right so call off the search parties at long last because the nokia 8.35 g is no longer missing in action it's right here in my sweaty grasp in fact ready to slip on out of its box for your view and pleasure and just to the bloody naked timer as well because this 6.8 inch behemoth is just about to grace the big screen as it's appearing in the latest double or seven blockbuster uh not a great deal to snuff it or whatever it's called when none other than mr bond himself will be rocking the nokia 8.3 as his daily driver although presumably his will have some sort of special feature where it spreads acid in people's face but the good news is you can own the nokia 8.3 before the film is even out because it goes on general sale on october the 8th and of course we're back in march when nokia first launched
the nokia 8.3 they announced it would be
costing 500 quid which at the time made
the most affordable 5g smartphone that
you could buy but of course fast forward half a year and now you've got the likes of the oneplus nord the real me x55g the moto g5g plus a lot of 5g smartphones costing between 300 and 400 pounds
so as we barrel our way towards the ask
end of 2020 is the nokia 8.3 5g still
attempting prospect well i'm going to
whip it on out of that box take you on a
full on tour of the hardware and the
software everything you need to know
ahead of my in-depth review and for more
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bell cheers i honestly can't believe
it's been half a year since this thing
was actually originally launched what a crazy six months but anyhow what you get in the box
is a porky pin device you also get a
manual several manuals i love it you got
a quick start guide and basically every
language ever invented i think
there's even one here in sanskrit yeah
i've also got your type c usb cable you've got your three pin pop-up plug and hmd has kindly bundled some hard shell earphones as well although they look like they'd be best used just as a spare pair when you're absolutely desperate and that right there is everything inside the box apart from the actual nokia 8.35 g itself of course i think there's no condom case bundled in there which is a shame because quite a lot of phones these days they come with just a basic protector to help keep it from getting all scratched up and there's no pre-installed screen protector here on the 8.35 g
either although you do at least get a
nice bit of gorilla glass on that back
end so hopefully that proved rather
rugged i got to say first impressions of
the aesthetics here on the nokia 8.35 g
is it's a nice looking device you've got
a layer of glass on back and front as
well and then an aluminium frame sandwiched in the middle with that lovely glossy finish just to match the rest of the phone and you've got a lovely deep
blue coloration as well with that of the
striation effect as the light catches
the back end like so apparently
it's all inspired by the polar lights i
just know it looks nice that's all and
sadly this is the only color option
available for the nokia 8.3 right now
but hopefully hmd will launch a couple
more in the coming months i really like
that sort of desert sand finish on the
nokia 5.3 for instance i'll tell you what though this is a 6.8 inch smartphone so it's one of the biggest blowers around even in 2020 so here's hoping that mr bond has got some proper big pockets in his tailor-made suit and at 220 grams it's a bit of a hefty bugger too the actual power button on the nokia 8.3 is a edge-mounted fingerprint sensor so let's just give that a little push in and there we go we've got some juice in the tank already i'm gonna get my sim card stuffed inside this as well in order to do a full proper review
and as you can see here you've got dual
sim support but if you do want to slap
in a micro sd memory card as well that
will have to go in the second sim
slot sadly and the nokia 8.35 g supports
microsd memory cards of up to 400 gigs
in size to expand the 64 or 128 gigs of
onboard storage still gives me goosebumps alrighty so the noki 8.35 5g is all set up and ready for action and let's start our follow-on tour with a bit of security and as i mentioned before you've got an edge-mounted fingerprint sensor here on the side of the nokia when the phone's high-end just tap your digits to that scanner and basically
straight into your desktops as you can
see there so far seems reasonably quick
and pretty reliable but
surprisingly uh but also awesomely a nokia
or rather hmd global has left in the
fingerprint sensor gesture support as
well so if you drag your finger down that
scanner as you can see it pulls down the notifications bar the sensitivity is a little bit iffy though so it looks like you have to
drag so quite slowly for it to actually
work and even then it's only some
other time it'll do it so you know what
you're probably better off just sort of
dragging your finger down the screen
like so and to back that up you've also
got a good bit of face recognition as
well if you can't use the sensor for
whatever reason as you can see again reasonably nippy now as with all nokia branded smartphones you get a lovely stock version of android on here the latest version of android android 10. and the great news as well about nokia smartphones is you're guaranteed two years of os upgrade so this will get upgraded to android 11 later in this year and then android 12 next year and you also guarantee three full years
of security updates as well on a monthly
basis definitely great use if you're in
it for the long haul and like a
lot of stock android smartphones as well
from like some water and stuff recently
you get a dedicated google assistant
button housed here on the left edge so
just a quick tap of that and the google
assistant will pop right up to help you
sort your out of course why you would
ever need a dedicated google assistant
but i'm not really sure because at any
point you can simply say it up and up they pop of course you've got all those great google services on here the likes of google pierce you can get your contactless payments on the go good old duo and all that of course if anyone actually ever uses dual now if you're a media fan you're bound to fall in love with this 6.81 inch pure display panel it is ips tech sadly not oled like many rivals such as the oneplus note offer for
a lot less cash but all the same it's
nice and bright and those colors look
pretty punchy it's a full hd plus
resolution 2400 by 1080 and even despite the gargantuan size of this display if you smush your face up nice and close while you're watching a video or whatever the image still looks nice and crisp the nokia 8.3 display has what hmd global terms always on hdr so basically you can display apparently up to a billion different shades of color and as you can see there you've got smart str to hdr upscaling as well so can convert those lesser quality video files and pictures and everything just boost the colors and the contrast to hopefully make it look better as for the speaker tech well sadly you do not get a stereo speaker setup here on the nokia 8.35 g it's just a single downwards firing speaker right here on the bottom and let's just bump it up to full volume and see what we got right now in 2020 for a price that won't have you eating beans on toast for every meal for the next decade or so so it may be working all on its lonesome but that bottom firing speaker is actually pretty powerful in fact if you stick your hand over it it'll get quite the tickle that's for sure clarity is not too bad as well but it is a shame that you do not get a proper stereo speaker setup especially as this is a 500 pound smartphone but at least you do a hahaha get a proper
3.5 mil headphone jack down here at the
bottom when it comes to the performance
the nokia 8.35 g certainly should
not be a sludge it's got the qualcomm
snapdragon 765g chipset packed inside
which we also found in the likes of the
oneplus nord the real me x55g it's a very capable platform indeed as you can see strong benchmarking scores here on geekbench and you'll easily be able to blast through the latest games like call of duty mobile stuff like that even on those high detail settings especially as you've got either six or eight gigs of ram stuffed inside this thing depending on how much money you throw at hmd
of course will it be able to handle
gaming over you know a good hour or
two long session well i'll be testing that
out for my full nokia 8.3 5g review as
for the battery life but you've got 4 500
milliamp cells stuffed here inside the
nokia 8.35 g so pretty comparable to a
lot of other mid-range smartphones and
hopefully should easily keep you going
through a full very intensive day and
maybe even through two days if you're a
bit more careful with it now let's
finish up with a quick squint of the
nokia 8.3 5g's very funky quad lens
circular rear camera setup now your
primary lens is a 64 megapixel effect
although it uses quad pixel tech which basically means it shoots in 16 megapixel resolution by default
and it uses four in one pixel bin in
tech in order just to brighten up the
images when needed now as you can see
it's quite a complicated ui here
on the nokia 8.35 g lots of different
features and toggles to play around with
you've got an ai mode which is activated
by default so as you can see here it's
recommending shooting a portrait mode style shot but you can dismiss that just with a quick tap at any point you can swap from that 64 megapixel primary lens to the 12 megapixel ultra wide angle lens instead and as you can see it actually spreads the view across the controls as well gives you a nice broad view of whatever subject you're trying to shoot and this area is also where you can swap to the 2 megapixel macro mode as well if you want an extreme close-up of your subject although to be honest an extreme close-up of veronica here might be enough to give most people nightmares no offense veronica one of the best things about the nokia 8.3 5g's camera tech is you get a butt load of bonus features including the likes of the pro mode as well which just allows you to fiddle around with all kinds of stuff like the iso levels the white balance to get a very specific kind of shot it's nice and easy to use all you've got to do is play around with these toggles and you can actually see the effects right there on the screen as well and at any point you can undo all your fiddlins with a quick swipe up of the shutter button like so and in the pro mode as well you can also shoot in full raw format and if you want to edit some pics on the fly or alternatively you can shoot at that maximum
64 megapixel resolution as well and
meanwhile the final lens in that rear
end setup is your bog standard 2
megapixel depth sensor so just help to
keep your subject sharp and help to blur
out the background just to help your subject really stand out and look proper lush and if you tap this little button down here you got a couple of extra bonus modes on top of the other stuff as well including a dedicated night mode so this can just take
several different shots of different
exposure levels fix them all together
and hopefully you'll get a nice brighter
result in those low light
situations and as you can hopefully see
there with the night mode enabled you
get much brighter background action here
in this test shot uh compared with just
shooting with a standard auto photo mode
and if you fancy yourself more as a
button cinematographer well the nokia
8.3 5g definitely has you covered there
as well because even the standard video mode has an absolute ton of different bonus features to play around with so as usual of course you can shoot up to 4k
resolution although sadly at 30 frames
per second not full 60. but if you're
trying to shoot a scene with some tricky
license very strong contrast the good
news is that even at that ultra hd
resolution you've got access to the
hdr feature your home movie should sound
brilliant as well with a good bit of ozo
surround sound audio capture as well so
everything in front of behind to the
sides of the camera will be
picked up and when you're listening on a
pair of headphones or something like
that you'll really get that sort of
surround sound effect and you've also
got a handy little wind noise reduction
filter here on the side as well
definitely good news if things get a
little bit blustery and as you can see
you can once again jump into that ultra
wide angle camera and apparently it
should be really really good at shooting
video even in quite low light situations
also hmd claims i'll be testing that out
for my full camera review you could also
shoot video with that macro lens as well although that's probably going to look quite cac you've got the action cam setting as well if you're going to be uh running around jumping doing whatever and shooting at the same time and then finally of course you've got hmds fantastic dual lens setups you can shoot with
both the front and the back cameras uh
once if you want to get your gorgeous mugs
slapped in there too but that's not all
because if you really fancy yourself as
an ex steven spielberg or christopher
nolan or whatever you've also got the
special cinema mode as well and with
this mode you'll shoot video at that
stretch cinematic style 21x9 aspect
ratio similar to what you'll get on the
likes of the cinema pro feature using sony's xperia one mark ii with this mode it always shoots at 24 frames per second but you've got a choice of 2k or 4k resolution all the way up to as you can see a mighty 60 megabits per second so that'll fill up your storage pretty fast but anyway i'll be testing that out and following my nokia 8.3 5g camera review so stay tuned for that and then if you flip around to the front you've got a 24 megapixel selfie cam as well and that certainly picks you up in far too much detail and that comes complete with the usual portrait mode smarts as well and can you get the pro mode on the go no you can't that's a shame so that right there in a nutshell is the nokia 8.3 5g quick tour of the specs the features the camera tech all that good stuff the
question is of course though are you still
excited about this bad boy despite the
fact it's been six full months since it
was actually first revealed and
obviously quite a lot has happened in
the interim certainly in the realm of
mid-range smartphones so be great to
your thoughts down in the comments below
and by the time you watch this i will
have been using this as my full-time
smartphone for about a week or so so
hopefully i'll be able to get you my
full review in the next sort of 24 hours
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