Nokia 9 PureView review

05 April 2019
The Once and Future King of mobile photography - the PureView camera - is back! The Nokia's champion has lived through the twilights of Symbian and Windows Phone, to be once again reborn in the peak of Android era. HMD's Nokia 9 is the bearer of the next-gen PureView snapper, and it's not one, but whole six of them!

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  • Gerolamo
  • mFd
  • 09 Sep 2023

I took this smartphone with the battery exhausted, replaced it and participated in a photo contest in my small country of residence. Well, I won.

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    • PietK
    • 0@f
    • 25 Mar 2023

    I sadly had to give up my Lumia 1020 as my regular phone years ago, as WhatsApp wasn't supported anymore. Such a shame. The 9 cannot compete with the 1020. Yet I am not disappointed in the photo quality at all. Even managed to get some good results in low light. The real nuisance is: battery life, and the camera now after two years simply doesn't function anymore. The phone also needs permanent reload and shuts off regularly, I think the battery is slightly overheating. I can get a cheap new 9 though where I live. I am hooked to the monochrome function, for an old school photographer like myself it's heaven on earth.

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      • Flying Dutchman
      • niY
      • 20 Jul 2022

      MD, 14 Dec 2021Exactly the same issues.. however in my case it has worked ... moreNokia, never again. No promised system-update, hanging camera, overheating. Shameful support. HDM offers a 50% discount when buying another Nokia, because of the promissed update that never comes (and probably because of all the other issues). But only on the phones they selected. LOL. I'll leave the discount and buy another brand. Things can only get better.

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        • Anonymous
        • H00
        • 17 Apr 2022

        Carol, 28 Dec 2021Never had such problems with my nokia 9 and it's pushi... more"There is the lack of compasission and education your fellow citizens undergo that is to blame. To change that, you first need to change yourself..." tf are you smoking??? You're trying to blame him? You don't know who he is and they're talking about customer support, don't bring your 'deep' sh1t in here

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          • Anonymous
          • M9x
          • 24 Feb 2022

          MD, 14 Dec 2021Nokia Pureview is like an impotent handsome hunk..who is no... moreYour Chinese copy isn't as good as the real deal. Nokia 9 is extremely fast. The chipset is still very good. Battery life is so-so, but the rest is the best. It doesn't hang. It doesn't turn off by itself.

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            • Carol
            • mek
            • 28 Dec 2021

            MD, 14 Dec 2021Nokia Pureview is like an impotent handsome hunk..who is no... moreUps another liar spoted... this device is everything's BUT slow.

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              • Carol
              • mek
              • 28 Dec 2021

              Anonymous, 23 Jan 2021The worst phone ever made. I bought this in Aug20 and it st... moreNever had such problems with my nokia 9 and it's pushing 3 years. As for customer care, well i doubt that there is hmd to blame. There is the lack of compasission and education your fellow citizens undergo that is to blame. To change that, you first need to change yourself...

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                • Carol
                • mek
                • 28 Dec 2021

                Steve, 31 Jan 2021I was so excited when Nokia came back into the market, how ... moreOh, so now is hmd to blame because you're a inept? People this days are not human enough to take the blame and shut it, what's next? You step on someone's hand and blame the shue manufacturer? 21 century personality.

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                  • MD
                  • s8i
                  • 14 Dec 2021

                  Anonymous, 23 Jan 2021The worst phone ever made. I bought this in Aug20 and it st... moreExactly the same issues.. however in my case it has worked fine for more than 4 months..:-)..

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                    • MD
                    • s8i
                    • 14 Dec 2021

                    Nokia Pureview is like an impotent handsome hunk..who is not able to perform when required... Except the looks of the phone, and kind of super loaded and advertised features, this phone really sucks..It hangs in between, shuts down on its own, and the worst part is that it is extremely slow.. maybe HMD - the manufacturer and marketer is a firm believer of a slow moving advantage..
                    @ Nokia .. Do not ruin your brand image by lending your name to such a pathetic product. HMD will not be able to bring your lost glory by rolling out such shitty phones in the market.

                      In old days. I used Nokia. Were solid reliable brand. I got Nokia 9 pureview.first 6 months .worked as it should. But in last 5 months has this weird noise when you use in camera mode. But that's worse I can use video mode on Nokia 9 because the noise can be heard in any video which means I can't use video mode with this phone. I be changing my phone soon and won't be Nokia as I have found out Nokia support is not there. Current Nokia is not there after 6 months. Pity but saying it straight

                        nokia only by name. this isnt the true nokia, who had trusty phones, these guys are imposters !!

                        the phones crash constantly, and are really slow, compared with other similar priced phones.

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                          • Steve
                          • gL@
                          • 31 Jan 2021

                          I was so excited when Nokia came back into the market, how wrong was I? The Nokia 9 Pureview is the worst phone i have ever owned. Recently it seems to have been downloading system updates and on several occasions in the last 3/4 months these updates have automatically updated the voice prompts. The latest causing me to jump, slip and fall, landing on my phone which is now smashed and broken!!!!! Angry, upset and disappointed with Nokia dont even go close to describing my emotions right now. Save you money folks and buy a Samsung as i am going to.

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                            • Its me the human
                            • 0C0
                            • 25 Jan 2021

                            Anonymous, 23 Jan 2021The worst phone ever made. I bought this in Aug20 and it st... moreHey you
                            Nokia has been solded in 2016 so that's why the phone are not working properly
                            I have Nokia c7 till now it's working good
                            When Nokia started launching mobiles it's was good mobiles till 2015 when Microsoft solded Nokia from that time he is not launching proper phones
                            So be quite if you want to buy buy or get lost

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                              • Anonymous
                              • CbA
                              • 23 Jan 2021

                              The worst phone ever made. I bought this in Aug20 and it stopped working in dec20. Initially it started getting hanged in middle of something. afterwards it just fail to start and keeps on rebooting continuously. Despite of having good quality of photos, camera won't get start after some days. you'll face all the problems with this phone including:
                              1. No live picture viewing
                              2. Overheating
                              3. Phone gets hanged
                              4. phone is too slippery
                              5. poor customer support.

                              The most shocking part is customer care asked me 32k to repair this phone which is just after 4 months of buying date.

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                                • LULU
                                • Eie
                                • 13 Dec 2020

                                am happy that the nokia is back on the track of producing the products

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                                  • Carol
                                  • nUF
                                  • 14 Oct 2020

                                  Chen, 06 Jan 2020Never buy this bs phone, i bought new and within one week i... moreI am pretty sure the problem lay's in your knowlege.

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                                    • Intrance
                                    • p7j
                                    • 09 Aug 2020

                                    I love the feel of the Nokia 9 in general and have been a long time Pureview user on Lumia phones and even the Nokia 808.

                                    The Nokia 9 does not deserve the name. The camera is slow because it is overly complex. The should have added a dedicated image processing chip instead of relying on the Snapdragon. Low light output is significantly worse than even my old Galaxy S7 (you'd think the Nokia is broken if you see the difference in person). That is worse than a 3 year older

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                                      • Anonymous
                                      • 0G4
                                      • 02 Aug 2020

                                      "The images we exported this way had better detail, contrast, and colors than the regular JPEGs, but turned out to be much softer than they should be in reality. This makes the statements that anyone from Adobe has worked on optimizing the Lightroom output for the Nokia 9 sound a bit dubious."

                                      Lightroom Mobile's auto option does not alter sharpness. If you get good colors and contrast with auto button, then it works perfectly because it only affects vibrance and exposure parameters.

                                        Mathew, 22 May 2020I bought this phone 2 months back and Finger print is not w... moreUse an index finger instead of a thumb. Works so much better.