Nokia launches the Nokia 8. The flagship phone with three 13 Mega-Pixel Cameras with pricing

Could the Nokia 8 signal Nokia’s return to form? Well, it does look like a proper flagship and features some cool camera tricks, in fact, the main selling feature of the Nokia 8 is the camera (or to be accurate, cameras), which should more than cater to people obsessed about photography or content creation.

Even HMD has described the Nokia 8 as the “ultimate device for documenting you life”.

To offer some perspective, HMD global is the Finnish company that acquired the Nokia license around December of 2016 and has already given us phones like the Nokia 3, 5 and 6. All entry level phones, but the Nokia 8 makes this HMD/Nokia’s official foray into Flagship territory since their comeback.

The Nokia 8 has most of the hallmarks of a modern flagship, while continuing the design language of the last 3 models, it has an attractive, slim and all aluminum/aluminium) design with an average thickness of 7.3mm. as far as color options go, it comes in a matte silver, matte blue, polished blue and an eye grabbing polished copper, though, these colors are not wrap around hence only adorn the back of the device, with the front completely blacked out.

Nokia must not be feeling the gargantuan size screens featured on many recent flagship phones like the S8 and LG G6 as the 8 features a modest 5.3 inch quad HD screen, 1440 pixels by 2560 pixels at a PPI of 554 pixels per inch. Needless to say, Nokia could have easily done away with those large bezels and fit a 5.5-5.8inch screen in the same shell.

The Nokia 8 comes with an IP 54 rating meaning it can survive minor here and there splashes but you cannot take it swimming.

It comes with a 2.45 GHZ Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 backed up with a 4Gig RAM. It comes with 64Gigs of internal storage, expandable to 256gig thanks to the inclusion of a memory card slot.

More interesting is the advanced cooling which makes use of a copper pipe and graphite shielding in order to disperse heat evenly across the phone meaning there will not be any noticeable hotspots should you push the phone to do intensive work.

The Nokia 8 is powered by a 3090mAh battery with quick charge 3.0. In terms of software, Nokia is shipping the phone with Android Nougat 7.1.1 and free of bloatware ergo, in future, the 8 will see way quicker updates. Nokia even claims that owning the 8 will be one of the fastest ways to get Android O in your hands.

Camera-wise. The 8 features a trio of 13MP Carl Zeiss lenses. Two on the back; one for color and other for monochrome both combining for a single shot of greater contrast using image fusion technology. And another on the front which is more than adequate for the selfie enthusiast as it features auto focus even. The 8 comes with a cool feature called ‘Bothie’, where you can simultaneously capture video or photo from both the primary and the selfie camera, split down the middle of the display for creative consumption or streamed direct to Facebook live or YouTube right from the camera app.

It is safe to say the Nokia 8 may not be featured on the best looking phones of the year list, but when it comes to dishing out performance and productivity, it is a major contender. All done with it keeping its cool.

The Nokia 8 will be available globally around September 6^th at a price of EUR 599 approximately NGN256k.