has as much resolution as it needs, especially on a mid-ranger, but the refresh rate and display technology do worry me.
Cheaper phone
When you buy a smartphone with an LCD. You usually get a 90 or 120x refresh rate because you're giving up the quality of an OLED for the speed of ips. However, you're not getting either of those things; instead, you're getting an IP, which is the lesser of the OLED and ips in smartphones and you're getting 60 hertz instead of 90 hertz or 120. This means you're compromising a lot on the screen just to get it to be 6.8 inches. Don't get me wrong, this isn't the worst display ever, and people looking in this market will likely be satisfied because it's a cheaper phone, but given that you can get a poco x3 pro for much less money with much more performance and a faster screen. It's telling of Nokia's premium badge here. Speaking of performance, the 765 5g and 8 gigabytes of ram found in this review unit performed admirably.
Some lagging parts
There were some lagging parts and it struggles a little bit in higher-end 3d games, but the longevity of this device is more important. It already had a mid-range chipset, so buying one in the future will be more difficult to recommend, purely because mid-range chipsets will have less power going forward and with a flagship smartphone. You tend to get more longevity because it's more than powerful out of the gate if that makes sense and it deteriorates to a good level. Whereas this was already okay and it's going to get worse. I managed to get two days out of it and those were the two days that I was testing the device, so taking photos and stuff like that. I wasn't connecting to a smartwatch and I wasn't using loads of 4g. So I was mostly using wi-fi. So you're probably going to get quite good mileage out of this thing.
Camera
Next, given everything else and the price, the 8.35 g needs to be able to perform only to make up the ground, which regrettably does not work in decent illumination. This thing takes decent photos, at least with the main camera. The images skew a little bit towards slight overexposure and there's not a whole lot of dynamic range but in flatter lighting conditions. It's not all that bad and the 12-megapixel ultra-wide is pretty good because a lot of other models go for like a 5 or an 8 megapixel, whereas Nokia went for the 12-megapixel unit here. Which is good but not quite as good as the 5 or 8-megapixel unit. It's just not quite as good as a 64 megapixel main, and the consistency is not s21 ultra, but it's usable in low light, though not as much as something like a pixel 4a with its amazing computational photography, even though this has a larger sensor. To be honest, it's not a photographer's smartphone and it never really was.
Not gaming smartphone
The problem is that it isn't a gaming smartphone and it isn't the best value for money, so who is it for? If you're not a gamer, don't like to shoot a lot of images with your smartphone, and aren't searching for the best value for money, this is the phone for you. Who is it for? Well, it's for folks who enjoy Nokia, which is OK. If you like Nokia and want to stick with the brand, that's good. Go for the smartphone, it's not a bad smartphone, but there are better deals on the market, especially from Xiaomi and real I and I feel like those really push this thing into a very niche sector of the market. Is it a bad smartphone?
