The Nokia 8.1: A Device with Promising Features but Pricing Concerns

Get one median that comes with four gigabytes of RAM and 64gb of storage, I feel for this price they should have given at least 128 gigabytes of storage or maybe a 6 gigabyte RAM variant and moving to the speakers for the most part, I would say it's sound a single speaker here, it is fine but I felt at times when I was watching a lot of YouTube videos even at max volume, I felt the volume could have been slightly better. And one thing that I've noticed is that after 80 percent if you keep the volume and you have to actually keep it because the speaker is not too to the volume actually gets very shrill. Let me actually play back one of my own videos so that you can get an idea, as you can see this is a max volume but it's simply not that loud about max volume, so I feel the speaker should have been a little bit louder and maybe they should have given stereo speakers considering the price point of this device.

The notch on the Nokia 8.1 is another feature that I'm not a fan of. The knotch, I feel as unnecessarily big and it doesn't do anything useful, it doesn't even have a physical LED notification light, so again if you like the knotch, you might like it but I feel the not just unnecessarily big on this one. Even when you watch YouTube videos and stuff, the notch actually comes in the middle even when you maximize and stuff, and there is nothing that you can do about it as of now, so the notch is unnecessarily big on this phone. In fact, I would say they should have gone with the Nokia 6.1 that had a more elegant notch.

The earpiece for the most part is fine, and signal quality was fine both on Airtel and Jio, but if you talk about the earpiece again, here I had a problem in situations like this where there's no noise or anything, the volume level is fine but in noisy situations even at maximum volume, I felt that the earpiece could have been better. Many instances where I was outdoor on the streets even at max volume, I had slight difficulty because the earpiece was not that loud.

So what do I feel about this smartphone? This is priced at 27,000 rupees in India, and I like the fact that it's coming with stock Android, so you don't have to worry about updates and stuff. And I like the rear-facing camera, hopefully they can improve the bouquet if we compare it with the China price for example, to give you a reference, the Nokia 5.1 in China was selling for about 10,000 and the launched it for 11,000 in India, a similar situation for the Nokia 6.1 plus, I think so in China it was for 15,000 rupees if we convert India they launched it about sixteen thousand five hundred or something, and this Nokia 8.1 which is actually known in China as Nokia x7 is for about 18,000 but in India they launched it at 27,000.

However, I feel that the charging a huge premium, if only I would say they would have actually priced at at about twenty-one or twenty-two thousand, the pricing would have been justified, but at twenty-seven thousand because it does not have any IP rating, nor serious speakers, nor that higher RAM or storage variant you just get forward to go back. Sixty-four GB and also Gorilla Glass protection is not there on this officially; it's not there they are using some new type of toughened glass I googled about it, it's known as NEX class but at this price point they should have given something like Gorilla Glass 5 or 6 which is not there.

They don't even supply a case in the box and actually the paint is shipping so you, I would say if you abide this get a case or something. So I feel it's actually a little bit overpriced in especially in India what Nokia charging Nokia is charging twenty-seven thousand for this one but nevertheless, I would say the plus point about this device is stock Android experience, it's very fast and fluid even though just have four gigabytes of RAM, and the handset actually looks good. I hope they improve the front-facing camera performance with software update because as of now it looks very artificial on human subjects.

If you are buying this definitely a buy a case because I'm worried about the shipping of the paint that is actually happening just about eleven days of us so anyways, what do you think about this Nokia 8.1? Do you think it's overpriced or not? What do you think about this device? Let me know in the comment section below. So guys, that's it for now, for this review and if you guys are still not subscribed to my YouTube channel hit that subscribe button, this is Ranjit and I hope you liked this video, don't forget to like and share it with your friends and family, and we'll catch you in the next one.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi there this is Ranjit an in this video we'll be doing the full review for this Nokia 8.2 one and I have been actually using this smartphone with my primary cell for the last 11 days so I'll be sharing my experience and I'll divide this review between the pros and cons what I liked about this device and what are the things that I did not really like with this device and again if you want to know more about this device also check out my unboxing video where I show you what else comes in the box but before that here are the quick specs for the Nokia 8.1 as you can see it is part by the new Snapdragon 17 and so see it has a 6.1 8 inch screen and it has 4 gigabytes of RAM and 64gb of internal storage and other specs are on the screen for your reference so let's now quickly jump between the pros and cons first let's talk about the pros what I liked about this device and later part of the video I talked about some of the things that I actually did not like and by the way guys this smartphone is sold in India via Amazon for 27 thousand and I purchased this unit from Amazon it's not a review that's a retail unit I'll have the link for Amazon in the description area so the first thing that I like is the 6.1 8 inch screen it's not as big as most of the other phones so it's slightly in the compact size these days most of the phones are having what do you say 6.3 and screen or something like that so they are slightly bigger so as you can see this one is slightly on the smaller size so if you don't like very big phones then it's okay size and my Frank opinion and moving to the processor it's having the new Snapdragon 710 SOC and it's a pretty fast processor I would say and as it's a Android 1 device again you don't have any lab with this phone everything actually works very well and the Snapdragon 17 SOC handles everything fine so in terms of fluidity I did not have any problem with this device it's very fluid no lag that I have for no tests so it's a very fast and fluid device and also now moving to the Android version it has the Android PI out of the box and as it's Android 1 device you don't have to worry too much about the update situation on this one now moving to RAM management I was initially a lot worried with this device because this comes just four gigabytes of RAM there is no variant of six gigabytes or anything like that when stored it is also 64 gigabytes this only one reading that is being sold in India so I was a little bit skeptical but I'm happy to say that the RAM management has been done very well on this device and even though just has four gigabytes of RAM it handles apps very well and even some apps that have to be in memory like trueCaller etc don't get booted out so the RAM management has been done well on this device though it just has four gigabytes of RAM now I'm going to another thing is the fingerprint scanner it's here at the back as I've totally you an unboxing video it takes a little bit of one or two days to get used to it because it's very flush with the back it's at last back but once you get used to it it is a fairly responsive fingerprint scanner as you can see and it works almost every time as you can see so so I don't have a problem with the fingerprint scanner now I'm moving to the charger that is supplied in the box I'm happy that Nokia has supplied of fast charger in a box it's 18 watt charger so the device charges fairly quickly it supports fast charging and now let's talk about the battery life on this one and I did test this for a couple of days in various scenarios it has a 3500 milliamp hour battery and I initially I tested it with just a single sim and with a single cell I got very good battery life as you can see from the charts over about one and a half days of standby and over eight hours of screen on time and I was very impressed with the battery life with a single cell but now I decided to use two sims because most of the users in India actually used their phones with two cells so I put two since one is my 8l7 and other is a geocell and here I was surprised that the battery life took a huge hit almost a 50% head as you can see from the screenshot of screen on time it's just barely around fires with the two Sims so this is very perplexing even a single cell phone was getting me great battery life but if you use two Sims generally in other phones we take a hit of about 15% to 20% with a second reason but here the battery hit was almost 50% with the second reason so if you are going to use it for 2 cents then the battery life is sort of average you have to charge it every day but if you just want to use it with a single cell then the battery life actually pretty good and it'll last for about one and a half days now moving to gaming I mean I played a couple of games with this asphalt mine played without any issues and I also played Bob G as most of you actually asked me to play Bob G and as you can see this is the gaming footage Sugar Puffs G and by default it goes to the high graphics setting and as you can see it plays Bob G also fine without any issues I didn't notice any frame drops or stuff so for gaming also the gaming performance of the device Esper maria with pop g like most of the Android phones with extended gaming about 20 minutes the back tends to get a little bit warm but the good thing is in regular usage the handset was not getting one the only scenario we're at was getting actually pretty vom was in the camera now let's talk about the camera and a few look at it from the back it has that dual camera setup with size optics and the rear facing camera has a setup of 12 plus 13 megapixel and for static shots where human subjects are not there as you can see from these quick samples again guys just pause it if you want I'll be really quick because I have a lot of samples as you can see the performance is really good but I also took sample shots with human subjects here I felt they can improve a little but the skin colors were a little bit off specially in normal I would say these are the normal shots that came out good but when I enable the bouquet more it was artificially it was darkening the skin a little bit and also the background and certain situations worth getting or known so hopefully with the software update they can improve the bouquet mode that is known as the live of bouquet mode and this again in the book came on I felt that the colors for human subjects were slightly off and I tested it in various scenarios indoor lighting outdoor lighting I had the same scenario but if you just talk about the rear facing camera if you don't use the bouquet mode I feel the camera is excellent on this one and also it has optical image stabilization hence even if you shoot video with this one the video come out actually really good and audio pickup is also very good in the video Department now let's move to the front facing camera on paper it looks amazing 20 megapixel but one thing that I've noticed is here a sample short have took with this it is poor sharpening the subjects human subjects when you take photographs with the front facing camera hence hence the picture simply does not look that much smoothing it actually looks very artificial I would say so again though the if the camera is sharp but with human subjects the front-facing camera performance it is doing that artificial sharpening hence the pictures actually don't look that good and now these are the things that I actually like with this phone now let's move to the Concha these are the things that I did not like and the first thing I would say again is that front facing camera I hope they fix it with the software update because I see a huge potential they are just doing that artificial sharpening for example if you open Photoshop and slide the sharpener sharpen tool how artificial it starts look that's what it's doing with the front-facing camera and I hope they improve it with the software update now I'm moving to another big con that I've noticed with this device is that again it's a Nokia device so you expect that the build quality everything really really hit should be great about this in terms of build quality it's good it doesn't give a creaking noise or anything and feels nice but what I've noticed is notice closely at the top the paint is getting chipped up it got chipped out or two places and also from the bottom so it's this is just with about eleven days of usage I don't know what will happen after about four or five months of uses so definitely they have compromised a little bit on the type of paint job that they have done and already it is exposing it so I don't like that and also considering the price point and India this is priced at 27,000 as of totally we only get one median that comes with four gigabytes of RAM and 64gb of storage I feel for this price they should have given at least 128 gigabytes of storage or maybe a 6 gigabyte RAM variant and moving to the speakers for the most part I would say it's sound a single speaker here it is fine but I felt at times when I was watching a lot of YouTube videos even at max volume I felt the volume could have been slightly better and one thing that I've noticed is that after 80 percent if you keep the volume and you have to actually keep it because the speaker is not too the volume actually gets very shrill let me actually play back one of my own videos so that you can get an idea as you can see this is a max volume but it's simply not that loud about max volume so I feel the speaker should have been a little bit louder and maybe they should have given stereo speakers considering the price point of this device now the next thing that I do not like about this device is that notch the knots I feel as unnecessarily big and it doesn't do anything useful it doesn't even have a physical LED notification light so again if you like the knot you might like it but I feel the not just unnecessarily big on this one and even when you watch youtube videos and stuff the knotch actually comes in the middle even when you maximize and stuff and there is nothing that you can do about it as of now so the notch is unnecessarily big on this phone in fact I would say they should have gone with the Nokia 6.1 that had a more elegant notch now moving to the earpiece also the earpiece for the most part is fine and signal quality I forgot Seiler call quality was fine both on Airtel and Gio but if you talk about the here piece again here I had a problem in situation like this where there's no noise or anything the volume level is fine but in noisy situations even at maximum volume I felt that the European could have been better so and many instances where I was outdoor on the streets even at max volume I had slight difficulty because the gear piece was not that loud so what do I feel about this smart phone this is priced at 27,000 rupees in India I like the fact that it is coming with stock Android so you don't have to worry about updates and stuff and I like the rear facing camera hopefully they can improve the bouquet if we compare it with the China price for example to give you a reference the Nokia 5.1 in China was selling for about 10,000 and the launched it for 11,000 in India a similar situation for the Nokia 6.1 plus I think so in China it was for 15,000 rupees if we convert India they launched it about sixteen thousand five hundred or something and this nokia 8.1 which is actually known in China as Nokia x7 is for about 18,000 but in India they launched it at 27,000 so I feel the charging a huge premium if only I would say they would have actually priced at at about twenty-one or twenty-two thousand the pricing would have been justified but at twenty-seven thousand because it does not have any IP rating not serious speakers nor that higher RAM or storage variant you just get forward to go back so 64 GB and also Gorilla Glass protection is not there on this officially it's not there they are using some new type of toughened glass I googled about it it's known as NEX class but at this price point they should have given something like Gorilla Glass 5 or 6 which is not there and they don't even supply a case in the box and actually the paint is shipping so you I would say if you abide this get a case or something so I feel it's actually a little bit overpriced in especially in India what Nokia charging Nokia is charging twenty seven thousand for this one but nevertheless I would say the plus point about this device is stock Android experience it's very fast and fluid even though just have four gigabytes of RAM and the handset actually looks good I hope they improve the front-facing camera performance with what do you say software update because as of now it looks very artificial on human subjects and if you are buying this definitely a buy a case because I'm worried about the shipping of the paint that is actually happening just about eleven days of us so anyways what do you think about this Nokia 8.1 do you think it's overpriced or not what do you think about this device - let me know in the comment section below so guys that's it for now for this review and if you guys are still not subscribed to my YouTube channel hit that subscribe button this is Ranjit and I hope to see you in my next video take care guyshi there this is Ranjit an in this video we'll be doing the full review for this Nokia 8.2 one and I have been actually using this smartphone with my primary cell for the last 11 days so I'll be sharing my experience and I'll divide this review between the pros and cons what I liked about this device and what are the things that I did not really like with this device and again if you want to know more about this device also check out my unboxing video where I show you what else comes in the box but before that here are the quick specs for the Nokia 8.1 as you can see it is part by the new Snapdragon 17 and so see it has a 6.1 8 inch screen and it has 4 gigabytes of RAM and 64gb of internal storage and other specs are on the screen for your reference so let's now quickly jump between the pros and cons first let's talk about the pros what I liked about this device and later part of the video I talked about some of the things that I actually did not like and by the way guys this smartphone is sold in India via Amazon for 27 thousand and I purchased this unit from Amazon it's not a review that's a retail unit I'll have the link for Amazon in the description area so the first thing that I like is the 6.1 8 inch screen it's not as big as most of the other phones so it's slightly in the compact size these days most of the phones are having what do you say 6.3 and screen or something like that so they are slightly bigger so as you can see this one is slightly on the smaller size so if you don't like very big phones then it's okay size and my Frank opinion and moving to the processor it's having the new Snapdragon 710 SOC and it's a pretty fast processor I would say and as it's a Android 1 device again you don't have any lab with this phone everything actually works very well and the Snapdragon 17 SOC handles everything fine so in terms of fluidity I did not have any problem with this device it's very fluid no lag that I have for no tests so it's a very fast and fluid device and also now moving to the Android version it has the Android PI out of the box and as it's Android 1 device you don't have to worry too much about the update situation on this one now moving to RAM management I was initially a lot worried with this device because this comes just four gigabytes of RAM there is no variant of six gigabytes or anything like that when stored it is also 64 gigabytes this only one reading that is being sold in India so I was a little bit skeptical but I'm happy to say that the RAM management has been done very well on this device and even though just has four gigabytes of RAM it handles apps very well and even some apps that have to be in memory like trueCaller etc don't get booted out so the RAM management has been done well on this device though it just has four gigabytes of RAM now I'm going to another thing is the fingerprint scanner it's here at the back as I've totally you an unboxing video it takes a little bit of one or two days to get used to it because it's very flush with the back it's at last back but once you get used to it it is a fairly responsive fingerprint scanner as you can see and it works almost every time as you can see so so I don't have a problem with the fingerprint scanner now I'm moving to the charger that is supplied in the box I'm happy that Nokia has supplied of fast charger in a box it's 18 watt charger so the device charges fairly quickly it supports fast charging and now let's talk about the battery life on this one and I did test this for a couple of days in various scenarios it has a 3500 milliamp hour battery and I initially I tested it with just a single sim and with a single cell I got very good battery life as you can see from the charts over about one and a half days of standby and over eight hours of screen on time and I was very impressed with the battery life with a single cell but now I decided to use two sims because most of the users in India actually used their phones with two cells so I put two since one is my 8l7 and other is a geocell and here I was surprised that the battery life took a huge hit almost a 50% head as you can see from the screenshot of screen on time it's just barely around fires with the two Sims so this is very perplexing even a single cell phone was getting me great battery life but if you use two Sims generally in other phones we take a hit of about 15% to 20% with a second reason but here the battery hit was almost 50% with the second reason so if you are going to use it for 2 cents then the battery life is sort of average you have to charge it every day but if you just want to use it with a single cell then the battery life actually pretty good and it'll last for about one and a half days now moving to gaming I mean I played a couple of games with this asphalt mine played without any issues and I also played Bob G as most of you actually asked me to play Bob G and as you can see this is the gaming footage Sugar Puffs G and by default it goes to the high graphics setting and as you can see it plays Bob G also fine without any issues I didn't notice any frame drops or stuff so for gaming also the gaming performance of the device Esper maria with pop g like most of the Android phones with extended gaming about 20 minutes the back tends to get a little bit warm but the good thing is in regular usage the handset was not getting one the only scenario we're at was getting actually pretty vom was in the camera now let's talk about the camera and a few look at it from the back it has that dual camera setup with size optics and the rear facing camera has a setup of 12 plus 13 megapixel and for static shots where human subjects are not there as you can see from these quick samples again guys just pause it if you want I'll be really quick because I have a lot of samples as you can see the performance is really good but I also took sample shots with human subjects here I felt they can improve a little but the skin colors were a little bit off specially in normal I would say these are the normal shots that came out good but when I enable the bouquet more it was artificially it was darkening the skin a little bit and also the background and certain situations worth getting or known so hopefully with the software update they can improve the bouquet mode that is known as the live of bouquet mode and this again in the book came on I felt that the colors for human subjects were slightly off and I tested it in various scenarios indoor lighting outdoor lighting I had the same scenario but if you just talk about the rear facing camera if you don't use the bouquet mode I feel the camera is excellent on this one and also it has optical image stabilization hence even if you shoot video with this one the video come out actually really good and audio pickup is also very good in the video Department now let's move to the front facing camera on paper it looks amazing 20 megapixel but one thing that I've noticed is here a sample short have took with this it is poor sharpening the subjects human subjects when you take photographs with the front facing camera hence hence the picture simply does not look that much smoothing it actually looks very artificial I would say so again though the if the camera is sharp but with human subjects the front-facing camera performance it is doing that artificial sharpening hence the pictures actually don't look that good and now these are the things that I actually like with this phone now let's move to the Concha these are the things that I did not like and the first thing I would say again is that front facing camera I hope they fix it with the software update because I see a huge potential they are just doing that artificial sharpening for example if you open Photoshop and slide the sharpener sharpen tool how artificial it starts look that's what it's doing with the front-facing camera and I hope they improve it with the software update now I'm moving to another big con that I've noticed with this device is that again it's a Nokia device so you expect that the build quality everything really really hit should be great about this in terms of build quality it's good it doesn't give a creaking noise or anything and feels nice but what I've noticed is notice closely at the top the paint is getting chipped up it got chipped out or two places and also from the bottom so it's this is just with about eleven days of usage I don't know what will happen after about four or five months of uses so definitely they have compromised a little bit on the type of paint job that they have done and already it is exposing it so I don't like that and also considering the price point and India this is priced at 27,000 as of totally we only get one median that comes with four gigabytes of RAM and 64gb of storage I feel for this price they should have given at least 128 gigabytes of storage or maybe a 6 gigabyte RAM variant and moving to the speakers for the most part I would say it's sound a single speaker here it is fine but I felt at times when I was watching a lot of YouTube videos even at max volume I felt the volume could have been slightly better and one thing that I've noticed is that after 80 percent if you keep the volume and you have to actually keep it because the speaker is not too the volume actually gets very shrill let me actually play back one of my own videos so that you can get an idea as you can see this is a max volume but it's simply not that loud about max volume so I feel the speaker should have been a little bit louder and maybe they should have given stereo speakers considering the price point of this device now the next thing that I do not like about this device is that notch the knots I feel as unnecessarily big and it doesn't do anything useful it doesn't even have a physical LED notification light so again if you like the knot you might like it but I feel the not just unnecessarily big on this one and even when you watch youtube videos and stuff the knotch actually comes in the middle even when you maximize and stuff and there is nothing that you can do about it as of now so the notch is unnecessarily big on this phone in fact I would say they should have gone with the Nokia 6.1 that had a more elegant notch now moving to the earpiece also the earpiece for the most part is fine and signal quality I forgot Seiler call quality was fine both on Airtel and Gio but if you talk about the here piece again here I had a problem in situation like this where there's no noise or anything the volume level is fine but in noisy situations even at maximum volume I felt that the European could have been better so and many instances where I was outdoor on the streets even at max volume I had slight difficulty because the gear piece was not that loud so what do I feel about this smart phone this is priced at 27,000 rupees in India I like the fact that it is coming with stock Android so you don't have to worry about updates and stuff and I like the rear facing camera hopefully they can improve the bouquet if we compare it with the China price for example to give you a reference the Nokia 5.1 in China was selling for about 10,000 and the launched it for 11,000 in India a similar situation for the Nokia 6.1 plus I think so in China it was for 15,000 rupees if we convert India they launched it about sixteen thousand five hundred or something and this nokia 8.1 which is actually known in China as Nokia x7 is for about 18,000 but in India they launched it at 27,000 so I feel the charging a huge premium if only I would say they would have actually priced at at about twenty-one or twenty-two thousand the pricing would have been justified but at twenty-seven thousand because it does not have any IP rating not serious speakers nor that higher RAM or storage variant you just get forward to go back so 64 GB and also Gorilla Glass protection is not there on this officially it's not there they are using some new type of toughened glass I googled about it it's known as NEX class but at this price point they should have given something like Gorilla Glass 5 or 6 which is not there and they don't even supply a case in the box and actually the paint is shipping so you I would say if you abide this get a case or something so I feel it's actually a little bit overpriced in especially in India what Nokia charging Nokia is charging twenty seven thousand for this one but nevertheless I would say the plus point about this device is stock Android experience it's very fast and fluid even though just have four gigabytes of RAM and the handset actually looks good I hope they improve the front-facing camera performance with what do you say software update because as of now it looks very artificial on human subjects and if you are buying this definitely a buy a case because I'm worried about the shipping of the paint that is actually happening just about eleven days of us so anyways what do you think about this Nokia 8.1 do you think it's overpriced or not what do you think about this device - let me know in the comment section below so guys that's it for now for this review and if you guys are still not subscribed to my YouTube channel hit that subscribe button this is Ranjit and I hope to see you in my next video take care guys\n"