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the hmd global has just unveiled what will be the first Nokia flagship running Android the Nokia eight is this the return to form that Nokia fans have been waiting for well it looks and feels a whole lot like a 2017 flagship and like many flagship that has a killer feature to set itself apart as Nokia has been known to do in the past they're putting the major emphasis here on the camera or should that be cameras and some unique trick should make it a great choice for content creators and the Instagram generation HMV themselves have described this as the ultimate device for documenting your life but doesn't do enough to compete with the other heavy hitters out there if those madmen know HMV global as a Finnish company that acquires the nokia license just eight months ago and has already given us the Nokia three five and six this is their first ever real flagship though so I was eager to see how it hold up and whether they'd be able to fly the flag proudly for the Nokia brand to look at this is off to a good start Nokia 8 has most of the hallmarks of a modern flagship while continuing the design language of the last three models it has an attractive and bass limb all our minim design with an average thickness of 7.3 millimeters if four point six millimeters of thinnest point and seven point nine millimeters it is thickest it comes in a matte silver matte blue polished blue and a very i grabbing polished copper these colors adorn the back of the device and not the front on the front you get a 5.3 inch quad HD - 560 by 1 440 display with 700 minutes of brightness it certainly looks very bright and crisp in my brief testing period so it's quite stunning from the rear but the device is also something of a fingerprint magnet and it's very slippery those bezels are also starting to look a little bit last year compared to some of the other top of the range phones it's also not waterproof but rather splash proof with an IP 54 rating and specs wise this is once again a very good flagship showing and it should be a trade blows of the likes of the s8 Nakia rate is powered by a 2.45 gigahertz Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 and it's backed up by four gigabytes of RAM this should make it more than capable of handling the most demanding tasks more interesting is some advanced cooling which makes use of a copper pipe and graphite shielding in order to disperse heat evenly across the phone that means there shouldn't be any noticeable hotspot on the body of the device and reportedly that'll let you push the performance harder and for longer another thoughtful design choice was placing the antenna at the top and the bottom of the phone which should prevent those from getting covered by your hand while you use it and it should allow for some of the best signal sensitivity in the industry potentially leading to a better battery life that battery is a 3019 milliamp hour battery with quick charge 3.0 the phone also comes with 64 gigabytes of internal storage but this will be expandable up to 256 gigabytes using an SD card in terms of software we can expect an entirely clean Android experience with no customization or bloatware this should also mean that the device will receive quick updates and Nokia promises that owning an ocular eight will be one of the fastest ways to get Android Oh in your hands of course that remains to be seen but I've been saving the best to last the star of the show here is definitely the camera the camera is a result of a partnership between hmd and Zeiss and it's the core experience that phone is designed around the rear shooter utilizes two sensors one color and one monochrome these two images are then combined into a single shot with greater contrast using image fusion technology this is basically what we've seen on other handset like the honor 8 and the honor 9 both those sensors are 13 megapixel but in a unique twist so too is the front-facing camera which utilizes the exact same camera module in fact that also need to get autofocus up front which is another rare feature for a selfie camera so the reasoning behind having a 13 megapixel camera on both the front and the back was to support what the company sees as a Nokia's killer feature the both see the Brophy feature allows users to snap photos or record video using footage from both the front and the rear camera split down the middle 5050 where they're shooting in this mode of recording regular video that can then be streamed directly to Facebook live or YouTube natively from the camera app and what also makes this a good choice of content creation is top tier audio recording which eases ozo audio using multiple microphones it can capture a high dynamic range and record binaural audio that means song watching your Facebook live stream with the headphones on will be able to hear stereo sound with no need to own specific software themselves so in theory the audio quality should be able to match the video quality when capturing your story on the move so I had to go at the cam and I found it to be a good shooter capable of some detailed contrasting shot I wasn't able to get the photos off the device though so we'll need more time to test before we can make a final verdict I'm also not sure the bo3 mode is really anything that couldn't be accomplished on any other device with the right app but having that feature so readily available means that more users will be likely to try it and it certainly really emphasizes what this phone is all about whether it's something we'll see more content developers using in future or main to be seen but more to the point this is about the 13 megapixel front-facing camera with autofocus that's a compelling feature and it's one that will no doubt appeal to vloggers backpackers or anyone else who enjoys telling the camera on themselves and when you couple that with a sleek design the pure Android experience and top of the range specs I'm sure there'll be a large audience for this phone the Nokia eight will be available globally on September the 6th for a price of five hundred and ninety nine euros we'll have a full review ready for you then so you can find out whether this truly as a competitive flagship from Nokia and whether it's a good phone to document your life with so thanks a ton for watching guys hope you found this useful and interesting if you did please consider leaving a like and subscribing to the channel and hit the bell icon if you want to be notified of future videos as we release them let us know in the comments down below what you think know curate you think you'll be using that both these feature of course check out the article on the website for more information and whilst you're there take a look around so we are your source for all things Android see how we're doing others