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the Nokia 5x a really good first impression this is a device that looks and feels really premium despite a relatively affordable price tag whatever you buy a budget device you know that the manufacturers will have had to sacrifice certain features and performance in other areas whether or not this is a good value proposition for you will depend on whether those areas of things you can live without I'm Adam Shin it's key let's take a look at the Nokia five and see if it's a good budget choice for you so yeah the first thing you'll notice about na q5 is the looks and that's a good thing because this is a really nice looking device that's thanks to a unique body build which has a look that harkens back to the older Lumia devices it has a kind of two-toned appearance like it's wearing a jacket with the back and the sides being a different color from the main body on the front in my case this is a silver mapped chrome looking device you can also get dark blue you can get black and you can get something that looks like rose gold which seems to be very much in vogue at the moment for mobile phones it's not just the look that's impressive though it's also the way it feels in the hand it has a nice premium heft to it weighty and the sides are nice and cool and they're curved and it all just fits in the hand in a very ergonomic manner and that's an important thing seeing is you're going to be holding your phone a lot if it's your daily driver now it's not gonna win any awards for its looks it has a large bezel on the top and bottom and it's certainly not as outstanding or something like the s8 but if you like a device that makes you feel good when you put out your pocket then the Nokia 5 is very good for his price it wasn't actually developed by Nokia by the way but out sourced to a company called haitch MD global so that's a win for them the first sign that things aren't quite as premium as they feel though is the screen when you turn it on that is this is a fairly basic IPS display at just 720p resolution now a lot of people say they don't mind 720p and you might be in that crowd but if you're someone who really loves to consume media on the go then you might do well to treat yourself to something with a bit more vibrancy and a higher resolution so the screen size is 5 point 2 inches and in theory that should give you plenty real estate to work with in practice though the lower resolution actually meters that size a little so for example when you use androids multi screen multitasking feature you won't be able to change the size of the two different windows instead you'll be stuck with the 50% and 50% option also they tend to feel a little bit cramped when you're doing this so if you're someone who likes to use their device for productivity then again this is the consideration to keep in mind and the specs are another place where Nokia have clearly saved some cash so this is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 which is clocked at 1.4 gigahertz and backed up by 2 gigabytes of RAM the average user might not find this to be a problem you can download and run pretty much any app from the Play Store and that's true of most cheap devices in fact these days the issue will come for example if you want to play a high-end game in which case you might notice if you drop frames a little bit of stuttering and longer load screens likewise navigating the UI could definitely be smoother when you launch Google now there's a definite noticeable pause and when you're scrolling through large webpages there's also a slight stutter while multitasking works just fine despite the limitations in screen resolution that I mentioned earlier you will find that the occasional background app gets closed and that's due to the lower Ram again it's all perfectly serviceable a lot of people won't have an issue with it it's just that if you're looking for higher end performance and if you're so many loves gaming on their mobile device then this phone might not be the one for you what is likely to be an issue for the average user is the lower internal storage the nokia v comes with just sixteen gigabytes of on-board storage although it is expandable up to 256 gigabytes via a micro SD card but to me that's a poor substitute and I'd much rather have that space available right from the start at least 30 gigabytes of it especially as half of that space is going to be taken up as soon as you beat up the device other hardware features include a fingerprint sensor which works just about as well as any other fingerprint sensor which is to say most of the time but not flawlessly it has water and dust resistance up to IP 52 which means you can dribble on it or expose it to dust and it won't explode but you certainly shouldn't go swimming with it battery life is just fine it's only a 3000 milliamp hour battery but because it's just a 720p display and because relatively stock Android that should see most people through a full day now I'm quite a power user I open up a lot of YouTube videos and I use it the navigation with the screen on and I make lots of calls and I have no problem with it either I could easily get through to an evening without having to carry a charger with me there is quick dodge 3.0 but it's not quite as quick as it could be you'll find that you charge about 25% per half an hour that quick charge is delivered via a microUSB rather than the USBC which these days does feel a little bit backwards facing and it could hurt the future proofing for this device and future compatibility and unfortunately the camera is also distinctly average is 13 megapixels which is just fine but it's the lighter that's the issue with cameras coming out very dark lot at the time and in low-light settings it's nearly unusable as a flash of course but that doesn't make up for it you can only use that in certain situations and it tends to make things look very bright and shadowy and the camera wrap is distinctly uninspiring there are no fun features there's no filters and you can't tweak manual settings like ISO there is HDR though and there is auto focus so you can create some decent photos with a bit of practice and patience it's just that I wouldn't recommend this as a reliable camera to bring with you on holiday if you want to have photos really pop in the vibrant there's also a front-facing camera which is 8 megapixels and works just fine and both are capable of recording video at 1080p which ironically means you can't actually play it back at full resolution on the device you've filmed it on the software something that will make some users happy though because it's just basically stock Android there's pretty much no customization and there's no bloatware either this helps to keep things as nippy as possible on the relatively low specs and it also means that the battery life is optimized again for the relatively small battery because it's Android 7 that means you get access to cool features like Google assistant as well that's really useful whether you're navigating somewhere or whether you're asking for instructions was cooking ok Google how many grams in 3 cups of flour according to King Arthur Flour a cup of all-purpose flour weighs four and a quarter ounces at 120 grams thanks dear the fact that such a stock version of Android also bodes well for future updates that means that hopefully you'll have Android Oh rolled out to you soon after its released although of course you can make no guarantees on that it would have been nice to see some customizations from Nokia however and this is a very vanilla experience for instance it would have been nice to have a way to add a percentage on to the battery icon without having to go into the system UI tuner likewise there's no easy accessible shortcut if you want to do tethering on your mobile phone these might not be issues for a lot of people but just keep in mind that customizations aren't always an unqualified negative thing I always find it harder to review budget devices because when you spend less you know what you're getting of course you're not getting the very latest specs of course you're not getting the very best build quality like I say it comes down to what you want and what's important to you which compromises you're willing to make in this case you're getting a device that has a relatively poor performance although it is comparable to something like the Moto G 5 you're getting something that has a not-so-great camera so it could be worse but what's really good about it is the design so if appearance is important to you and if you like your device to be a fashion statement but you don't have the money to splash on something really new and expensive then the Nokia 5 is a good choice if you're somebody really loves consuming media who wants lots of space to take beautiful photos then you might want to spend that money elsewhere overall it's a good compromise for the right person hope you found this video useful and 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