The Nokia 2.3: A Budget Smartphone with Mixed Results

When it comes to budget smartphones, the Nokia 2.3 is certainly an interesting option. The device features a modern design that's sure to appeal to those looking for a stylish phone without breaking the bank. However, as we'll soon discover, there are some notable flaws that can't be ignored.

One of the most noticeable issues with the Nokia 2.3 is its dynamic range. When it comes to capturing portraits, the edge detection is not up to par. Upon closer inspection, the flaw becomes apparent - the phone struggles to capture the subject's edges accurately. This might not be immediately noticeable when looking at the photo overall, but upon closer examination, the flaws begin to reveal themselves.

The phone's camera capabilities are another area where it falls short. Nighttime images are particularly disappointing, with an excessive amount of grain and a noticeable lack of detail. The software-based portrait mode is also lacking in color reproduction, with a significantly reduced amount of tone and texture. Additionally, the regular selfies taken on the phone are grainy and lackluster.

On the other hand, when it comes to front camera photography, the Nokia 2.3 falters even more. The 5-megapixel F/2.4 sensor struggles to capture decent images, with a noticeable lack of color reproduction and an excessive amount of grain. Software-based portrait selfies are slightly better than regular ones in terms of color reproduction, but this is not a significant improvement.

Performance-wise, the Nokia 2.3 is powered by the MediaTek Helio A22 chipset, which is also found on the older Nokia 2.2. This may not be the most impressive selection of chipset, especially when compared to newer smartphones. The A22 has a quad-core CPU with Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 2.0 GHz and the PowerVEGE 8320 GPU.

In terms of memory, the phone comes with 2GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage. While this may not be a significant amount of memory for some users, it's sufficient for light multitasking and everyday use. However, when taking pictures or videos, the camera app takes a second or two to launch, which can be frustrating.

The image processing on the Nokia 2.3 is also painfully slow. When viewing clicked pictures, the phone struggles to load them quickly enough. The software-based unlock feature is similarly sluggish, requiring multiple swipes and taps to unlock the device. When it comes to gaming, the phone can handle a few big titles in low settings, but may suffer from impending lags and slowdowns.

On the plus side, the Nokia 2.3 runs on stock Android, which means no bloatware and regular security updates. The phone is part of the Android One program, promising up to two system upgrades and three years of monthly security updates. However, during our testing period, we did not receive the Android 10 update.

The battery life on the Nokia 2.3 is arguably its most impressive feature. With a 4000mAh battery, the phone can easily last for two days with moderate use. We got a total of 7 hours of screen-on time on a single charge, which is incredibly impressive for a budget smartphone. However, charging the phone itself is a different story. The device charges via Micro-USB port and does not support any fast charging options.

In conclusion, the Nokia 2.3 is an admirable budget smartphone that offers a modern design and impressive battery life. The stock Android experience ensures smooth performance, but some areas such as camera capabilities and image processing leave much to be desired. If you're looking for a decent Android experience on a budget, the Nokia 2.3 is definitely worth considering.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwe all know who sits atop the porcelain throne for the king of inexpensive devices xiaomi and now it looks like and I hope that Nokia is having a shot at the crown with its new Nokia 2.3 featuring a bold and hip design with some unique niceties of its own this budget phone is one tough cookie so let's find out more about this phone in this review starting with the design the Nokia 2.3 boy it's chunky it had been a while since I used one phone this boxy and I got to admit it's almost as if the phone does not need to be the battery isn't all that big so why so many times I found myself struggling to get a hold of the phone with ease and had to use both my hands even where you'd normally not need to and the tall big screen isn't helping either but I'll get to that later on the Nokia 2.3 is a budget phone so it won't surprise you when I say it's made of plastic but the back is interesting with a vertical width running throughout the device while the frame is metallic getting into buttons you'll find a dedicated Google Assistant button and some of you may be thinking what's the point of having a button when you can trigger it through your voice yes I understand that and I too did not quite make use of it however you can remap it to trigger some other actions using a third-party app the native customization support would have been even better does up customize the button to open notifications on a single tab take a screenshot on a double tab and long press to kill the foreground app on the front the Nokia two points fee comes with it all 6.2 inches IPS LCD panel and as expected it has HT plus resolution 1520 pixels vertically and 720 horizontally with an aspect ratio of 19 s to 9 and 271 PPI for the phone not that bulky to begin with the Nokia 2 point II would have been very easy to get to with one hand only but since that's not what's happened here it is thus a two hand smart phone however the display cut out is impressive for a budget phone it features a tidy water drop not up to afford the front-facing camera and come with two rounded corners interestingly while the expensive Nokia 7.2 also featured rounded corners it suffered from visible discoloration around the top edges which is in the case with the Nokia 2.3 so kudos to the company for that with the modern design of the display the phone achieves an eighty point seven percent screen to body ratio because there's a significant vessel on the bottom with the Nokia branding alongside some subtle side and table bezels as well all things considered I have two small and one major complaint regarding the Nokia two points piece display first having used it without any protector tempered glass it felt a bit unusually slippery and second the phone is frequently prone to accidental touches with no option to prevent that moreover it does not get right enough to be easily visible in valid environments though that's not a problem indoors the Nokia 2.3 comes with a dual camera setup so let's talk about that as well there's a 13 megapixel primary sensor with F 2.2 aperture and a 2 megapixel depth sensor for bouquet effects to sum up the camera performance on the Nokia 2.3 well it's a hit or miss sometimes it works great and sometimes it simply does it the normal images come out decent in a well-lit environment and the media preservation is quite good too though colour reproduction could have been better but when it fails and it often does the phone's photos come out bland grainy and with messed-up dynamic range talking about portraits the edge detection is not that great - but you might not notice that right away when looking at the photo upon closer inspection however the flaw begins to reveal themselves it misses out greatly on the subjects edges one thing I noticed about the portrait images on the nokia 2.3 is that they are brighter than the regular images nighttime images aren't any great either the amount of grain is just way too much and you'll notice some smoothening going on - overall low-light photography on the nokia 2.3 is forgettable coming to the front camera there is a 5 megapixel F 2.4 sensor placed inside the water drop not regular selfies are lacking in color reproduction and there is a significantly low amount of tea as well additionally images a grainy and polish to likewise the software-based portrait selfies are a little better than the regular selfies in terms of color reproduction though it's not perfect either moreover selfie portraits on the nokia 2.3 are also riddled with grains and a lack of detail moving on to the performance the nokia 2.3 is powered by MediaTek Helio a 22 chipset which can also be found on the older Nokia 2.2 so not a very good selection of chipset there the Helio a 22 has a quad-core CPU with cortex a53 cores clocked at 2.0 gigahertz and the power we are GE 8320 GPU the phone comes with a finger memory configuration with 2gb of RAM and 32gb of internal storage though it does not lag as much and light multitasking is fine as well no care two points we demonstrated how accustomed I've gotten to a faster device from launching apps to making selections the phone just takes its time which I would have been infuriated about if it was a mid-range smartphone this is more evident when taking pictures or videos first of all the camera app takes a second or two to launch but it's when viewing the clicked pictures where the lag is realized the image processing on the Nokia 2.3 is just too slow here the software base base unlock is similarly hopeless I could wake the phone swipe to open the pattern layout enter the pattern to enter and the unlocked homescreen and all that takes less time than face unlock when it comes to gaming it can handle a few big titles in the lowest of settings albeit with impending lags and starters I played Call of Duty for a while and the phone would frequently slow down when the game tried to load some resources I also applied injustice to which ran smoothly but suffered from mild lags here and there as well in terms of light games I put the phone to test with Altos Odyssey which ran smoothly but that too fell victim to minor lags now and then on to the software end it runs on pure Android as the phone is a part of the Android one program as expected there is no bloatware and Nokia promises up to 2 of system upgrades and three years of monthly security updates though I did not receive the Android ten update during my use of the phone I did receive January security patch now the battery life on the Nokia 2.3 absolutely blew me away the 4000 mAh battery on the phone really makes the code a two-day device as the company case I continuously played injustice 2 for 4 hours well it was a slow day don't judge me and the phone still had around 50% battery left all around I got a total of 7 hours of screen on time on a single charge and that is really impressive but charging the phone is a pain it charges via micro USB port and does not support any fast charging either using a 10 watt charger it took me about three hours and 18 minutes to take the note here 2.3 from 0 to 100% which is just a little short that martin scorsese's the irish man so yeah while the battery life on the new care 2.3 is ridiculously impressive the charging on the other hand is ridiculously abysmal so to sum it all up the nokia 2.3 is an admirable budget smartphone it features a modern design and an incredibly impressive battery life and the stock a droid here in further supplements to a smooth experience while guaranteeing updates as well it's camera is a hit or miss on this with proper lighting and ambience the images turn out fine though I cannot emphasize enough on the slowness of the image processor all in all the Nokia 2.3 is a great starter phone for someone who's just looking for a decent Android experience on a budget so that is all for the review of the budget Nokia 2.3 - let us know what you think about this phone in the comment section below till then empresa madakari and i'll see you in the next onewe all know who sits atop the porcelain throne for the king of inexpensive devices xiaomi and now it looks like and I hope that Nokia is having a shot at the crown with its new Nokia 2.3 featuring a bold and hip design with some unique niceties of its own this budget phone is one tough cookie so let's find out more about this phone in this review starting with the design the Nokia 2.3 boy it's chunky it had been a while since I used one phone this boxy and I got to admit it's almost as if the phone does not need to be the battery isn't all that big so why so many times I found myself struggling to get a hold of the phone with ease and had to use both my hands even where you'd normally not need to and the tall big screen isn't helping either but I'll get to that later on the Nokia 2.3 is a budget phone so it won't surprise you when I say it's made of plastic but the back is interesting with a vertical width running throughout the device while the frame is metallic getting into buttons you'll find a dedicated Google Assistant button and some of you may be thinking what's the point of having a button when you can trigger it through your voice yes I understand that and I too did not quite make use of it however you can remap it to trigger some other actions using a third-party app the native customization support would have been even better does up customize the button to open notifications on a single tab take a screenshot on a double tab and long press to kill the foreground app on the front the Nokia two points fee comes with it all 6.2 inches IPS LCD panel and as expected it has HT plus resolution 1520 pixels vertically and 720 horizontally with an aspect ratio of 19 s to 9 and 271 PPI for the phone not that bulky to begin with the Nokia 2 point II would have been very easy to get to with one hand only but since that's not what's happened here it is thus a two hand smart phone however the display cut out is impressive for a budget phone it features a tidy water drop not up to afford the front-facing camera and come with two rounded corners interestingly while the expensive Nokia 7.2 also featured rounded corners it suffered from visible discoloration around the top edges which is in the case with the Nokia 2.3 so kudos to the company for that with the modern design of the display the phone achieves an eighty point seven percent screen to body ratio because there's a significant vessel on the bottom with the Nokia branding alongside some subtle side and table bezels as well all things considered I have two small and one major complaint regarding the Nokia two points piece display first having used it without any protector tempered glass it felt a bit unusually slippery and second the phone is frequently prone to accidental touches with no option to prevent that moreover it does not get right enough to be easily visible in valid environments though that's not a problem indoors the Nokia 2.3 comes with a dual camera setup so let's talk about that as well there's a 13 megapixel primary sensor with F 2.2 aperture and a 2 megapixel depth sensor for bouquet effects to sum up the camera performance on the Nokia 2.3 well it's a hit or miss sometimes it works great and sometimes it simply does it the normal images come out decent in a well-lit environment and the media preservation is quite good too though colour reproduction could have been better but when it fails and it often does the phone's photos come out bland grainy and with messed-up dynamic range talking about portraits the edge detection is not that great - but you might not notice that right away when looking at the photo upon closer inspection however the flaw begins to reveal themselves it misses out greatly on the subjects edges one thing I noticed about the portrait images on the nokia 2.3 is that they are brighter than the regular images nighttime images aren't any great either the amount of grain is just way too much and you'll notice some smoothening going on - overall low-light photography on the nokia 2.3 is forgettable coming to the front camera there is a 5 megapixel F 2.4 sensor placed inside the water drop not regular selfies are lacking in color reproduction and there is a significantly low amount of tea as well additionally images a grainy and polish to likewise the software-based portrait selfies are a little better than the regular selfies in terms of color reproduction though it's not perfect either moreover selfie portraits on the nokia 2.3 are also riddled with grains and a lack of detail moving on to the performance the nokia 2.3 is powered by MediaTek Helio a 22 chipset which can also be found on the older Nokia 2.2 so not a very good selection of chipset there the Helio a 22 has a quad-core CPU with cortex a53 cores clocked at 2.0 gigahertz and the power we are GE 8320 GPU the phone comes with a finger memory configuration with 2gb of RAM and 32gb of internal storage though it does not lag as much and light multitasking is fine as well no care two points we demonstrated how accustomed I've gotten to a faster device from launching apps to making selections the phone just takes its time which I would have been infuriated about if it was a mid-range smartphone this is more evident when taking pictures or videos first of all the camera app takes a second or two to launch but it's when viewing the clicked pictures where the lag is realized the image processing on the Nokia 2.3 is just too slow here the software base base unlock is similarly hopeless I could wake the phone swipe to open the pattern layout enter the pattern to enter and the unlocked homescreen and all that takes less time than face unlock when it comes to gaming it can handle a few big titles in the lowest of settings albeit with impending lags and starters I played Call of Duty for a while and the phone would frequently slow down when the game tried to load some resources I also applied injustice to which ran smoothly but suffered from mild lags here and there as well in terms of light games I put the phone to test with Altos Odyssey which ran smoothly but that too fell victim to minor lags now and then on to the software end it runs on pure Android as the phone is a part of the Android one program as expected there is no bloatware and Nokia promises up to 2 of system upgrades and three years of monthly security updates though I did not receive the Android ten update during my use of the phone I did receive January security patch now the battery life on the Nokia 2.3 absolutely blew me away the 4000 mAh battery on the phone really makes the code a two-day device as the company case I continuously played injustice 2 for 4 hours well it was a slow day don't judge me and the phone still had around 50% battery left all around I got a total of 7 hours of screen on time on a single charge and that is really impressive but charging the phone is a pain it charges via micro USB port and does not support any fast charging either using a 10 watt charger it took me about three hours and 18 minutes to take the note here 2.3 from 0 to 100% which is just a little short that martin scorsese's the irish man so yeah while the battery life on the new care 2.3 is ridiculously impressive the charging on the other hand is ridiculously abysmal so to sum it all up the nokia 2.3 is an admirable budget smartphone it features a modern design and an incredibly impressive battery life and the stock a droid here in further supplements to a smooth experience while guaranteeing updates as well it's camera is a hit or miss on this with proper lighting and ambience the images turn out fine though I cannot emphasize enough on the slowness of the image processor all in all the Nokia 2.3 is a great starter phone for someone who's just looking for a decent Android experience on a budget so that is all for the review of the budget Nokia 2.3 - let us know what you think about this phone in the comment section below till then empresa madakari and i'll see you in the next one\n"