

( Maybe get a case?) The Nokia 9 PureView, left, next to the Galaxy S10 Plus at peak brightness, with Adaptive Brightness off on both. It is slippery, though, so you should be careful with where you place it as it may easily slide off and hit the floor. The edges are slightly rounded, but they’re easy to grip, and the phone never once felt unwieldy.

More impressive is the build quality - a 6000-series aluminum unibody is paired with Gorilla Glass 5, which helps make the Nokia 9 more sturdy. Instead, there are bezels on the top and the bottom, but they’re thin and the phone still looks smart.

This may appeal to quite a few people that abhor these new screen styles. The screen is quite traditional by 2019’s standards: There’s no hole-punch camera floating somewhere on the screen, and you won’t even find a notch. There’s nothing fancy about the Nokia 9 from the front. Most people looking for a phone in this category should look at the Pixel 3, iPhone XR, Galaxy S10e, or OnePlus 6T instead, but I think the Nokia 9 PureView is worth buying specifically if you’re a photography enthusiast. That makes the phone feel a little more exclusive when it’s in your hands. Keep in mind, this is a limited-edition phone, so there’s only so many that will be available - it’s already back ordered until April. There are also reports of multiple bugs on several units, particularly where apps start to crash after the phone goes below 50 percent - we haven’t run into too many of these problems on our review unit, but we’ve reached out to HMD asking about a timeline for when people can expect the bugs to be fixed. It’s not the best choice for most people at its its $699 retail price. The phone, made by HMD Global, has an in-display fingerprint reader that’s finicky the battery life could be better and image processing is a bit slow (though there’s some benefit to this that I’ll explain later). Price, availability, and warranty informationīut the Nokia 9 has its drawbacks.The most fun you’ll have with a phone camera.The touchscreen-enabled mobile phones are definitely coming next year, although it's not 100 percent clear that the same will happen with this patent. It also looks into touchscreen technology and now it comes up with one of the most popular phone designs in the US and accounts it for itself. The Finnish handset producer seems to have big plans for the future. This makes it look like Nokia just managed to patent a Sidekick design for itself. The new rotating part looks cool, but feels like it brings little or no functionality at all. As a result, the device might have more stability, although there seems to have been no problem with the classic Sidekick devices.įrom what it looks, Nokia's forwarded a Sidekick patent for a device that washes its hands from what really inspired it and tries not to look like Danger's phones. This means that, in order to open the screen, the user will have to turn the handle 180 degrees. The new idea brings a turning part on the side as an opening device. There is also a notable difference between the two devices, other than the fact that one is real, while Nokia's is a mere concept. OK, it might not be all that easy, but Nokia's new patent does look very much like these media phones available in the US and designed by Danger.
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It's all about the large side sliding screen being combined with a full QWERTY keypad and voila! you've got yourself a Sidekick. The Finnish handset producer forwarded a patent for a device that looks incredibly similar to the handsets that became highly popular in the US. Nokia finally got the hint that Sidekicks are hot and looking great and thought that they would look even better with their logo on.
