Gadgetory

at MWC this year knock you in hmd global unveiled a litter of new smartphones and at least one new dumb phone whilst the Nokia 800 Co was definitely the big flagship of the set it was actually the Nokia 7 Plus that in many ways garnered more attention that's because it represented at least on paper some serious bang for your buck why do we get a Nokia 7 plus and a Nokia 8 Sirocco I don't know because hmd is quirky I guess for considerably less than a flagship device at 349 99 here in the UK the Nokia 7 plus nevertheless manages to give you a lot of flagship e goodness that means things like an 18 by 9 aspect ratio a dual lens camera with bokki mode really impressive build quality but whilst it's very good on paper let's take a closer look and see if this is really the premium affordable device to beat so first up the design which really is quite eye catching and impressive this device is machined from a single block of 6000 series aluminium and it's coated with multiple layers of ceramic paint that not only gives it a nice matte feeling in the hand but it also manages to hide any visible antenna lines so it's a nice sleek finish all down the back it's not to fingerprint e and it feels nice and grippy in the hand it's a slim device it's light and it has this nice color accent around the edge always bronze but you can get the body in either black or white on the hull it looks and feels like a fairly premium device it's not going to compete with a top of the range Samsung but it's definitely a lot nicer than your average budget phone that's for sure as I mentioned it's also got an 18 by 9 aspect ratio so this phone feels nice and modern in keeping with current trends also means you get a nice big 6 inch space to consume media whilst it's not an AMOLED display it is a very good high-quality IPS LCD display with great color reproduction it's 1080p by tu-160 and it's great for consuming media good viewing angles good brightness overall a great experience and I can't really fault the display the speaker of course is also important for consuming media and whilst it's in prime location for blocking with your hand loss gaming it is nice and loud and certainly gets the job done more importantly you'll also find a headphone jack up top which a lot of people are going to be very happy about there's a fingerprint sensor around the back which I find works really quickly actually and that's also where you'll find the nice dual lens camera one above the other right in the middle and I'll talk more about that in a moment you can swipe down on that fingerprint sensor to bring down the notification tray though this setting is off by default just FYI there's no water-resistant rating so you will have to be careful with this device but otherwise it's solidly built and very reliable but unless you're going to hang this thing on the wall then what's far more important than the looks is the performance and fortunately it does fairly well in that category too it's powered by a Snapdragon 660 backed up by 4 gigabytes of RAM and it's part of the Android 1 program which means that you'll get regular security updates and OS updates for at least two years and hmd global have been very good with that in the past so far the 660 isn't widely used outside of China yet but it performs very well especially when paired with that pure version of Android which ensures that navigating the UI is never a struggle everything nips along breezily you can swipe for your images you can multitask with no problem the 4 gigabytes of RAM seems ample for that and gaming is absolutely fine you should have no problem running anything on the Play Store to give you an idea of how the CPU is going to perform it's roughly equivalent to say a Galaxy Note 7 I will say that whilst the performance has been very good for me on the whole though I have had a few glitches and setbacks at one point my camera got stuck in the wrong orientation so it was sideways when my phone was portrait and vice versa which was strange I've had the occasional stutter had a few apps crash on me and for some reason my Bluetooth headphones really don't wanna play nice with it and neither does my garmin vivoactive so I don't know if that's a defect in my unit but I've got to review the phone I have in front of me and yeah that's a bit annoying a little bit glitchy I also had some problems with audio syncing with the camera which I'll talk about more in a moment every now and then during gaming I've noticed a slight stutter likewise when switching to my google feed so it's not a perfect experience but you probably won't expect that for the price and it's certainly more than serviceable and should be fine for most of your needs one other thing I wasn't super happy with day was the auto brightness and I found that it was a bit too sensitive and jumpy so it would just go straight from being very dim to being very bright just as I walked underneath the shadow and eventually I just had to turn that off because I found it irritating again your mileage may vary it might mean me just being sensitive but that's what I found anyways of course that Android one membership is also going to be a boon for anyone who likes that pure Android experience it means that there's no bloatware and anyone who's familiar with using a pixel should bank this is a relatively similar experience personally I they've mined a bit of a UI layer and a little bit of bloatware I find that it can be nice to have something unique to play around with when you get a new phone out of the box but that's a matter of opinion and I know that a lot of people much prefer the pure stock Android experience there's also 64 gigabytes of storage which is generous and that's expandable by up to 256 gigabytes via an SD card aDNA problem with signal call quality was very good no dropped calls or anything like that my Wi-Fi came through nice and strong so on the whole it performed well knock it calls this the phone that you can rely on and on the whole I'd say that's true apart from the occasional glitch that I noticed some of that I'm hoping might be ironed out with future software updates what's really impressive is the battery which is a 3,800 milliamp hour and when you combine that with the Android one pure experience it's more than sufficient see through a day in fact most people should have no problem getting a day and a half even on moderate to heavy usage and some people should have no problem getting all the way to two days so that's nice and that's the kind of thing that really does make a phone feel reliable because it means that it's always there and always on when you want it it can also charge really quickly up to 50 percent in 30 minutes through the USB type-c port and on the whole it's very good for those kinds of power users something that HMT has been really keen to focus on and no pun intended is the camera set up on the devices and the Nokia seven-plus has a particularly compelling suite when compared to others at this price range so you're getting not only a primary shooter of 12 megapixels backed up by a 13 megapixel telephoto lens which gives you 2 times optical zoom but also a front facing camera with 16 megapixels it's all Zeiss branded and on top of that you're also getting the both II mode the dual lens gives you the ability to do bouquet and portrait mode you're getting the same image sensor as found in the pixel 2 and on the whole it looks like there's an awful lot of promise here and you're getting the spatial audio recording which should give you the ability to record surround sound so in theory this is a really good device for content creators for social media junkies and reading some of the other reviews I'm allowed to do that when I'm reviewing a phone I found that a lot of people really rated this camera highly considering its class personally though I guess I went into it expecting little bit too much and I was slightly disappointed slightly let down by it I found that occasionally it would be overexposed sometimes it was hard to get the exposure right things would be weirdly bright for apparently no reason I got blur quite a lot the time even when I was trying to be still there's no optical image stabilization and the electronic image stabilization seems to me to be a bit iffy I guess or the shutter speeds a bit slow either way there's a pro mode which of course means you can tweak things like the ISO the shutter speed the aperture all yourself but for me I think a good phone cameras one that you can just point and shoot and especially if it's the marketing itself towards people who use a lot of social media the Botha mode is something of a gimmick so the idea is that you record from the rear camera on the front camera at the same time and this would then allow you to share moments with friends or stream things on facebook which you can still do and it's a nice idea in theory although not all that useful in practice and especially when you consider there's apps out there that can already do this on pretty much any device I thought I'd give it a go though say when I was walking home from Avengers infinity war I thought I'd do some vlogging for my personal YouTube channel so I walked down a path and I was talking I thought I'd show where I was going at the same time as sharing my V's on the film unfortunate when I got home after recording for about ten minutes I found that the audio is out of sync with the video and I couldn't use it which obviously was a bit disappointing and considering that this is supposed to be a great camera for both these and for audio it was a little bit of a letdown really good workout because I used infinity war as my pre-workout and was pumped it's an awesome film I highly recommend it it was I was gonna film some parkour don't get me wrong though this isn't a terrible camera by any means and if you are willing to put in a bit of work then you can get some nice photos it's nicely saturated which I personally enjoy it has very good low-light performance although if you zoom in closely you'll notice a bit of noise and lots of detail it's got a nice aperture F 1.75 which means you can get some great shallow depth of field effects going on and which means you can get lots into the frame the selfie camera on the other hand is only f 2.0 as I tried to use this to record myself in the gym and not only was it too zoomed in to really work in that context but it also was again overexposed very bright and dark and patches and I couldn't really use it of course having two times optical zoom is very nice and so is having that second lens so that you can do the portrait mode or the bucket effect I will say that if you're not using a pixel then very often this is a bit fiddly and hit and miss this is no different but if something else to play around with then it can result in some really nice portraits so on the whole I'm not knocking this camera it's very good for the price I'm just saying don't expect it to be on par with a flagship quite and if you're a social media professional or if you're a content creator or an Instagram aficionado then I would say that perhaps if you have a bit more money by a pixel - or a galaxy s 9 something like that if you have a limited budget and you want a phone with a decent camera then this is it so on the whole to sell my experience with the Nokia 7 plus I think it's a great phone it's not outstanding really in any way it's not going to turn heads with the design the camera isn't comparable to a premium device even though it comes close and the performance is similar to a flagship a couple of generations back but for the price it's still really good as a really well-made device it's true that it let you down the battery life can go for days the screen looks great it feels really good in the hand and there's lots of cool options to play around with in the camera obviously Android ones gonna be a big advantage for a lot of people as well and on the whole it's just a solid stable reliable and well made phone that is fairly easy to recommend so thanks time for watching guys hope friends for useful interesting if you did then please leave like please share it around that helps us out immensely comment down below and let us know what you think of the nokia 7 plus and check out the full written review over at the website subscribe if you want more like this hit the bell button for notifications and check out Andra thority comm for more news reviews stories and more for we are your source for all things Android