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  • 24 Sep 2020

No Compass, No GPS, No Gyroscope, No Magnetometer - just like all Nokia phones in 2020. End of interest.

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    • Carol
    • mVu
    • 24 Sep 2020

    Ilham163, 24 Sep 20205.3 is my target but I'm on a limited budget right now... moreThen go for 5.1 plus if that huge notch does not bother you, better build quality, yeah the notification led is missing and has a big notch, but the rest are better. Try to buy 6GB RAM. version if you find it and have enough in your pocket.

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      • 24 Sep 2020

      Carol, 24 Sep 2020And again, ignoring everything i say, but well, you managed... moreI'm not ignoring what you say, it's just that what you say doesn't make any sense at all.

      If you were really smart enough to expand your mindset you wouldn't keep on denying the fact that other phones use better components than Nokia in the same price range and keep saying nonsense.

      You deny that OLED screen is better than LCD when there are many studies and comparisons by experts and using industry standard tools which prove that OLED still has much better color, contrast and response time.

      For example Notebookcheck a website based in Germany reviewed Nokia 5.3 using a spectrophotometer and other industrial standard tools and it shows that the screen on Nokia 5.3 is not as good as OLED or even Chinese phone with LCD like Redmi Note 9S.

      As i said before i have no problem if you only like Nokia but you keep talking nonsense and spreading wrong information.

      If you think that the LCD screen on Nokia is as good as the OLED screen please provide us with reliable source of information that can be used as a reference instead of just keep saying nonsense without proof.

        Carol, 24 Sep 2020If size don't bother zou, go for 5.3 it is a great val... more5.3 is my target but I'm on a limited budget right now that below 150 euro. but my budget is fit to buy 4.2 or 5.1 plus. which is why I ask you which one is better. btw in my country no discount for 5.3 yet lol

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          • 3IJ
          • 24 Sep 2020

          Ilham163, 24 Sep 2020thank you for your advice, but still, I'm refusing to ... morenokia phones also have their flaws, i bought the nokia 8 shortly after it was released, so ive been using it for about 3 years now. battery life is pretty much trash now, i charge the phone multiple times a day, so yeh its a good idea to not buy a phone that has average battery life out of the box, and also, fast chargers will only help degrade the battery faster. the other main issue with nokia is software, you'd think the stock android implementation is like the pixel experience, clean and perfect, but its actually not, nokia barely put any effort into the software, therefore there are many features and optimizations missing, its basically a cheap way of implementing android on a phone. I personally have a problem with the display of my phone, it has a temporary screen burn-in effect, i think it would be considered similar to an image persistence effect, its not permanent so thats great ig. apps refresh way too often for me, the phone is dying on me, wifi has also been acting strange recently, the camera sometimes crashes and doesnt save the image. i also have my power button set to open the camera when its pressed twice, but its been opening it almost everytime i try to press the power button once. pretty annoying. the phone does feel slower, but i am a pretty heavy user, i expect it to perform its tasks in an instance. oh the phone also sometimes lags when i connect it to a charger. Still, flagship performance for just $450 at the time wasnt a bad deal, so ig it wasnt all that bad, but i wont be going for a nokia phone again, i mean, atleast chinese brands actually improve the experience on their phones. oh also, u shouldnt really care much about build quality if ur just going to keep the phone in a cover, so to me it doesnt matter much if the phone has good or average build quality.

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            • Kxc
            • 24 Sep 2020

            Mo, 24 Sep 2020http://m.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=9979&idPhon... moreNo card slot on Redmi or 512gb option is deal-breaker for me

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              • mgK
              • 24 Sep 2020

              Ilham163, 24 Sep 2020it might be impossible for me to buy this phone right now. ... moreP.s if you really have constrains in what money means and chinese brands offer something you might actually find good. You can keep yourself half way safe with an private dns filter and an on device kinda netblocker. With a dns filer you can block phones access to ip addresses. That means it can't connect to what you do not want it to connect, not because there is no internet, but because there is no resolved IP Address to connect to, with it you can also block ads inside apps. With the netblocker or so called firewall you can block access to internet per app. Their are more DNS filters, but the one i use is quite ok, not the fastest, but free and with great options. Nextdns, the app that blocks apps to reach internet out is called netguard. All of this is a bit complicated and takes a learning time to understand if you never read about networking, but when you understand how to properly use them, you are already 10 steps in front of most of the people. Keep in mind this soulution will not help for the fact that china device might have no support, especially the low costs ones, and might go "kaput" in a matter of Mounts.

                RishiGuru, 24 Sep 2020I believe all the guys who buy Chinese phones are not stupi... morei'm not hating it. it just my opinion of taste. and sorry if I got it a little bit rough there

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                  • Carol
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                  • 24 Sep 2020

                  Ilham163, 24 Sep 2020it might be impossible for me to buy this phone right now. ... moreIf size don't bother zou, go for 5.3 it is a great value for money. Especially when you find it at discount for 150€

                    Ilham163, 23 Sep 2020id say it sucks ( not hating ) bc their build quality. espe... moreI believe all the guys who buy Chinese phones are not stupid. So I request all to remove this negative mindset that all Chinese branded phones are bad. You don't like them, don't use them.

                    Nokia's philosophy isn't bad either. I like this Nokia 8.3. Maybe not its current price but surely its Nordic design. HMD Global from its very onset had an ambition to set new standards in phone design, material quality and manufacturing innovation by building on the hallmarks of a true Nokia phone experience. Both are unique in their own ways and its good to have both flavors as a customer be it Chinese or European brands.

                    Coming back to HMD Global, on their first year of production (2017) made some beautiful phones be it Nokia 6, Nokia 5 and latter the flagship Nokia 8. They went in a different route where built quality, design, aesthetics had a higher precedence over raw specs and performance. For unheard build quality they went for what Nokia calls "material first led design". In these phones there are no stamped metal parts for decoration (actively used by Chinese manufactures). The inherent strength of these Nokia's comes from carving out the phone for a single block of aluminum to start with. It takes an hour to mill out the whole body from the aluminum block. Finally a die cast metal mid-frame is screwed internally to the metal body which reinforces the core of the device. This used to give there phones unheard structural integrity & durability. This is an approach to engineering that is build to last. The phone body used to get polished for no less than 5 times for roughly 2 hours to provide this incredible satin like look and in-hand feel. A Scandinavian design focusing on quality, design & craftsmanship with an incredible attention to detail. Even though their 2017 batch had the quality, they lacked in performance when directly compared to Chinese counterparts as Nokia misjudged the current market trend and the phones did not sell well. In 2018, they bounced back and rectified this performance issue for their mid to higher end models and three models stood out. Nokia 8 Sirocco, Nokia 7 Plus & Nokia 6.1. These three phones had best of both worlds, built quality & performance. This trio is generally considered the best Nokia phones ever made under HMD banner. As openly admitted by Juho Sarvikas (CFO of HMD), Nokia 7 Plus is his favorite phone and as many believes the the best phone HMD ever made. Considering performance, design, built quality & price Nokia 7 Plus is the undisputed king in the entire HMD portfolio for its time frame.

                    However again due the very aggressive advertising budgets from Chinese & Korean manufactures, these phones did not sell well which led to huge price cuts. During this time I bought a Nokia 7 Plus (4/64GB, $360) for $165 and a Nokia 6.1 (4/64GB, $260) for $100. Both brand new from an online store. These huge price cuts forced by HMD over Foxxcon who were actually producing their phones in order to sell, resulted in huge losses in Foxxcon side, and they pulled out. This caused in huge instability at HMD as Foxxcon had the tools & the manufacturing expertise to create these hallmark phones. Hence, HMD's dream of continuing the hallmark "material first led design" unfortunately ended and were mostly confined between 2017 & 2018 models made by Foxxcon.

                    The current generation of Nokia phones (2019 onward) uses similar manufacturing techniques to any reputed Chinese brands. Cheap and cheerful with a Finnish design touch. This design is just what they have for now against Chinese brands. They now break as easily as any Chinese phones. The Nokia 8.3 as such is no different in terms of material, manufacturing technique to a similarly or even a lower priced Chinese branded phone. What currently sets the Nokia apart is the software. HMD does not have the money to design its own UI skin (old Nokia would have definitely done so to maintain its uniqueness). So the sales pitch is "pure" stock android (as much less expensive) with two Android software upgrades and and three years of security patches. My $150 "Chinese" Oppo F7 also provides the same software updates over the same tenure and comes with it own software overlay which uniquely distinguishes the phone to be an Oppo. Think what would have happened if all phones starts running stock Android. Its like there is just one color in the world: White. I hate this idea.

                    Having extensively used both my Nokia 7 Plus & 6.1 for over a year now, I have zero complaints. Instead both phones have an understated elegance, a beauty in simplicity and the no-nonsense design which arguably gives off a stylish vibe that's nowhere to be found on the Redmis, Pocos & Realmes. The same cannot be said for the current generation of Nokia's as they do not follow the "material first led design". However when its comes to the software, I have a love & hate relationship with stock Android on Nokia phones. The stock Android is good, but it does not have the level of customization and extra features which comes handy with other customized UIs. Like double tap to wake or sleep. Gesture navigation is very basic and options for customization is very limited.

                    The Chinese brand flagships have currently reached a level which is right there with Samsungs & LGs. You may laugh at a $100 all plastic Realme phone, but get hold of their $400 Realme X50 Pro and you are now entering a serious performance monster with built quality as good as a Samsung twice the price. So I humbly request all to stop this open hate and mud slinging currently going on between Chinese vs Nokia phones.

                      Carol, 24 Sep 2020And again, ignoring everything i say, but well, you managed... moresince u are a Nokia fan (if it's true or not), can you help me chose between which one is better. I got a limited budget and my choice is either 4.2 or 5.1 plus. help me Carol

                        gokuandroid, 24 Sep 2020kick the current ceo out of their company or they will get ... morethey already did replace a new CEO. it's from finland

                          mar, 24 Sep 2020unless u go for a Chinese phone, u wont be able to get much... morethank you for your advice, but still, I'm refusing to buy Chinese phone brands because it already fooled me twice. first Xiaomi got F up and then switch to Vivo and it's still F up. currently, right now I'm using Moto, a brand supported by Chinese, and the phone it's slowly dying. which is now I'm planning to change the phone to Nokia. my country doesn't have many brands only Chinese and Nokia except top brands like Samsung or Apple.

                            kick the current ceo out of their company or they will get lost from the market like before.

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                              • 24 Sep 2020

                              Ilham163, 24 Sep 2020it might be impossible for me to buy this phone right now. ... moreunless u go for a Chinese phone, u wont be able to get much out of a new phone at such a low budget. u can try to seek the used markets, also u might wanna check the prices of older android phones, cz android phones tend to drop in price quite quickly. And yes, there have been chinese phone companies that straight up stole the user's data, they werent big brand phones though. There are some chinese brands that are quite reputable, such as the big chinese brands like Oneplus, Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, Realme. A couple of months ago i got for my mum the Xiaomi redmi note 9 pro, the battery life on that thing and price to performance is absolutely amazing, got her the 128gb variant for $200, i could've got her a cheaper phone but i wanted to make sure that the phone had ufs storage ( which can really affect the user experience), and this one does, if i recall correctly, it has ufs 2.1 storage, at the time i couldnt find a similarly priced phone with ufs storage, the others had emmc storage and also had lower end chipsets.

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                                • 8uk
                                • 24 Sep 2020

                                http://m.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=9979&idPhone2=10142

                                Redmi K30 5g has 120hz display with lower price and same specs.

                                  Vittorio, 24 Sep 2020Looking for a new phone. I just want ask them if this "... moresee techspurt review. the camera is really darn good IMO, but it's low on nights except if you get a good angle of light

                                    it might be impossible for me to buy this phone right now. but can someone help on which low end phone should I buy from nokia. i got 4.2 and 5.1 plus. idk which one is better but currently, in my country, the nokia selling is going well smoothly. reason is my country is full of Chinese phones brand. and as I said before in the comment that I don't really trust Chinese phones.

                                      Looking for a new phone. I just want ask them if this "Polar night" phone is able to make aurora lights pictures?) if YES I am buying it!
                                      I am working in Arctic and very soon Polar night will start with amaizing Aurora lights. Non of the phones are able to give a good quality pictures (except one Chinese brand).

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                                        • Carol
                                        • mVu
                                        • 24 Sep 2020

                                        GENZA, 24 Sep 2020It's really sad to see what's going on with Nokia... moreAnd again, ignoring everything i say, but well, you managed to call me angry mindless fan. It is actually sad to see impertinents commenting daily in gsmarena comments sections, that is what sad is. I already said 3 times, i have internet, i do quite a lot of research before buying something. And i buy what i want, not what others buy or think it is good, 90% of them have 0 knowlege about technology. I also have principles, a thing 80% of this world does not, so why would i, or anyone else, need your "opinion" or "recomandations" without once using any of Nokia devices? You gotta think really high of yourself to believe that you matter, come down of your horse, is not even their. As for the rest of your gibberish, it is called marketing and getting used too. People got used with exactly those 3 brands. In germany is the same, as this 3 brands dominated in Europe quite a while now, after Microsoft killed Nokia, but thats another sorry. Now you go read statistics of what others use, have fun, i don't remember anyone here stoping you.

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