For all the anticipation around the relaunch, Nokia (HMD Global?) has been taking it slow and steady over the last year or so of their rebirth. There've been close to a dozen smartphone launches across categories and the company has been silently plugging away at bringing back some of their most iconic product lines. With photography and build quality being one of the key tenets, rumors were rife that the next big device will be a photography monster. Instead, what we've ended up with is a redo of the Nokia 8 in Sirocco edition garb. Nokia 8 Sirocco specifications 5.5-inch (2560×1440 pixels) pOLED display, sculpted Corning Gorilla Glass 5 protection, 700 nits brightness Octa-Core Snapdragon 835 Mobile Platform with Adreno 540 GPU 6GB DDR4X RAM, 128GB (UFS 2.1) storage Android 8.1 (Oreo) 12 MP primary rear camera with 2L7 wide-angle lens, 1.4um pixel size, f/1.7 aperture + 13 MP secondary camera with 3M3 Telephoto lens, 1.0um pixel size, f/2.6 aperture, dual-tone flash, 2x optical zoom 5MP front-facing camera with 1.4um pixel size Fingerprint sensor, Barometer Water and Dust Resistant (IP67 ) USB Type-C audio, 3 microphones Dimensions: 140.93 x 72.97 x 7.5 mm 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11ac (MIMO), Bluetooth 5.0, GPS/ GLONASS, USB Type-C ...
Tuesday 24 April 2018
Nokia 8 Sirocco Review : A Diamond in the Rough
For all the anticipation around the relaunch, Nokia (HMD Global?) has been taking it slow and steady over the last year or so of their rebirth. There've been close to a dozen smartphone launches across categories and the company has been silently plugging away at bringing back some of their most iconic product lines. With photography and build quality being one of the key tenets, rumors were rife that the next big device will be a photography monster. Instead, what we've ended up with is a redo of the Nokia 8 in Sirocco edition garb. Nokia 8 Sirocco specifications 5.5-inch (2560×1440 pixels) pOLED display, sculpted Corning Gorilla Glass 5 protection, 700 nits brightness Octa-Core Snapdragon 835 Mobile Platform with Adreno 540 GPU 6GB DDR4X RAM, 128GB (UFS 2.1) storage Android 8.1 (Oreo) 12 MP primary rear camera with 2L7 wide-angle lens, 1.4um pixel size, f/1.7 aperture + 13 MP secondary camera with 3M3 Telephoto lens, 1.0um pixel size, f/2.6 aperture, dual-tone flash, 2x optical zoom 5MP front-facing camera with 1.4um pixel size Fingerprint sensor, Barometer Water and Dust Resistant (IP67 ) USB Type-C audio, 3 microphones Dimensions: 140.93 x 72.97 x 7.5 mm 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11ac (MIMO), Bluetooth 5.0, GPS/ GLONASS, USB Type-C ...
